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The Wollies's Medical Soviets must be proud of its work at the ASN.3. Exhibition- In spite of great disadvantages in the hall, flooring, Lighting gwi ventilation, there is, in addition to the begtene exhibits, 4 aplendiolly equipped creche, @ rest-TH0ui for tired women and a Wondeful sound or chiki. On payment of ad a mother may leave her chils, knot ing that it will be properly hired for while she cvs the exhibition. Most mothers recognise the advan tage of leaving a God an a cool, pleasant room to be carefully nurs ed. This department is nm charge of a matron and two experienced nurses, assisted by volunteers who are members of the creche commit tes in the surious suburbs. — The standard joke in respect to creches is that at the first creahy, held at the Women's Work Rehibition, ay feetiae, sath a it bis ce at ten o'clock when the creche open ed, and the chill remained until it closed. Tt_was Cup Day, 107 the thes Primester and is wife had volunteered for duty at the creche. Long after 0 o'clock the child's father, hating “had a setup days at the ta cantie, aid his 34, and with a bare “Thank you, claimed his own i doem the Prime Minister - The Guild of Play, another vol unteer association, headed by Miss Madeline Murray, is responsible for the model playground To teach children to play is the fim! re marked a fall as he watched to Swall girls on a miniature rousd about. But it was easy to see that most of the children entering the playground had no dea how to atvise themselves Until encoursred and chided by a kindly attendant, once they had felt the thrill or sliding down the safety “chute, or riding on the safety swings,’ she saw and zaetre-go-romith, the child- Ten were loth to leave the crowmd. Smaller chilarat have a sand aie with cardboard boxes for buckets and shovels. The one Misaian since as that the plasground is, surcound ed by brick Salts, bh copie and radiate the heat, and it is without overhead she'tes. Fivena4 geting would ye sume Help. if the Hottest day last week the pt3- ground was closed [or fear of suit Stroke for the chilean, thingl the attendants sak there all day to be plain to an forerestes, an ath ointed, public Witsie 25 vie ject af the Guild of Troy to bare such playgrounds otted through out the poorer suharty. At the exhibitions the Playgrams will be pitched on some spot in the apd. * + @# «© The delightful methods of the ki dergarten system are shown ach afternoon at thy ‘exibition. The frst demonstration was rom the Nouverie street, » Carton, center. This demonstration was on we original Froebelinn Hues. During the proceedings the tow tables (te n tables and chains are made to fit the acess of the children) were laid with snowy cloths with a ¥ase of fosts on each. Each child wissips plied with ink and biscuits, and athe utmost politeness and quiet ness, was allsteel, ‘Seared the gofer. Not a bit of it attention to table manners *y geaiure of the kinderzaiven tra fig, abd qby-seounds wonderfully farreaching, Claidcen gastmenivere fore order and anethod, and the parents oftem come to their own special meetings with stories of buy ther hors and girls iy La anstil the same polit rules tie the famile cael! The children ede a surprisinely Wright, brave ap pearance Jk ta clothes, and ques tioned about this, Miss Lusi, the directress, wid | that though the mothers are poor thes are poand, and wach subdenial Mud gone to the buying and naking of whose Same clothes “for this pube ap pearance. Later i the day some p ube Montessor: methods were dem onstrates to a snall extent, ‘The “visual and the vactile beim wld as important avenues of learning = 2s the auditory. For a short vane sou, as the children sat at tables and locatee rows of eyebred holes, buttoned rows of Unttons into corresponding horns, guit hooks ante eyes, or tied ends of Yay til dor Gino’ haws. ‘The dew” bene taught was union, of practically fastening, and the Vttle Gigers were beng trained to be seli-helpful. ‘At the woe of the proceedings an interestion note was the individual Garewell_ of each child to the direct eess. It is this individual note, the cr of pack child being a Separate problem which marks the Montessan grsten. rou the $indergarten to the hygien: atction, from the old ta ffy, “retails vivide the danger which comes to the child from the fy. A magnited moda shows the danger very plaints, and housewares attending this television can fear the best modes of combating this pest. The fy-trap to ix sulphured when his ascong way, the Dy, per another, end the heme-made iy-Paper is one of the ves. Ths 35 one of Lic simplest mudes. Add a teaspoouul ai formalin to thee fourths of 2 cuplul_ai water, and BA up with mill. Spread drops of this mixture on pieces of capaberd or other suitable material in which way it readily attracy they ane sluggish wi suzar, homer or treacle may be added to the misyture, Forman tosta a shilling or so 4 Lottie, less for taterial enough [or weeks | than the tainted, tour milk of one week, ‘The child imay be Laught to rd the fy ax His ene and ust a Maire i “Swarting’ y WiLL an eoplement like tennis racket, so that the Ay furore’ avelings be realy destroy s. To Webnd there is some sport int thin, some shit ty repired. The West swalters ats fat ordinals wipe le STORRS er mst be perforated to: on tr aid Mir a fy with a Wrath. hrak. er outer sold object eens dyply detent of ar that tye Ul driven away int Tuaab ‘ and fou. Not so vith the seyter, Trays polseu, all aware that vicorously and intelligently notiied were responsible for the deatht ingne day or LUMA Huge at the hands of one boy. Ty was in a Ay-billing contest, and there was moody init, a £ 2 frst prize, not the Finstl affpred us “prize waney caused ste death of a quien cindy Bait tHe im less than Once weeks To Tas xpeech At the openints of the ANA, Exhibition p rofessor skirae sant that modern Sreiene is not a matter of Ulls, as a lady profess to think. hygiene is po Tore Clan a receipe for cleen ness, @ receipe hosed on Ue Tatest oo esperiuuiti4 of praletical workers) ‘the more thorayebily the Tien are svomen of today eppir Ais recele the Detter vil the word he for them and ther child ren, Plies are reproducing less now t that summer has turned the caruce t and every fy killed from now on wards means a certain dimention of those that shall live through the winter and survive to plague ES nest summer. Yours, eto. MARTHA.
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Castlemaine Mount Alexander Mail
Castlemaine, Victoria, AU
Thu, Feb 13, 1913
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