Identifier: howtoshowpictur00hurl (find matches)
Title: How to show pictures to children
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Hurll, Estelle M. (Estelle May), 1863-1924
Subjects: Art -- Study and teaching
Publisher: Boston, New York Houghton Mifflin Company
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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ntribute to this end. From pictures
of domestic pets so easily identified, he passes with
awe and curiosity to pictures of wild animals which
have never come into his ken: elephants, camels, and
lions; and from these again to mythical beasts like
the dragon. From pictures of houses and churches,
such as he sees daily, he turns with inquiring eyes to
views of splendid public buildings such as he has
never known. From children of his own class, in
dress and appearance like his own, he advances to the
child life of other periods and lands. In these cases
the new thing is enough like the old to seem halfway
familiar, and still so unfamiliar as to stimulate new
interest. The child must begin with what he can
understand, but his thirst for knowledge gives him a
zest for something beyond, not so far beyond, how-
ever, that it is in outer darkness. The universal rule
of progress is by one step at a time.
It is singular how the opposite pleasures of recog-
nition and curiosity alternate and balance each other
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Mansell, Photo. John Andrew & Son Sc.

PENELOPE BOOTHBY


THE CHILD AND THE PICTURE 9

in a child's likes and dislikes. All boys and girls have
a strong conservative element in their make-up, the
girl clinging tenaciously to her battered old dolls, and
the boy loyal to his dismembered dogs and horses.
At the same time they are always teasing for some
new toy or amusement. So with pictures. At times
they seem interested only in something familiar, and
again they utterly refuse to look at the "tiresome
old" picture book they "know by heart." I have a
box of miscellaneous prints which tests the caliber
of many an unsuspecting little visitor. While I am
busy at my desk, this box is explored, and the dis-
coverer brings me the special treasures selected. I
remember one little girl whose amusement consisted
in counting out the pictures she herself happened to
have. Another surprised me very much by finding
a few old photographs I had entirely forgotten. They
were Nativity subjects by some early Italian painters,

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