were beautifully sung by one whose will is admirably suited to such sentiment.

"The wee flowers are nodding;

So sleepy they grow

They put on their night caps;
To dreamland they go-
Their play time is ended,

For summer is o'er

They'll sleep 'neath the snowflakes
Till spring comes once more."

The little flowers come from the ground,
At Easter time-at Easter time.
They raise their heads and look around,
At happy Easter time.

And every little bud doth say,

"Be glad and full of joy to-day,
For all that sleeps shall wake again
And spend a long, glad Easter day."

Then waken, sleeping butterflies,

At Easter time-at Easter time-
And spread your golden wings and rise,
At happy Easter time.

And these bright creatures seem to say:
"Be glad," etc, etc.

The happy birds come back again,
At Easter time-at Easter time;
The little streams awake and sing,
At happy Easter time.

And birds and stream together say:
"Be glad," etc., etc.
Music No. 14, MISS SMITH's Songs.
New Words, MISS ANNIE MOORE.

The Delsarte" poisings" represented the nodding flowers; rhythmical arm movements for putting on night cap; while the body gradually relaxed into prostrate kneeling position for the sleeping flowers.

Flowers awakening, the body was raised slowly to an upright kneeling position, with the arms covered above the head for stems and the half-closed hands for flowers.

After the first verse, while several sympathetic chords were played, the head and torse came slowly down to the knees again -this time for the cocoon-and thus remained while the pianist merged the minor chords of fall into the lighter ones of spring. Then the second verse called the butterflies,

and rhythmically they unfolded and stood, with the usual arm movement for butterfly wings. Remaining in one position, a gentle spring on the balls of the feet, together with slight poising, gave lightness and gentle motion.

The usual bird and stream movements followed. All the moves from the beginning to the end were merged, the whole presenting a harmony corresponding to the thoughts of the song.

The graduating exercises of the class of 1890, California Kindergarten Training School, were held on the evening of May 13th, 1890. The occasion was especially pleasant, as it was the tenth anniversary of the organization of the institution, and a reunion of all past classes.

There were thirty-five graduates, nineteen of whom were from San Francisco, one from Colorado, and the remainder from various towns in California.

The work of the class, containing various new features, among others a full exhibit of Miss Marwedel's system of circular drawing, was on view during the evening. The graduating exercises consisted of essays and stories, varied by motion songs and motion poems.

Two stories, "Buzzy, the Bee," and "The Lost Dog," were graphically told by members of the class to an audience all children for the nonce.

The evening closed with brief remarks by Mrs. Sarah B. Cooper, and Hon. Ira G. Hoitt,State Superintendent of Public Instruction. The diplomas were presented by Hon. Horace Davis, President State University.

We should be glad to mention other Training Classes, but we were unable to hear from them in time for this issue. We trust by next year we may hear from every Training Class in the country and across the waters.

I.-Primary.

I. Manual training "puts the whole boy to school," gives a rounded mental and moral development not gained by purely intellectual training.

2. It places training of the hand and eye side by side with book-knowledge. It makes doing as important as thinking.

3. It cultivates and satisfies the child's natural desire to do.

4. Through manual training, principles are illustrated in practice, and abstract thought is supplemented by concrete expression of thought.

5. Manual training "makes the body more completely the servant of the soul."

6. The eye, the hand, the judgment and the executive faculty are trained to work together and assist one another.

7. Manual training teaches a child to investigate, measure, compare, invent.

8. It cultivates habits of accurate observation and close attention, as well as accuracy, order, perseverance.

9. It enforces logical thinking and concentration of thought.

IO. It sets in activity the greatest number of mental powers.

"Next to the virtue, the fun in this world is what we least can spare."-Agnes Strickland.

"A complete education implies the training of the hand in connection with the training of the mind."-James MacAlister.

"Remember that, no matter what you intend to become, you cannot avoid apprenticeship."-Elizabeth Stuart Phelps.

"Education is the cultivation of a just and legitimate familiarity betwixt the mind. and things."-Bacon.

