i6o EMIL MUNSTERBERG 



the Guild for Crippled Children of the poor, established day 

 schools in which, in addition to elementary instruction, they 

 learn a light handicraft (making cheap toys) and are enabled 

 to earn something at home in their leisure hours. A conveni- 

 ent carriage takes the children to the schools in the morning 

 and returns them to their homes in the afternoon. In the 

 school, in addition to the teacher who is intrusted wdth the care 

 of the sick and with the kindergarten, there is a nurse who 

 washes, massages, bandages, gives necessary care in the dis- 

 pensary or hospital, instructs the parents in methods of dealing 

 with the children, and induces them to furnish necessary 

 treatment. The advantage of this day school over the hospi- 

 tal, apart from the diminution in cost and the easier care for a 

 large number of children, consists in this, that the interest in 

 the children is not taken away from the parents, but they are 

 induced to manifest even greater interest and love. At the 

 beginning it was difficult for the society to bring the children 

 together; the mothers were distrustful of everything that 

 looked like a hospital; hard to persuade because they feared 

 admonition or punishment for the neglect, or of refusal to 

 apply the prescribed treatment. Thus the school in the first 

 year had only twenty pupils, and it was with difficulty that 

 the number was increased. The school now numbers forty 

 five pupils and enjoys general confidence. 



The rooms of the day school are two large instruction 

 rooms, a dining room with adjoining kitchen, and a large 

 clothes room in which are found all necessary appliances for 

 bathing, bandaging, massaging, etc. Benevolent ladies have 

 undertaken to provide food and clothing; they meet the ex- 

 penses required for beds, rolling chairs, carriages, and the like. 

 On the seacoast they have established a summer home for 

 convalescent children. Physicians occasionally visit the 

 institution and assist the teachers by their advice. How 

 essential this kind of treatment is appears from the fact that 

 the Children's Aid society has established two other classes in 

 different localities and projected two new schools. In this 

 connection may be mentioned a law w^hich authorizes the 

 establishment of a state hospital for crippled children, with an 

 appropriation of $15,000. The report from Minnesota says 



