ried, until
the children have become familiar with most of the sounds in the tone
scale. The mental sound images produced, have been associated with the
happy scenes of this merry kindergarten life. By this interweaving of
pleasant sensations, they have become more firmly fixed in a healthy
group of brain cells, thus planted and established in the hearing areas
of the brain.

Second: In a similar manner, the taste sensations and images, are
produced and registered. Day after day, one by one, tiny packages of
confections, beautifully wrapped in brilliantly colored papers, are
given to the children while on their cargosita excursions. These
interesting lessons are continued, until the entire range of savors has
been exhausted. The curiosity, excitement, pleasure and eagerness
exhibited by children, in these tasting investigations, is something
surprising.

Third: Flowers, beautiful flowers of all kinds, are largely used in
producing sensations and images, to be registered in the brain areas of
the sense of smell. The essence of odors which cannot be gotten from
flowers, are used to saturate small sachet bags, of charming color and
artistic design. These bags make attractive play-things for the
children. While using them they soon, unconsciously, become very
skillful in detecting the slightest differences between the various
odors. Brain areas usually left barren, are now filled and developed.

Later in life, when children come to study the different sciences, this
ability to detect the presence of the slightest odor, becomes
invaluable, in the difficult work of classification. With such an
unusual equipment, they will be far in advance of those pupils, who have
not wisely, left uncultivated this important sense of smelling.

In connection with the regular course of exercises, prescribed for
third- and fourth-year children, there is introduced in the play and work
rooms of the kindergarten, a special training, designed to develop the
various sensations of heat and cold: changes in temperature, from one
extreme to the other: sensitiveness to touch: to recognize any degree of
pressure, from zero to the violence of pain: ability to detect size,
length, breadth, and thickness: degrees of smoothness, elasticity, and
hardness: all through the senses of touch, pressure, and muscular
feeling.

Interesting plays are invented for the children, into which, these
exercises are skillfully introduced. These plays, have a peculiar