. The Kindergarten magazine. neverallows them to sing in a careless manner, and her gracioushints and gentle suggestions at these times are emphasizedat the regular Sunday evening practice of such hymns asare found worthy to be added to their collection. We heard a great deal said about House meeting, butour curiosity received no satisfaction until we had experi-enced one. When Friday night came we did not knowwhether we were going to a prayer meeting, a club meeting,or a sewing bee. We found it neither one, but like allthree. Imagine, if you can, thirty or more young women, THE KEILHAU OF AME
. The Kindergarten magazine. neverallows them to sing in a careless manner, and her gracioushints and gentle suggestions at these times are emphasizedat the regular Sunday evening practice of such hymns asare found worthy to be added to their collection. We heard a great deal said about House meeting, butour curiosity received no satisfaction until we had experi-enced one. When Friday night came we did not knowwhether we were going to a prayer meeting, a club meeting,or a sewing bee. We found it neither one, but like allthree. Imagine, if you can, thirty or more young women, THE KEILHAU OF AMERICA. 627 arrayed in light gowns of delicate coloring, grouped in un-conscious attitudes of grace on chairs or on cushions on thefloor, most of them busy with some light bit of work—evenstocking darning being glorified in this atmosphere. For abackground, or setting, a long, narrow room, a few pieces ofdark, polished furniture reflecting, as in a mirror, light andcolor, green and rose-colored draperies and pictured walls,. A Study Hour. and over all the soft, warm glow of lamp and candle light,made softer and warmer by rose-colored shades, the airladen with the perfume radiating from a towering bouquetof long-stemmed American beauty roses. Do you see it?I hope so. But the thing which ono. felt the most was not that out-ward view—those strong, artistic effects, beautiful and ap-pealing as they were. It was the utter absence of posing or 628 KINDERGARTEN MAGAZINE, sickly sentimentality; it was the naturalness, the simplicity,the wholesomeness, the hominess, the health of it all; thesubdued merriment, the intensified earnestness, the alertreadiness of each one present. What we felt was really thespiritual side of all the outward beauty, harmony, and unityproducing life and color. After the Fire music from Wagners Seigfried, exe-cuted in a rare manner by the musical member of the house-hold, the House mother read a few verses of Scripture anda part of one of Whitmans poems, and
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