Memoranda to Tables 18 and 19. Location. Waynesborough, Ga.. Fort Wayne, Ind. Garnett, Kans Haven Normal School Name. Elkhart Normal School.. Training School, department of public schools Southern Indiana Normal School. Teachers' Seminary of the German-Evangelical Garnett Normal School and Business Institute Ashland College Normal School Concord State Normal School Remarks. No information received. No information received. Closed. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. Closed. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. No information received. KINDERGARTENS. NUMBER OF INSTITUTIONS. The total number of kindergartens reported to the Office for the present year is 417, with 945 instructors and 21,640 pupils. This shows very little change from the report of 1884-85, due probably to the imperfect returns received. As far as reported the manner of support of each kindergarten has been tabulated this year, giving 128 supported by tuition, 118 by public funds, and 121 by charity. CHARITY KINDERGARTENS. A great part of the work is still carried on by charity, San Francisco, Chicago, Boston, and Philadelphia taking the lead in establishing and maintaining free kindergartens. In San Francisco, under the care of four associations, 22 kindergartens are supported, one society alone, the Golden Gate Association, having 933 children under its care. Chicago has a free kindergarten association with 13 kindergartens for the present year and a free training class for teachers with 45 pupils, whose graduates teach in the free kindergartens. In Boston, Mrs. Quincy A. Shaw, by whose generosity the cause in that city received its greatest impulse, supports 18 kindergartens. Under the Subprimary School Society in Philadelphia there are 29 kindergartens supported by charity and public funds combined. Cincinnati has 6 charity kindergartens, Indianapolis 4, and Portland, Oregon, 4, each under the care of an association having for its object the establishment of free kindergartens and the training of teachers for this work. Kindergarten departments have been established in several institutions for the blind and the deaf and dumb, in orphan asylums and schools for the feeble minded, where their effects are most beneficial, bringing joy and comfort to many a little heart shut out from much of this world's happiness. PUBLIC KINDERGARTENS. The work of making the kindergarten a part of our public-school system is only a question of time. The most eminent educators of the day recognize and indorse its principles and methods, and only the expense involved prevents its becoming at once the lowest grade of the public schools of our leading cities. According to the latest reports now in this Office, in St. Louis all children receive one year of kindergarten instruction before entering the primary schools, and some of the features of the kindergarten are carried into the first year's primary work, thus making a natural transition from the kindergarten to the school. Milwaukee has 10 public kindergartens; Ionia, Mich., 3; and Muskegon, in the same State, 4, while Des Moines, Iowa, has supported 2 for the last two years. In Philadelphia part of the kindergartens under the Subprimary School Society are in public-school buildings and supported by public funds, and Superintendent MacAlister says: "Philadelphia can no longer afford to be without the kindergarten." Steps are being taken to make it a part of the public-school system. The superintendent of schools, Springfield, Mass., in a report on introducing kindergartens into public schools, says: "Those who have studied the system and observed its results generally concede the following: "1. The children trained by it are more submissive to school discipline; "2. They are more intelligent, more exact observers, and grasp ideas more readily than others; |