already acquired for the right teaching and training of the
young, so that they may grow up and develop into happy, self-supporting
men and women, diffusing happiness to all around, themselves happy in
proportion to the happiness they cause.

_THE SCHOOL._

Upon the organization and arrangement of the school largely depends the
success of the educator. Two things must be borne constantly in mind.
First, to create truthful and intellectual atmosphere, where wisdom,
honor, and knowledge can be inhaled as with the breath, and second, to
make the school cheerful and attractive in every way possible. We must get
rid of the idea now generally prevailing among children, that the school
is to be resorted to with regret and escaped from with pleasure.

So soon as the child will look at and become interested in pictures and
toys, and will listen to tales and little stories, it can profitably be
introduced in the school, the first department of which should be the
Infant-school, or, as the Germans so aptly term it, the children's garden,
or Kinder Garten.

Here plaiting, modelling, and building, with simple object lessons for the
older infants, develop their powers of observation, and give employment
and impart skill to little fingers which might else be engaged in
destroying furniture or clothes, or in pilfering from the sugar-bowl.
Practical familiarity with the properties of lines, angles, circles,
spheres, cylinders, cubes, cones, and the conic sections will be acquired,
which will give a life and reality to the geometrical studies which will
occupy them in their school career. Dancing and singing will relieve the
tedium of sitting, shake off the surplus energy, give rest to the body,
and power, time, and tune to the voice. Models of houses, stores,
workshops, kitchens, farms, and factories, which later on they will assist
in making, will be a source alike of amusement and instruction.

In the children's garden no teacher should have charge of more than about
twelve children, who should regard her as their mother-teacher, while she
should seek to win the love and confidence of the little ones as the
beginning of her work.

Each class of twelve should have their own special room, while for general
purposes, such as music, drilling, gymnastic exercises, games, tableaux,
and exhibitions of the magic lantern, the oxyhydrogen microscope, the
stereopticon, and the like, they should assemble in a large hall. The
details