. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ecture of the snow. * * A City Crusoe In these days of domestic philan-thropy and social settlements it seems alittle strange that so little is done for thehall roomers—the class of girls whohave some cultivation, and have out-grown the Y. W. C. A., with its some-what chilly and forbidding atmosphere,and who have no trend toward the de-batable land of Bohemianism, whichseems, alas, to be the only place where the;gay note is heard. i The hall roomers have not themoney to go to places
. The Suburbanite; a monthly magazine for those who are and those who ought to in interested in suburban homes . ecture of the snow. * * A City Crusoe In these days of domestic philan-thropy and social settlements it seems alittle strange that so little is done for thehall roomers—the class of girls whohave some cultivation, and have out-grown the Y. W. C. A., with its some-what chilly and forbidding atmosphere,and who have no trend toward the de-batable land of Bohemianism, whichseems, alas, to be the only place where the;gay note is heard. i The hall roomers have not themoney to go to places of amusement veryoften. They frequently have no relativesin the city with whom to spend the even-ings. And life in a New York boarding-house is full of social contrasts. Thefirst and second floor front scorn to asso-ciate with the fourth floor back. But itwould take a Dickens to write up thissubject. What is wanted is a .socialsettlement for the class above the slums—the educated and thin-skinned poor,who are between the upper and nethermill-stones.—Ha!! Roomer, in Neiv)or!c Tdci^ram. THE SUBURBANITE. A VS ni-Kcpi Hi)[iirin Ilaiii nciu, :>urrountteil by an Atmosphere of Comtbri and Proipcnly The Suburbs a Great Kindergarten By ESTHER MAPPELBECK 1 is as natural for children toplay as for birds to fly. Play is the first instinctii childhood, said Pestaloz-zi, tlie Swiss educational the-orist, and Froehel, who camealter him. attached so muchimportance to this primal in-inct that he founded his whole educa-onal system upon it—a system that hasitliicnced teaching in its period of g^reat-^t development during the past half cen-iry. Play, to be beneficial to the child, must• spontaneous, and spontaneity calls forlace—freedom—the outer air and the, road. .\ bird may sing in a cage,ut its whole fluttering being calls forature. So does childhood. Into thepen air went Froebel with his band oflillren, and in Nature he sought all the sil)iils ami keys to unl
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