New-York tribune., 1916-07-06
Garden Basement Is Filled
with Exhibits of In
tereSt to Many.
BOY SCOUTS SHOW
"SHOOT THE CHUTES"
Red Flowers and Garters Of Ma
tiOnal Child Labor Committee
Appeal to Visitors.

After the general sessions at Madison
Square Garden n. +. A. members re-
treat into the subtorranean regions
where there is an exhibit Of apparatus
and textbooks of interest to teachers.
They emerge after making the rounds
laden with pamphlets, samples and
smiles.
There are objects Of interest to
teachers IN klndergartens, teachers IN
high school. in college and in business
schools. The college professor has
been espied just as fascinated by the
cubes and colored squares OF the Mon
tessori exhibit as was the kindergarten
teacher; and the kindergarten teacher
has been observed 10 show the same
pleasure in playing with typewriters as
her business schoo! colleague.
Boy scouts are ever willing to de-
monstrate the virtue Of the most mod
ern games for children. The inclined
plane is their favorite resort. Its
shoot the chutes without the water and
you slide on your breeches," they ex-
plain.
Sanitary drinking fountain and school
chairs that will insure straight backs
attract much attention.
Labor Exhibit OF interest
Perhaps the exhibit Of the National
Child Labor Committee is the most
popular of all Gaudy red flowers that
are made by little girl who always
coughs" and garters which are the
product of another child who has for
gotten her ambitions and resigns her
self to future of Just making gar
tres" interest the educators who have
come TO the city to learn.
The latest methods of teaching geog-
raphy are shown by exhibits of numcr-
Gus maps One encyclopedia on view
at the Garden has, with great fore
thought. extra pages provided for the
insertion of new maps. There is a new
device for teaching the changes in the
position Of the sun in the different sea-
sons, and the change in the angle OF the
earth in relation TO the sun. When the
earth is reduced TO the size OF Dig
ball and an electric light represents the
sun the problem is reduced TO It's low
est terms.
81 simply had to take the whole after,
noon off to see all these things SAID
one teacher. at is impossible to take
all in at glance"
Many teachers saunter into the eX-
hibit each day for a short time and thus
hope 10 get all the way around before
they return to their homes.
Some new wrinkles in education are
systems of penmanship teaching when
offer courses free to y. +. A. members.
There is a shorthand method OF tyne
writing and courses in stenography
that are still shorter.
One of the features in education the
exhibit tries TO emphasize is the use or
moving pictures for school work. IL IS
not only for study, but also for recrea-
ton that they are TO be used IN the
schoolroom. For story telling rs well
as for geography and science, the NOV
ing picture machine is TO be OF service
TO the educator
Printing Samples Shown.
Samples Of printing done by boys IN
the public schools Of New York are on
view and the boys themselves are there
10 demonstrate how they do IT. some
fine specimens of wood block printing
are hung on the wall
Teachers with a hobby for notebooks
and systematic filing find great delight
i'm the wide assortment of notebook COW
orc pummed labels and notebooks dr.