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Rh think they are playing with toys. So they are; but they are pursuing a method, and their play is constructive play. Some of them show remarkable invention and skill, stimulated by friendly emulation and the natural love of beautiful forms; and to all it is a rare culture of the mind, at the same time it trains the muscles in skillful and exact manipulation. When the exercise is finished the same little hands replace every object in its allotted place in the cabinet, and thus the whole ends with a lesson in method and order.

All the educational advantages arc free, and in the nursery and pouponnat (the poupons are the little tots from the age when they can walk well up to about four or five years, when they enter the bombinat or lowest department of the school proper,) food of the best kind and prepared is the most proper manner is supplied, Parents take the poupons home for the night, and the nurselings also if they desire it. The mother can leave her babe in the nursery all or part of the time, go and nurse it from her breast at intervals, or keep it wholly in her own department, just as she pleases. Freedom reigns everywhere. Women volunteer as nurses, or are chosen for known capacity, and though mothers at first thought they could not leave their infants out of sight, they soon learned to be grateful for the nursery, because the babies themselves fretted at home and were cross until they were taken back among their peers. The nursery is kept as sweet as a rose garden, the youngest babies go to bed without crying and without rocking. Strangers have freely testified to this. They have toys of all kinds, and from the broad balcony of the nursery on fine days they watch the parrots and gay birds in the aviary, and are taken into the grounds and gardens