The relation between the kindergarten and the big world outside the kindergarten Miss Laws states as follows:
Some one has said that “the primary aim of the kindergarten is to create a miniature world which shall be to the child a faithful portrait of the greater world in its ideal aspects.”
If the kindergarten can bring to each and all of us its aid in helping us to create for ourselves a miniature world, which shall be a faithful portrait of the greater world in its ideal aspects; and if it can aid in making us content to give to our communities the service for which we are best fitted, and can teach us to so live that not so much social efficiency as social reciprocity shall be our aim and purpose, then we shall all agree to give to the kindergarten its true place as one of the most valuable factors of social life and social work of the present time, one worthy of our best thought and effort.
A CONTRAST
Laura Simmons
Across the gloom a shadow flits; I glimpse a sodden face
Wherein the years of sin and toil and care have left their trace:
A wanton laugh—I mark no more, for yonder in the glow
One waiteth me—my love, my star! with welcoming, I know: