New-York tribune., 1908-09-17
KINDERGARTEN STUDY
Mrs. Carl Clemens to InUesttgdfe
Methods Here.

urs Carl Clemens wife OF the professor OF tneoI-
oo- In Bonn University who IS in New York win
her husband on their way to Chicago "Hele "
Clemens will give a series of lectures ihslsls INC
she Is not at all the kindergarten speeIan
lss been called She is just the wife OF her nus
band. ., ~,
..TIer speciaIty is cooking and housekeeping DE-
Clemens said. laughing
..Oh I cannot cook" she protested
Dr Clemens however insisted that she could and
that he was the prsof. Mrs. Clemens. who Is quite
,oung and slender with brown eyes ana PINK
cheeks has studied kindergartenng, II she mas not
taught.
in the Comenius Seminar at Bonn' schoOi
for the higher education Of women, we must rear"
In the first year how to teach in the kihoeI-
esrten >, she said 1T is the only school In Ger
many where kindergartening is taught FroeOei -
not thought of there, in his home, as he is IN amer
lea and England 1 am told that here you nave :
kindergarten in nearly every school In Germany
we just beginning to have tnein' anu 50 Aa
most of them private. .
And the methods followed are not fToeoei ,,
said Dr. Clemens II do not know why EroeDei is
so little initiated in Germany, only that a prophet
Is not without honor. in his own country
What is the method in our kndergartens! OiiS
games plays for the children"
while in FroebeFs method everything the emit
dren do has its purpose" said Mrs. Clemens Inal
is the method 1 have studied You ask II shal'
teach? Oh, no. In Germany married women 90
not WOrk OUTSIDE tnelT HOHicS- II ID AAON
1 do not know how 1t is said in Englsh-it IS not
thought well that they should
Married not permitted to teacn IN
Germany II is considered that they have their
homes their children to attend TO. That also Is
a work in itself" said Dr. Clemens, with simplicity.
But unmarried women work-oh. yes There ara
one million more women than men In Germany
and one-teuth of the do not marry, so you see
that women are constrained to work You see them
in the shops they work the fields. they carry the
hod We have no woman lawyers or ministers YET
he said, laughing.
But this year the universities OF Germany are 70
be opened to women said Mrs. Clemens.
I'VE have much to learn of America In regard to
co-education,' her husband said, Il believe IL Is a
good thing-in some schools and some studies And
the coming together socially in schools would have
only a good influence on young men and women.
Women should be allowed to study anything they
desire if they have the capacity
Interest in athletics, DR.. and Mrs. Clemens said,
had grown very much since the present Emperor 3
reign Twenty years ago there little OF It.
Now, football. tennis. many other games are popu-
lar, and it is Emperor who has made them So
During their stay in Chicago Dr. Clemens will
take Professor E D. Burton's place as lecturer In
the school of divinity of the university. and Mrs
Clemens will study kindergartens-
II have been asked TO write article about
them" she explained. When we return 70 New
York in February I hope TO visit your kinder
gartens here We arrived only yesterday, so
we have not seen much OF New York. only your
streets-such busy streets. Why. it is dangerous
to cross OF thenr'