Rensselaer Journal, Volume 10, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 May 1901 — A Japanese Kindergarten. [ARTICLE]

A Japanese Kindergarten.

The kindergarten has proved Itself the most contagious fad in the world. Indeed, in Japan, where one now hears of it, they don’t consider it a fad at alt Kindergartens are as securely established as the Government, and the Japanese child is sent to them as early in life and as regularly as though his mamma lived in Beacon street. * Japan has even improved on Boston and on Germany, too, for that matter, for here are some of the features included i- the drlental version of Froebel: “Item No. 1 in the day’s programme consist in bowing to the teacher. Japanese politeness is inculcated when a child begins to crawl, and as soon as be can stand he is taught to make a bow. So Japanese children of all ages will make a deep obesiance when occasion demands, and that is very often.” Many of these young sticklers for ceremony are but three years old. They look not in the least like American or European babies, but like the Japanese dolls which our children play with, except that their faces are really much prettier. But their hair is cut in the same fantastic way, and their little “kimonos” and “obis” are even more attractive in the original than In the imitation.- Waver* ley Magazine.