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As Harry walked down from her house in Green Street, his thoughts were divided between the new life and that old one which she had raised again before his eyes by her reference to Cecily. The balance was turned in favor of Blent by the sight of a man who was associated in his mind with it Sloyd, the house-agent who had let Merrion Lodge to Mina Zabriska.
Manual training, shop-work, sloyd, and gardening have come into use for the school ages; the teaching of trades has been admitted to some public school systems; and, in general, the use of the hands and eyes in productive labor has been recognized as having good educational effects. The education of men by manual labor was a favorite doctrine with Emerson.
History of the movement Its philosophy The value of hand training in the development of the brain and its significance in the making of man A grammar of our many industries hard The best we do can reach but few Very great defects in our manual training methods which do not base on science and make nothing salable The Leipzig system Sloyd is hypermethodic These crude peasant industries can never satisfy educational needs The gospel of work, William Morris and the arts and crafts movement Its spirit desirable The magic effects of a brief period of intense work The natural development of the drawing instinct in the child.
Sloyd knew Blent and could take an interest; he described it, raising his voice so that it travelled beyond the room and reached the hammock in the garden where Cecily lay. She liked a hammock, and her father could not stand china figures and vases on it, so that it secured her where to lay her head.
"I don't understand the family arrangements," remarked Madame Zabriska, "but I daresay I shall learn it all if I go." "If you had a 'Peerage, madame " he suggested, being himself rather vague about the mysteries of a barony by writ. "I'll get one from the waiter presently. Good-morning, Mr Sloyd." Sloyd was making his bow when the door opened and a man came in.
How do you like the feeling of making money?" "Well, I think it might grow on a man. What's your experience?" "Sometimes better than this morning, or I should hardly have been your neighbor at Fairholme." The two walked off together, leaving Duplay and Sloyd very amicable. Iver was thoughtful. "You did that well," he said as they turned the corner into Berkeley Square.
She had taken his measure as perfectly as the tailor himself, and was enjoying the counterfeit presentment of a real London dandy who came to her in the shape of a house-agent. "I don't want a big place," she explained in English, with a foreign touch about it. "There's only myself and my uncle, Major Duplay he'll be in directly, I expect and we've no more money than we want, Mr Sloyd."
Principals only," said Sloyd with a shake of his head. "How does one become a principal then? I'll walk your way a bit." Harry lit a cigar; Sloyd became more erect and amended the position of his hat; he hoped that a good many people would recognize Harry. Yet social pride did not interfere with business wariness. "Are you in earnest, Mr Tristram? It's a safe thing."
In a quite little street running between the Fulham and the King's Road, in a row of small houses not yet improved out of existence, there was one house smallest of all, with the smallest front, the smallest back, and the smallest garden. The whole thing was almost impossibly small, a peculiarity properly reflected in the rent which Mr Gainsborough paid to the firm of Sloyd, Sloyd, and Gurney for the fag-end of a long lease. He did some professional work for Sloyds from time to time, and that member of the firm who had let Merrion Lodge to Mina Zabriska was on friendly terms with him; so that perhaps the rent was a little lower still than it would have been otherwise; even trifling reductions counted as important things in the Gainsborough Budget. Being thus small, the house was naturally full; the three people who lived there were themselves enough to account for that. But it was also unnaturally full by reason of Mr Gainsborough's habit of acquiring old furniture of no value, and new bric-
Sloyd at its best tries to correlate several series, viz., exercises, tools, drawing, and models. Each must be progressive, so that every new step in each series involves a new and next developmental step in all the others, and all together, it is claimed, fit the order and degree of development of each power appealed to in the child.
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