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Among factors that favor speech development are new experiences, picture books, songs, rhymes, and stories, as well as the constant stimulus of correct, distinct speech as used by adults and other children. Interesting sights and sounds, outdoor trips, looking out into a busy street—all sorts of experiences give the child new ideas, which he wants to talk about. Picture books about familiar animals, persons, and objects enlarge the child's experience still further.

Field trips have many learning values. Usually it is best to have one or two definite purposes in making each trip. One fifth grade took a trip to the old Van Cortlandt Mansion to study colonial life and industries. They went to a bakery, to neighboring stores, and to a food exhibition to supplement their practical work in home economics. In order to derive the most benefit from field trips, the class should discuss beforehand what to look for and should summarize their findings after the trip.

Plane service, untippable service at that, is always a revelation to those wl now fly the Atlantic for the first time. It varies, in detail, but is always "relaxing good," the first-class flights adding certain luxuries and refinements, of cours' though courtesy levels are the same in both tourist and first. The present "cai and feeding" of passengers was not ever thus, for I can remember when plar trips were more often than not "complain trips," with passenger gripes renderii a running obbligato to the engine's hum.