The Day Book from Chicago, Illinois • Page 24

-jrw "A WOMAN HAS FOUND THE UNDISCOVERED CONTINENT OF LITTLE CHILDREN!" Dr. Maria Montessori, Whom Nixola Greeley-Smith Calls "The Discoverer, of the Continent of Little Children," on Her First Visit to America. BY NIXOLA GREELEY-SMITH (Copyright, 1913, by the Newspaper Enterprise Association.) Maria- Montessori, doctor of medicine, countess of Italy, and the most peaceful revolutionist the world has ever known, has arrived in the United 'States to explain to American mothers and American school teachers the method of childreducation which she invented and which has made her name famous throughout the world. Like her countryman, the Genoese Columbus, this plump, middle-aged Italian woman, whose black hair is flecked with gray and whose black eyes-are radiant with intelligence, sought and found an undiscovered continent the country of little children. What has this world-famous teacher to to the mothers of Young America and to their second mothers, the public school teachers? She does not speak Enghsh.sb lectares which she will give through- V-f.