ub, is seated on each car as the
center of its group. It becomes her pleasure, to direct attention to the
various objects. Let us follow the cargosita with its precious freight,
as it slowly moves around the oval.
Images produced by the sense of seeing, are first in order. Large
sheets of thick, heavy paper mounted on cloth, seven in number,
displaying the different colors of the rainbow, are hung at uniform
intervals around the room. They can be raised or lowered, to reach an
easy angle of vision from the cars. After each primary color, appear
half-width sheets of the same height, displaying the various hues, tints
and shades of that particular color. Printed across each sheet in large
white letters, is the name of the color, hue, tint or shade. Altogether,
this color scheme forms a combination of great length, of such
remarkable variety, that it becomes for the little ones, a well nigh
inexhaustable source of fascinating amusement.
Red, with its various hues, tints and shades, is the first color to be
exhibited. Three days later, another color series is substituted. This
course is continued until the entire series is finished. The children
have experienced in a regular sequence, the sensations and images,
produced by the entire scale of color. These mental pictures have been
repeated so often, in connection with the muscular sense of exhilarating
motion, that they have become permanently enregistered in brain-cell
formation. A review every few months, serves to fix these images more
firmly in the brain.
This primary course of educative work is continued, by taking up
consecutively, in regular order; on a separate series of sheets, life
size, naturally colored photographs, of fishes, reptiles, insects,
birds, animals, and people. Later, geological specimens, glass, rocks
and minerals. To be followed by pictures of life in the vegetable
kingdom, flowers, fruits, plants and trees. Again, with photographs of
works of art, paintings and statuary.
Interspersed with this general course, are short lessons, offered to
produce true images, in the hearing, smelling and tasting areas of the
brain.
First, by repeating at different times, while the cargosita is in
motion, with its cargo of infantile passengers, all of the best musical
compositions, executed vocally, and on the electric piano, the giant
orchestrion, the violin, and a great variety of other musical
instruments. These lessons in hearing, are repeated and va
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