paratively undivided, and, except where the most expensive 

 real estate demands business buildings to tower skyward, 

 none are too costly to furnish the ground upon which our 

 kindergartens shall be founded. Let us insist at the very 

 outset of our movement upon the proper reservation, and 

 nothing will prevent us from securing for our children what, 

 through them, will redound to far more benefit to the land 

 than the most gorgeous improvement we could devise. 



The kindergarten as I design it is not an ideal. It is a 

 composition of everyday facts, the attainment of which is a 

 matter of principle, not of effort. One hundred foot frontage 

 of a lot of average depth is the proper size for our grounds, 

 whether such be a part of some school grounds or laid out 

 by itself. Every other lot of less acreage is a makeshift. Our 

 improvement must impress as a home, and as such, requires 

 neither a board fence nor a hedge as a barrier. The house 

 should be of rural design, perhaps with wide eaves and 

 shingled, or of plaster work. The ground floor should be taken 

 up by the schoolrooms, and the upper story, or half story, 

 by the living rooms of the kindergartner. Whoever is in 

 charge of the premises has to make her home in them. Do 

 not attempt to impress a child with the sanctity of home in 

 spaces which chill from lack of a cheering voice. I speak 

 of a woman when referring to the kindergartner. Children 

 of the age of four to six years are to be associated here, and 

 at that time they need a woman as caretaker. It needs her 

 endless patience, her ever ready care to rear the child. On a 

 one-hundred foot lot three class rooms can find accommodation 

 and playgrounds. Aside from accustomed use our grounds 



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