fascination. They excite an intense interest, which seems to always
attract and hold the child's attention, until there is enregistered, in
regular sequence, in the touch areas of the brain, all the sensations
and images, which can be produced by many weeks of training, in this
systematic course.

The training of the senses, is also carried forward through the medium
of such plays as are calculated to bring out the child's capacity to
distinguish the least noticeable difference, in pitches of color,
degrees of light, pitches of sound, with its degrees of volume and
loudness; together, with ability to discover the least noticeable
difference, in resistance to pressure, or the slightest increase or
decrease of rythmical motion, etc. The lines of least noticeable
difference, in the capacity of the various senses, having been well
established, the training commences along those lines. Very soon, in the
brain areas of the senses under training, there comes an increased cell
growth, which gives added sharpness and capacity. The line of least
noticeable difference, is moved one step nearer the limit. This process
is continued with each sense separately, until the limit for all has
been reached. As a general result of this training, we find that the
child has acquired an extraordinary reinforcement of brain power and
intellectual acuteness.

Regular kindergarten work, for children at Solaris, between two and four
years of age; is again reinforced, by adding to the list of exercises, a
large number of plays, which introduce the variously colored, lettered
blocks, so successfully used in Fern Fenwick's early training, during
her seven years of Alaska life.

The collection of blocks, is a very large one. It is calculated to
furnish a series of new combinations, which cannot be exhausted, in the
plays of one whole year. These blocks are made and colored with the
greatest care. The groups or families, are distinguished, by size, shape
and color. The Alphabet blocks, are large cubes, painted white, with the
letter showing in black on every side. All other blocks, have a uniform
thickness of one-half inch. They are as large as can be fashioned from
blocks two inches square. The names appear in white letters, on all
alike.

The astronomy blocks are star shaped, painted blue. The geology blocks
are diamond shaped, painted brown. The chemistry blocks are hexagonal in
shape, painted red. The geography blocks are globular in shape, pa