New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1915-04-13
Ordinary Child Eager
When Three FRS" Are
Taught Like Games.
MADE EASY
NEVER FORGOTTEN
Glass for Mothers Will Be Start
ed at Miss Reads Mother
craft School.
By HENRIETTA RODMAN.

I cnlI0 NOnutf, 49,
;rteresting and remarkable person
than her daughter. Young Winifred
has manifested thus far a marvellous
capacity for absorbing information. but
her mother is creative artist. ! was
extremely skeptical yesterday when
went to the Plaza to meet Mrs. Stoner.
what can YOU do for an ordinary
child" | asked Mrs. Stoner.
make him happy said Mrs
Stoner promptly; bring him to inter
esting and delightful things and an
swer his questions. That's all.
"You can teach geography as you 60
from ore room to another, talking OF
the imaginary things you see and max
ing jingles about them.
ITO Tasmania we sail. we sail,
See the kangaroo with funny tail
We used to sing, and then we'd hop
like kangaroos.
"'To Tasmania we fly, we fly,
Where the wheat is growing so high
and we stretched our arms above our
heads.
Children never forget things learned
like that, and they love to learn them. y
How do you teach arithmetic? !
asked.
by all kinds OF number games
parchesi Dice. domlnos, playing store. ~
"And reading"
81 read a child some story he loves
to hear Peter Rabbit, for instance.
"Of course. he wants to look on the
book with me. After a few minutes |
stop.
''That's p say. Then I show him
a typewriter. IF you can find F. say,
you - >Lrike it with one finger. Or
course, he loves 20 do that, and when
he sees that he has written the letter
he is wild with delight.
After children have worked at one
thing for fifteen minutes ! always dis
tract their attention to something else.
Thus their interest is kept fresh.
Every mother can teach her child
Mrs. Stoner repeated emphatically. II
expect to have a class for mothers at
Miss Reade's Mothercraft School"
In a report which will De submitted
TO the Board of Education at its meet
ing tomorrow the superintendent
point out that the school appropriation
is 30 meaCre this year that II is certain
that the funds necessary for the sum
mcr schools and Fairgrounds cannot be
gathered from surplus accounts for
other activities.
/; is not possible 60 use any of the
recreation centre appropriation, as that
item was reduced 90 per cent. The SUI
perintendents are convinced that it
would not be advisable TO discontinue
the summer schools.
The report takes up TIE suggestion
that the regular day school teachers be
employed without extra compensation,
and discards it As unwise.
rI g Let i- 10
20 work in the right way TO secure the
cooperation of the teachers. II Is sim
ply creating antagonism so strong and
becoming so well organized that It is
likely to prove dangerous to the reform
administration.
at is a maxim with suburban pro
moters that when a street begins TO go
wrong nothing can save il. Let cheap
buildings and dirty tenants get start
and it's all up with high grade pro-
posals.
school growth has some striking
parallels to this. No 3. in Brooklyn
Gas in a declining district when Will
lam OLeary was elected principal The
erection of a modern building was Sc
cured amid ominous head shakings by
the wise ones. No. has now a more
compete equipment OF shops, kitchens,
laboratories, play spaces and all around
facilities than any other elementary
school in the greater city. II cannot
accommodate the children who from
outside its district apply for member
snip.
Lower Manhattan as a high school
district was subjected 20 the same
negative prophecy. II would not pay TO
build nigh schools in it. The beautiful
Hebrew Technical School for Girls. on
Second Avenue and Fifteenth Street
would prove a white elephant; the
Stuyvesant High School would be a
failure; a Washington Irving building
for $500 girls would remain half filed
Now these schools are overcrowded day
and night. The new Julia Richman
High School is filed. Prophecy as to a
declining neighborhood is poor guess
ing.
The Chelsea neighborhood, asking
for a modern school, has little reason
to give up trying. y. ON"
Miss Katherine Blake is the leader
OF group of women teachers who have
issued the following statement:
I'VE do hereby organize the Teach
ers' Branch Of the Empire State cam
paign committee for the purpose of
r furtherng the cause of woman suffrage
, and especially for the purpose of secur-
ins the franchise for the teachers of
y York City,