The Kindergarten magazine . d her .ifternoon. \\ ho uails oer lifi-s bright morning gone? The gods at noon shall give thee greater show thee higher hon«)rs to in the ijuiet of that noontide hourliestow .1 prize on all who give the best that any give - Lifes fruitful Kapiiis, Mu/i. .M akv K. ?^(^ OUR NURSERY RHYMES. GOOD Kindergartner wishes to teachonly good. She wishes to teach allgood, by both precept and wish just a word with teachers andmothers upon the character of nurs-ery rhymes. If the characters ofDickens, Hugo, or Shakespeare are
The Kindergarten magazine . d her .ifternoon. \\ ho uails oer lifi-s bright morning gone? The gods at noon shall give thee greater show thee higher hon«)rs to in the ijuiet of that noontide hourliestow .1 prize on all who give the best that any give - Lifes fruitful Kapiiis, Mu/i. .M akv K. ?^(^ OUR NURSERY RHYMES. GOOD Kindergartner wishes to teachonly good. She wishes to teach allgood, by both precept and wish just a word with teachers andmothers upon the character of nurs-ery rhymes. If the characters ofDickens, Hugo, or Shakespeare arereal to us who are grown, and ifthese literary creations influence theacts and thoughts of our every day, how infinitely more realto a child are Jack Horner, Jack and Jill, and the little andbig people who live in nursery rhymes! What is the moralatmosphere of many of these rhymes? Tom, Tom, the pipers son,Stole a pig and away he run. Taffy was a Welshman; Taffy was a thief;Taffy came to my house and stole a leg of Nanty, panty, Jack-a-DandyStole a piece of sugar candyFrom the grocers shoppy-shop,And away did hojjpy-hop. These are nothing more or less than a set of littlethieves, though no sentence or thought of condemnationruns through the rhymes. Would you let your boy go withTom on his pig-stealing expedition? Then do not permita mental association. It is mental, not physical, associa-tions that contaminate. Not only do the gamins of the nursery rhyme out-stealthe real ones of the street, but the greatest kings commitpetty larceny for no apparent reason, and queens and noblesprofit by stolen goods. Our Xurscry Rhymes. 393 \\\M:ngood[\) King Arthur ruled the land. He was -a i;oodly kin;{; , He STOLK two |»ca};-i>u(l(Iin}^ the kin^ did make, And sluffctl it well with [>lums,And in it put some lumps of fat As bi^ as my two thumbs. The king and queen did eat thereof. And nobles ate beside;And what they did not eat that night The ijueen n
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