. Review of reviews and world's work . loors or washing dishes—and justas much applause is given to those who doscrub floors and wash dishes, and just asmuch attention to the awarding of theirprizes, as to the higher grade children whospeak pieces or sing songs. NOT AFRAID OF FUN Entertainments, plays, concerts, jollifica-tions of all kinds are going on eve every child hangs up its stock-ing and wakes to find it bulging with its ownpeculiar wants, just as if it were the petteddarling of a private home—and there is al-ways a tree, and a Santa Claus, and morepresents on Chri
. Review of reviews and world's work . loors or washing dishes—and justas much applause is given to those who doscrub floors and wash dishes, and just asmuch attention to the awarding of theirprizes, as to the higher grade children whospeak pieces or sing songs. NOT AFRAID OF FUN Entertainments, plays, concerts, jollifica-tions of all kinds are going on eve every child hangs up its stock-ing and wakes to find it bulging with its ownpeculiar wants, just as if it were the petteddarling of a private home—and there is al-ways a tree, and a Santa Claus, and morepresents on Christmas Day. Every holiday,down to the most insignificant, is celebratedwith its own appropriate exercises, and everycommon day is begun wuth a glorious generalromp, called morning assembly. They are not a bit afraid at Vineland ofspoiling children with too much fun. Fun,they say, is a primary condition to effectiveeducational work. What they do fear is un-happiness, depression, boredom. So much do 530 THE AMERICAN REVIEW OF REVIEWS. which the children are takenon camping trips during theSummer. These things are provided,not as amusements merely^but as the important part ofthe educational , baseball, foot-ball,basket-ball, and all othergames and sports are notonly encouraged as in theordinary school, but are sys-tematically taught to all thechildren as an integral partof their school work. What-ever develops muscular co-ordination, they say at Vine-land, tends to develop brainpower also. COTTAGE GROUPS ONE OF THE HIGH-GRADE GIRLS (She will learn to do the necessary things in life, but cannot be trusted to go outtrom institutional control) The children—some 400 innumber—are housed in largefamily groups, classified ac- they fear these things, indeed, that to fight cording to mental grade, in ten attractive them they have organized a secret society— little cottages furnished in as homelike and the strangest secret society in the world. It un-institutional a
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