"Everywhere violence produces deceit." -St. Pierre.

"Life is an active principle, and in the child is often expressed in wrong doing for want of right direction and training; it seeks something to do, and left untrained wanders into byways of wrong. This activity must never be suppressed. From the very first. dawn of consciousness this active life force must be respected and directed into the path of a loving obedience to Law and Harmony."

DEAR FRIENDS: You will see that although we have reduced the price of the KINDERGARTEN from $2.00 a year to $1.50, we have increased the number of pages. The coming year articles on the theory of Kindergarten, as taught by Froebel, will be prepared by writers eminent in the work: Baroness Von Marenholtz-Bulow, Mrs. A. H. Putnam, Prof. W. N. Hailmann, Constance McKenzie, the Misses Emily and Frances Lord, and others.

We expect to make a special feature of practical work, endeavoring to demonstrate this beautiful theory of child development in lessons which may be used with the children.

OUR TYPICAL LESSONS are not only useful in the Kindergarten, for which they give suggestions to be carried out, but they are especially valuable for mothers of young children in the home, to enable them to give educational amusement to the restless, mischievous little ones. These lessons are not only talks with the children upon Botany, Natural History, and the every-day lessons of life, which are so vital in the Kindergarten, but they give minute directions in various Occupations.

SUNDAY SCHOOL LESSONS.-A new department in the magazine will begin in the October issue-Practical Primary Sunday School Lessons, prepared by Miss Annie E. Bryan, of Louisville, Ky., who has for the past year taught a Sunday School class, using

Kindergarten methods, and will continue the work the coming year. She is a Kindergarten training teacher of wide repute, and thoroughly understands the art of applying Froebel's principles to Sunday School work.

DELSARTE. The theories of the old French master of physical culture are being thoughtfully considered by the advocates of the new education. Those who have studied his principles see the resemblance of his teaching to that of Froebel, and realize that perfect physical development, as well as perfect intellectual development, must come from within unconsciously. We will endeavor to show the place for Delsarte in the Kindergarten and home, and how it can be applied to preserve the sweet unconsciousness of the child, and still develop the natural graces. We anticipate having papers from Mrs. Frances Stewart Parker, of the Cook County Normal School, Ill., also from Anna Payson Call, of Boston.

MUSIC.-The music should be the inspiration of the home and the Kindergarten. Often too little thought is spent upon a proper method of developing this very important accomplishment rather is it a necessity-"for sad is he who has not music in his soul." Miss May Hofer, for many years one of W. L. Tomlins' prominent teachers, also teacher of singing in the Free Kindergarten and the Chicago Kindergarten Training Classes, is engaged to contribute. a series of articles. She not only under

stands the theory of teaching music according to Mr. Tomlins' ideas, but she is a practical Kindergartner, enabling her to apply this knowledge to very young children.

SCIENCE LESSONS.-The articles in the KINDERGATEN of last year speak for the work of Prof. Edward G. Howe. However, his plan for the coming year seems to be more satisfactory than that of last. He will endeavor to cover less ground more thoroughly. He will take up botany, entomology and geology in their simplest forms. He will give the lessons more in detail, as though he were talking to the children, instead of the teacher, thus each lesson will be a story in itself. What could be more like a fairy tale than his "Morning Glory Lesson" in this issue?

OUR NURSERY.-This department has been desired by many for some time. The way did not seem clear to establish it until this year. Now we feel prepared to give our mothers what they so much needproper occupation for the little fingers which are forever pulling at Mamma's work and seeking for something to do. Articles will be given upon the discipline of the child, showing how to control him naturally and easily, with no friction either to mother or child. How he may be led, not forced, into right doing and feeling, and he must have the feeling before the doing. Mothers who have had practical experience will contribute to this department.

STORIES will be a very important feature .of our magazine. We fully realize that more truth may be conveyed by means of a pleasing story, than by cramming the young mind with dry abstract facts. We will endeavor to have stories that contain the vital principles of Grimm and Andersen, minus the objectionable features.

