can and should servo as day nursery for the neighborhood. 

 There may not be a woman near who is forced to work out 

 and leave, during such time, the care of her children to 

 others, but many a mother would gladly embrace the op- 

 portunity to leave her little ones in such surroundings when 

 duty calls her from home. The kindergartner requires 

 assistance, and her associates, as they are trained for the 

 work, are the proper ones to attend such cases during non- 

 school hours. 



I have nothing to suggest towards the teachings in the 

 schoolroom. My purpose is to exemplify how our task of 

 forming the child's mind can be rendered easier and more 

 correct. I want to do such through the agency of outdoor 

 exercise amongst plants and flowers, and I give a list of those 

 which are the most important, mentioning also some which 

 are to be avoided. The connection between plant-life and 

 human-life is fully as intimate as people demonstrate every 

 day. It is for a good reason that at the birthday of friends 

 we express our wishes through flowers. We know that 

 our sympathy for the bedridden is more tenderly worded 

 through the language of blossoms. And when the end 

 has come to those dear to us, we bedeck them with the 

 choicest flowers we are able to procure from garden and field. 

 We compare a man to an oak, a woman to a birch, a girl to 

 a lily, a boy to a weed. This surely has foundation in reason. 

 Yet, the teacher shall not attempt to explain any of 

 the habits of those plants with which I insist the child 

 should be surrounded. Some of those habits are not yet 

 understood; others are -not comprehensible for a child; 



