The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1913-11-03

I the denatured Mother Goose freseoess
bless his human boy black eyei For in
those pictures, Mrs speer and Mrs. Van
Pelt both assured me. the ethical atmos-
phere of the higher thought was prevail
ent. as they explained.
Our intent is to have the little ones
imbibe ideas that are not ' filed with
! horror to the childish mind"
So 1t is that Jack and Jill are shown
at the fountain, merry and gay. and no
falling down with Jack breaking his
crown and Jill coming tumbiing after
Little Bo-Peep has not lost her sheep
in these denatured Mother Goose pic
tures. Here Cinderella is not in rags. but
in her golden COACH AS the prospectus
Of the prophylactic playroom states:
THE same beloved Mother Goose folk
are used as motif for the wall panels,
and the accompanying verses are of the
lived happily ever after kind Old Mother
Hubbard doesn't find her cupboard bart.
but full of pies and eookiesl'
The prospectus further states that all
this win encourage the children to ex-
press freely the natural happy tendencies
of their divine rights"
BY this time the parents and the
higher thought women and other grown
ups had lost their shyness and were play
ing with the sanitary toys. All these
toys We're of wood or metal. There was d
wooden crow on wheels that all the wom-
en- thought too cute for anything.
At this point one of the child prison
ers in the corner asked il he could play
with the sanitary train of cars IIe~was
told he must wait till his elders were
through playing with it.
Here is the box of sanitary sea sand
said Mrs. Speer. opening the bathroom
door and disclosing box about TIRES
feet square filed with sand. 1T will be
baked every day, or elsa treated with ger
mi7ides. and thus will be thorL ghiy. stsr-
ilized for the little ones.
Tea was now announced. and was served
to the grownups ON the sanitary play
table. There was cake and ice cream too:
and the children in the corner and white
gloves were permitted to have some Hur-
rah for happy childhood and its careless
golden flours
1.-THE floor covering is of denim in u
green tint not trying to chitdren's eyes,
Sdlu one woman. |BeS1ues, uenlm Is ln-
expensive, and can be removed and re-
placed In case micro-organisms are sus-
peeted.'
You see," remarked Mrs. Edgar Lacey
Speer, ''the toys are all metal tr wood
and are thoroughly sterilzed. We have
banished the woolly lamb. the fuzzy Ted
dy bear and all sorts of wooLy dogs, cats
and playthings in which germs ana mi
erobes might Turk. Our care is for the
body as we'll as mental consciousness. M
pictures or games that might cause pain
or unpleasant suggestions to the child
mind will be permitted here. The games
will all be an instructive order, to develop
the child faculties to what is sweet.
true, beautiful and good.
'The harmony OF colors will have their
sub-conscious influence to inculcate a love
Of artistic surroundings-In fact. the
Mother Goose frescoes by Leo H. Junker
arc so thoroughly artistic that an ordi-
nary painter doing the wood work ex-
pressed it as his opinion that the pie
lures would look all right after they were
finished"
what do you think of 1t, Lacey, dear2
Have you any questions to ask asked
a higher thought woman of the child.
"Yes!" said the boy eagerly. Let me
see where the painter spilled the white
paint on the floor. I'll bet it was a great
! big splosh.''