xercises are made more
interesting, by giving each child a small silk flag. In this part of the
game, the children are at their best. The picture they make, is just
lovely!

In the closing part of the game, the children are seated and the
mathematical exercises are introduced. The director says: "Each child
has one nose. How many noses, have the number tens? Again, each child
has one body. How many bodies, have the number nines? Each child has two
eyes. How many eyes, have the number eights? Each child has two ears.
How many ears, have the number sevens? Each child has one mouth. How
many mouths, have the number sixes? Each child has two arms. How many
arms, have the number fives? Each child has two hands. How many hands,
have the number fours? Each child has two legs. How many legs, have the
number threes? Each child has two feet. How many feet, have the number
twos? Each child has ten fingers and ten toes. How many fingers and
toes, has number one?" These questions are varied and repeated, day
after day, until every child in the pyramid, can answer any one of the
questions, correctly and promptly. To be chosen as a member of this
game, is a coveted honor, it is conferred as a reward for good conduct.
Consequently, the pride and pleasure exhibited by these decorated and
selected children, is commensurate with the importance of this very
primitive class in mathematics and physiology.

This very brief outline, of the plays, exercises and studies, which form
the nursery and kindergarten course, for children at Solaris, who are
under four years of age, will serve to show how much important
knowledge, a child can accumulate during those fruitful image-bearing
years, while pleasantly and zealously engaged, day after day, in a
series of wisely directed games.

In playing these games, the children have become interested in, and have
learned a very large number of useful words. These words in the mind of
the child, are as familiar and as easily remembered, as are the names of
favorite toys, such as balls, bats, kites and dolls. This wide
vocabulary of key-words which has become the mental property of the
child, has planted in the mind the necessary images, which in future
years of study, will serve as a sure foundation, for the quick and easy
mastery of all branches of useful knowledge. Many a man of the world has
gone through life, without acquiring such a vocabulary.

Considering this primary course of study from another