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Identifier: newenglandmagazi1900bost (find matches)
Title: The New England magazine
Year: 1887 (1880s)
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Publisher: Boston : (New England Magazine Co.)
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nd yet not oneof them looks forward to it for him-self. In the three big kitchens for thebuildings the children shell peas, parepotatoes, wash dishes, and do simplecooking. Here as in the laundry thereare matches in skill and swiftness. Anironing match often furnishes anevenings entertainment. Long before the children are readyto enter even the kindergarten, they the barnyard and to cluck and crow.Toy kitchen stoves and tea sets fur-nish a dolls tea party, impartingknowledge of the names and purposesof everyday objects. Such exerciseswould be needless for normal childrenof ten years, the average age of thosein this class. The recognition of different piecesof wood by their shapes constitutesan advanced lesson. The instructorholds up a longitudinal bit, and witha seraphic grin and a chuckle of de-light, a boy matches it from the pilelying on the table, while another childtries to make asquare piece fita circular one,and becomeswofully dis-turbed thereat,—a hopefulsign. Whendo you see
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AT WORK IN THE SEWING ROOM AND LAUNDRY, are practised in sense training in theclassrooms of the dormitories. Froma glass case filled with toys the teachertakes out a miniature hen. Haveyou any feet? she asks of the gaping,wondering group before her. Mostof them do not know. What do youeat with? she next inquires. Thenthey know; and she talks about thehens bill, its eggs and chickens, as herpupils learn to recognize pictures of stars? is asked, as a star-shapedpiece of wood is held up. Oftenit is two or three months beforethere is any comprehension of thisquestion. An unusually bright boy,when asked to find a ball like the oneshown him, found its double on adumb-bell. Earlier than all this teaching and itsaccompanying moral lessons is thehand training. Put your hands to- EDUCATION OF THE FEEBLE-MINDED. gether; put your fingers in and out;put hands in a circle; clap them; putup thumb; close other fingers; openthem; wiggle them! This last theylove to do. For each of these simpleexercises

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