A PRIMARY DEPARTMENT will soon be established which will show the transition period of the child's development from the Kindergarten into the primary school, giving

really connecting class work, filling up the gulf which is now so apparent between the Kindergarten and primary school, demonstrating how the Kindergarten must prepare the way for the primary work, and how the primary school may carry on the work the Kindergarten began. We will give in this theoretical articles as well as practical work.

We hope our readers, each and all, will take a personal interest in the advancement of our magazine. You see what an effort, we are making to produce the best, upon most reasonable terms. Our wish is to extend the knowledge of Froebel's teaching, and each one of our subscribers has a responsibility in this matter. You cannot be interested in the reading matter presented to you, without having a desire to benefit mankind, therefore speak of us and help us to get into as many homes as you can.

Hoping you will not only be one of us, but will help many others to be of our number, I am,

Yours, very sincerely,

CORA L. STOCKHAM.

DEAR KINDERGARTEN:

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I do not know why I am writing you, unless it is because I keep feeling grateful every time my little magazine comes, and I have been increasingly glad, for it is so solid full of good, helpful things, ideas and suggestions, rather than the literal directions; for sometimes among a great number of things mentioned scarcely one thing is in the least familiar to my children. Unsightly limestone walls, high on each side of the narrow, filthy streets, what can the familiar (to us) aspect of an American city mean to

The articles of clothing, household utensils, implements used in the trades, forms of greeting and polite expression and terms of thought-all seem extremely different. Some of their customs and their modes of dress are far more desirable than ours, I think, such as the flowing robes of the men,

the graceful gestures and expressions of greeting and farewell. But I cannot begin to enumerate the vital help this or that article has brought to me. I read them all, even though others of my periodicals have to lie unread month after month. Sometimes I make use of some of the studies in principles with my Normal Class of girls, though when the article has been translated from German to English a second translation from English to Arabic, the language of this region, is apt to make one wish for the original. The Arabic seems more like German than English in various of its forms of expression; but for the most part the whole way of thinking seems quite different from that of the western section of mankind.

But I intended to tell you several things about the little school-I cannot presume to call it "Kindergarten" as yet. The weaving is a favorite Occupation, but it takes so long and seems to need a teacher almost for every child, that I can seldom take time for it. I wonder if some one has found how to expedite it, and still secure good, beneficial results? And the mounting, pasting their work in the books, is another time-consuming process. Our average attendance is thirty, and I have one assistant.

Sincerely, MARIA G. NUTTING. Mardin, Turkey.

DEAR FRIENDS:-Whenever you hear or see a sentence which expresses much in a few words, relative to child culture, please send it to us. Many times light comes to us through these aphorisms, which lengthy articles would fail to give.

MR. DENTON delivered a course of lectures to the Kindergartners of St. Louis upon Spiritual Significance of Grimm's Fairy Tales, pointing out the good and beautiful there is contained in so many of them, and showing them what to select and

how they, as teachers, may make practical use of them and their teachings in their work with the little ones.

NO JULY AND AUGUST numbers were published, as "announced," in our June issue. We consider it best to take a vacation, and also give our readers one, during the two warmest months in the year. We realize that few Kindergartners are teaching during the summer, and prefer to keep their minds off from Kindergarten duties; and parents do not care for instruction for the little ones during the season when Nature is the best teacher.

Thus we have established the custom of omitting the July and August issues, and have reduced the price of the subscription. from $2.00 a year to $1.50, at the same time adding sixteen pages of valuable

matter.

WANTED.-May, July, and August, 1889, KINDERGARTENS; later ones exchanged for them. Send postal cards, giving full address.

MISS ELIZABETH HARRISON, Principal of the Chicago Kindergarten Training School, is in Berlin, Germany, with Frau Schrader. She is expected home Sept. 1st, and will be ready to open her Training Class. She resigns her work with the children for this year, devoting her entire time to her class and her mother's meetings.

I shall spend a few days in Boston, New York and Philadelphia, the last of September and the first of October.

I hope to meet many of the Kindergartners and expect to receive inspiration which will prove a benefit to our readers.

C. L. S.

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