Art and Handcraft in the Woman's Building
of the World's Columbian Exposition
Forfatter: Maud Howe Elliott
År: 1893
Forlag: Goupil & Co.
Sted: Paris and New York
Sider: 287
UDK: gl. 061.4(100) Chicago
Chigaco, 1893.
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IN THE WOMAN’S BUILDING.
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Buffalo, a member of the Board of Women Managers of New York.
Miss Love is carrying on a model creche. A large, light, and airy
room is devoted to the creche. In this is demonstrated the most
healthful, comfortable, and rational system of dressing and caring
for young children.
Short lectures are given upon their food, clothing, and sleeping
arrangements, and in connection with the creche there is an exhi-
bition of infants’ clothing of all nations and times, their cradles,
and other furniture.
As the child grows and its mental faculties develop, the kinder-
garten succeeds the creche; in the gracious atmosphere of its
intelligent training the child-nature expands and develops sym-
metrically. This department of child-life is demonstrated in the
most complete manner.
The kindergarten under this management is fitted up in the
most attractive manner. All the latest apparatus necessary to the
best exposition of the work has been provided. Little children
developing daily their intellectual and moral faculties uncon-
sciously, by means of the most fascinating entertainments, will be
an object-lesson of great practical value to mothers and others
having the care of children.
Closely allied to the kindergarten is the kitchengarden. Miss
Emily Huntington of New York, the founder of this system of
education, conducts a kitchengarden, where classes of little folks
are taught the useful arts of homekeeping. In so interesting and
delightful a manner are sweeping, dusting, bedmaking, and cook-
ing taught, that what might otherwise be an irksome task to chil-
dren becomes an amusing recreation.
For older children there will be a school for slojd, supported by
Mrs. Quincy Shaw, and conducted by Gustav Larsson. Here an
exhibit of wood-carving may be seen.
Physical development is aptly illustrated by the North Ameri-
can Turner-Bund. These interesting classes will inspire many a
lad to seek after that physical perfection that was the pride of the
Greeks and Romans.
Mrs. Clara Doty Bates, chairman, of the committee on literature
for children of the Congress Auxiliary, has charge of the library,
.and has fitted it up tastefully, providing a full supply of children’s
literature. A large number of portraits of the most eminent
authors of children’s books adorn the walls. Here may be found
the books of all lands, and in all languages, their newspapers,
periodicals, etc.