Eleanor Stackhouse Atkinson

“ The experience of industry a boy can get in this way is considerable. Unfortunately, the workman doesn't want a boy around. He is in the way; often he is in danger. In any case, the industries near him are limited in kind, number and function. A flour mill is only one step in a long series of connected processes that produce the world's bread. Understanding of how any one man's work is bound to all the other work of the world, broadens the mind of the child wonderfully, and teaches him respect for every sort of labor. ”

“ Children have a natural interest in the work of the grown-up world. They love to watch the blacksmith, the carpenter, the mason, the miller, the shoemaker. Boys, too young to work, follow the threshing machine from farm to farm. ”

“ We have connected all these varied industries with the school studies of geography, history, mathematics, drawing, chemistry, physics and astronomy, showing their practical use. A voyage into the World-at-Work opens a new and fascinating wonderland to the children. ”