intment. At the last meeting (in
January) seventy of the eighty-five paid up members were present,
intelligent, eager, interested, participating heartily in the
discussions. It has cost years of labor, but these mothers have reached
the point where they can talk intelligently about the children and their
needs.

"Only yesterday," said Miss Phelps, Kindergarten Director, "one mother
said to me: 'I used to be the most impatient woman with my children--I
simply couldn't stand it when they refused to do what I told them. The
other day my mother said to me, "You're about the most patient woman I
ever saw. What's done it?" And I said to her: "Well, mother, I do not
know of anything except those folks at the kindergarten, which all
helped me to look at children in a very different way."'"

Through the Mothers' Meetings the mothers have come to feel that they
are co-operating with the teacher and the school. Those mothers who have
children in the upper grades as well as in the kindergarten go to the
grade teachers too, seeking advice, or making suggestions. They have
learned to feel that they are an essential part of the educational
plan, and their enthusiastic interest tells of the advantages gained by
this co-operation.

The Oyler Mothers' Club has been the center of the movement to clear up
the community. Through them and through the grades refuse has been
cleaned and kept from the streets. The club maintains, out of its fund,
a medicine chest at the school, which is used by the visiting nurse. It
has cleaned up the children, and that is no small item.

"Back in 1904," says Mr. Voorhes, "I had five hundred of the children
vaccinated in my office, and such dirt and vermin I never saw! Nearly
every child had the high water mark on his wrist, and their clothes and
bodies were filthy. They didn't know a bathtub from a horse trough; they
don't now for the matter of that, because there are scarcely a dozen
houses in this section that have bathtubs, but the children are clean."

Each year the old members of the Mothers' Club bring in the new mothers,
saying to Miss Phelps: "This is my mother, I brought her," "This is
mine!" with a delighted satisfaction in having added something to the
club. The kindergarten, filling two rooms, is thriving, and the
kindergarten teachers, visiting and advising in the home, are cordially
welcomed everywhere.

VIII The Disappearance of "Discipline"

"Discipline," smiled Mr. Voorhes, "no, we