DAY AT THE MERRILL-PALMER SCHOOL,A. [DETROIT] [PART 10]
Description
The original catalog description provided by the Ford Motor Company reads as follows: Doctor examines small disrobed girl who walks back and forth across room - girl climbs up steps stands on table, doctor examines her feet and legs, she sits down, doctor measures her chest. “How about her heart and lungs?” Doctor taps her back and chest, uses stethoscope. “Mental examination” Woman demonstrates how boxes fit inside each other according to size, gives set of boxes to child who attempts to solve problem. “Put these back in their box, Peter.’” Child fits various shaped blocks into their container. “At four we can do lots more.” Child matches various shaped blocks with patterns on a board. “‘I did a good job that time.’” Child completes matching problem, woman turns the board over. “I hold profoundly the conviction that the welfare of any community is divinely, and hence inseparably, dependent upon the quality of its motherhood, and the spirit and character of its homes.” “End.” [1927]
Read more