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center of supply for the whole school or some collections may serve 

 many schools. Why not have a "loan" museum in connection 

 with the library? Lantern slides may well serve large sections, 

 why not other things as well ? Each room always has something 

 from this central supply and can get something different whenever 

 desired. Here all plants can be gathered and cared for during 

 vacations. This one room can have extra heat for zero nights. 

 Both these elements are so discouraging at present to ambitious 

 teachers. Of course for all this there is a director, who can give 

 lessons or help any teacher in preparation. Her greatest work 

 is as helper. 



Would you like to stay a while and watch the children working 

 at their tables? While you are here, some child may come in 

 with flies for the turtle. Would you be surprised if it were one 

 of "your own" most troublesome boys, coming in quietly and say- 

 ing in a suppressed voice, "Miss , I got a fly for the turtle?" 



He will be very careful, for he wants to see the turtle snap at the 



fly. Miss smiles understandingly, for she has seen this 



happen many times. She knows that this boy will watch the 

 turtle enjoy his meal, all unconscious that here is something that 

 carries him out of himself and away from his usual teasing ways. 

 He is too busy to be "bad" here. 



The director, Miss , can give her thought and energy 



to the care of all these interesting things, for this is her work. 

 She is a "special teacher," trained in the various sciences, and more 

 than that she is one with so deep a love for all of them that to hear 

 her say, "See the flowers on that elm tree," is to look with interest 

 at an object up to this time "merely a tree." Not alone in the care 

 of her special room is she a help, but in having charge of the school 

 garden or in the planting of bulbs. Besides this, she is one with 

 authority, who can co-operate with the park officers. When the 

 gardens in our park systems are prepared for winter, many plants 

 are destroyed that would make very attractive flower boxes in 

 our schools. Often in the re-arrangements of beds, shrubs are 

 taken out that would be given to the schools were there any 

 definite person in charge to give them attention. Here we have 

 a great field for the correlation of our city parks and schools. 



How much richness we can thus add to the lives of the children. 

 We would lay the foundation for a much deeper appreciation of 



