Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition

IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING. 123 and as these schools were under the care of female teachers, a body of experienced women, were ready to take charge of the primary schools when they were established, thus introducing the employ- ment of women as teachers, which forms so marked a feature in our schools. The charity schools also helped to correct the EMBROIDERED BROCADE AFTER TAMBOUR WORK OF MARIE ANTOINETTE. Designed by Lady Henry Grosvenor. England. inequality in the education of boys and girls, as they were in most instances established by ladies for girls only. While speaking of primary education. I should mention its last development in the “ Kindergarten,’’ which was begun in Boston, from whence it has spread over the country. Miss Elizabeth P. Peabody, whose life has been devoted to education, first introduced Froebel’s system into this country by a small kindergarten, estab- lished in Boston in 1861. Mrs. Pauline Agassiz Shaw established and supported for fifteen years sixteen free kindergartens, which