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When she was 25 Patty Smith Hill was running a model kindergarten in Louisville, Ky. Grover Cleveland was President and Lillian Russell was the talk of Broadway. One day, Patty Hill's sister, Mildred, wrote a jingling little tune to which Patty fitted words. They published the song, copyrighted it, and sometimes Patty Hill would sing thus to her kindergarten children...
...drink of beer, turned on the gas jets of the kitchen stove, refused to jump off the icebox. Doctors who will doubtless follow the Woods twins for many a year hope to have this question answered: Will the present differences between Johnny and Jimmy persist as they go through kindergarten, school and workaday life? There has been no scientific evidence one way or another. Professor Frederick Tilney, Dr. McGraw's supervisor in the experiment, last week doubted that Johnny's present advantage would last long...
Died. Hedwig Crusemann Heyl, 84, ''Hindenburg of the Kitchen," pioneer German feminist and kindergarten sponsor; in Berlin. When her husband died in 1889 she flabbergasted her friends by assuming the management of his Charlottenburg dye works, ran it efficiently until her sons came of age, wrote Germany's most popular cookbook, The ABC of the Kitchen...
Last summer a trained nurse named Kathleen E. Hunt quit her job with the Arthur Sunshine Home & Kindergarten for Blind Babies. This is a private institution at Summit, N. J., taking in young blind boarders from New Jersey, New York, Delaware. Pennsylvania, Maryland, Tennessee and Rhode Island. When Miss Hunt left, the institution contained about 40 children, none over twelve. No If ger could she endive, she complained to the New Jersey Commission for the Blind, the cruel ways in which- Superintendent Gladys M. Kraeuter let her blind wards be punished. Miss Hunt also carried her story...
...wornout standards are being stripped away. The little red schoolhouse has given place to an imposing edifice in brick, equipped with swimming pools, hot lunch counters, and the latest thing in classroom furniture. Tedious studies have been sugared over by electric maps, bolls, lantern shows, and similar kindergarten bric-a-brac. Latin and Greek, classic burden to the juvenile scholar's soul, are dying slowly away. After all, they are dead languages, unpractical, and the children do not care for them...