Newark post., 1919-12-24

vine music. The winds played through the trees and
the morning stars sang together
Always after labor rests 1t is the law. God
would have it So At the close of day, little Jimmy
Wren sits above his nest and sings. All day tire
less wings he has carried food for the little family
safely sheltered in the nest His work DONE he pours
out his content and satisfaction and thankfulness in
music that makes glad his soul and all those who
hear him.
The Working man, home from the toll of the day.
reaches for the old book that carries him for from
the things that weary the body and lifts up his soul
until it sings out its joy and satisfaction and content
The new shcoo educates the child for the enjoy
ment of leisure The children must have the inspira-
ton of the great masters. That is their heritage.
They must know the work of those ahead of them
and follow them as they struggle, each to express
the bit of God in his soul.
The nation whose schools had forgotten this,
died, for it had forgotten God
Does the school haze real recreation or only
"erercise?"
The playground in the new school is great place
It is big The growing child needs space and the feel
ing of space There are shade and water and toilet
facilities There are plenty of places to wash ones
hands There for the little and spaces
apart for the boys and for the girls games
There swings and slides and courts and sand heaps,
and balls and bats and everything else that children
want to play with.
The formal exercises-those awful things that
you do when you stand in line and jerk your arms
The cassrooms are attractive. The furniture is
and legs to the musical howl of the instructors, One
two one twO not play and not really particularly
useful. "Play, DR. Gulick used to say, lis the fun
Of the soul"
The JuIding ought to be place that children love.
In the old-time school building the seats
screwed TO the floor that child must stay where
he was put The walls were bare, the windows
high. The sanitary fittings like the morals of
the old kings court-''he less said about them the
better" The playground a bit of outdoors
badly treated.
The new building is beautiful 1t is low,
spreading structure. 1t has many windows that let
in the sunlight and air. They placed so that the
children and teacher may rest their eyes by looking
through them.
The building is cool in summer and heater in
winter There are toilets and bathrooms spotIess
in their purity that child feels cleaner just by
looking at them.
There is kitchen and a dining room. There is
room for the and the doctor. Children should
be inspected daily for their protection and their
neighbors'. They are weighed and measured and the
head of the luncheon notified if they do not
gain as they should Her business is to furnish the
right diet
shops in the schools shops for the boys and shops
for the girls. The boys may take the work in the
girls shops and the girls may take the work in the
boys shops, if they wish, and the teachers and par
ents approve.
There is a print shop and woodworking shop,
a pottery a studio for drawing and one for music.
There is a sewing and dramatic room; science
laboratories and moving pictures; fine auditorium
that parents as well as children There is piano
wherever is needed and phonograph wherever
the piano will not serve. There is library and a
game room There is garden
There wonderful shops in the schools
shops for the boys and shops for the girls The boys
may take the work in the girls shops and the girls
may take the work in the boys shops, if they wish
and the teachers and parents approve.
pretty and the children may move it about. Light
chairs that suit the height of the children and tables
that will seat group the thing.
Are yOu AFRAID the child wW be 'SpOIed?'
You draw back at the picture and fear pulls at
your heart "The child will be spoiled That is
what the Pilgrim Fathers said when the schools of
their country launched Heat in the school build
ing? The children would be weakened and coddIed
shamefully Music? The Vaccinations of the Devil
Singing games? Lghtness and frivolity
Don't you see? The New School for the Ne,c