Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 



THE VILLAGE PUMP IN THE PHILIPPINES 



This Ifugao mother has brought her baby to the bamboo water tube for a drink, and per- 

 haps a bath. Water is piped from the heights in this manner and is not impure unless it has 

 drained rice terraces higher up. 



Other regions become equally vivid. 

 Washington is not a black dot in a tiny 

 yellow square, where an unknown quan- 

 tity called the Government makes laws ; 

 but it is its own true self — a city of 

 beautiful parks and wide streets, of 

 stately buildings and historic monuments, 

 a capital city of which any girl or boy 

 can be proud. 



So the pictures bring the maps to life, 

 and we find the children locating coun- 

 tries, rivers, and lakes, with a personal 

 interest in each. Let us trace throughout 

 the schools this fundamental change in 

 geography teaching that has come about 

 through pictures. Let us see how they 

 give new life to the work from primary 

 through grammar grades. 



GEOGRAPHY EOR THE PRIMARY CLASS 



Xo child needs to learn to read before 

 he can know of the world beyond his 

 horizon. He can have his geography les- 

 sons from the beginning. He no longer 

 uses the laborious path of the printed 



page or even depends upon the clever 

 oral pictures that the teacher is supposed 

 to be able to give about ''Little .Indian, 

 Sioux or Crow," or "Little frosty Eski- 

 mo." He now has innumerable pictures 

 of far-away folks. He sees the Eskimo 

 father at his hunting, the mother in her 

 fur clothing, and the children with their 

 toys. 



At Thanksgiving time, when the stories 

 of Pilgrim life and adventure arouse in- 

 terest in the Indian, he learns how the red 

 children live. In the spring the pictures 

 tell him about his little black and brown 

 brothers, who romp and play where the 

 sun is high in the sky at noon and where 

 no snow falls. By the same happy pic- 

 ture path he learns of the lives of chil- 

 dren in England and Holland, in far- 

 away China and Japan. 



PICTORIAL PHYSICAL GEOGRAPHY 



But, meanwhile, as he grows his in- 

 terest broadens. Suddenly he wants to 

 know where the brook comes from, what 



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