Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1890-05-04
HANDY WITH HANDS
CREDITABLE RESULTS OF PRACTICAL TRAIN
ING AS SHOWN AT GRAFTON
A Peep Into the Fair of the Public School Scholars
Surprising Products Of Youthful Talent
and Ingenuity-SOme Of the
Articles
Special Telegram to the Register

Special Telegram 10 the Register.
GRAFTON, May 3.-The few of Wheel
ing's citizens who are quandering as to
the ACCESSIBILITY of planting manual
training school in their midst would
doubtless have their belief in its practi-
cability fully established could they but
visit the fair of the Grafton public
school scholars this evening. The Sys-
TEN of manual training has been in
vogue i'm our schools for the past year,
and the fair is now being held for the
purpose of showing the beneficial re-
suits of combining the practical with
the theoretical. This expressive side of
educational development is satiStactOri-
~ exemplyfied in a display OF handi-
work that would do credit to many
older and more experienced in the line
of art. science and sewing. One of the
largest halls of the town is filled with
an almost
ENDLESS VARIETY
of articlcS-nOt Senseless, imaginary or
inoperative-bu articles sound. solid
and practicable, and many Of them
bearing direct relation to the market
able commodities of the outside world
To be sure. many of the plans and mod
els are i'm miniature. but there is the
relative size and distance, and the nat
ural shape, color, angle, contour, in a
word, there is the idea, and all worked
out.
Acting on the plan of giving unto
Caesar the things that are Caesars. we
cannot but credit the scholars OF Graf
ton with remarkable aptitude in this
particular feature of educational work.
To use rough but expressive remark,
the articles. many of them, seem like
''boughtcn" ones. right fresh out OF the
big stores. Not few ladies but that
would be glad to appear out in some Of
the neat and StylShly made dresses, or to
bedeck themselves in the elaborate fem
inc finery. Aprons in new and catchy
designs. laceS. intricate and ingenious
in makeup. toilet cushions and splash
erS. fine wicker work, also flowers work
ed in wax. paper and human hair, all of
which represent much taste and judg-
ment. A white stocking hangs up in
one part of the hall to illustrate the
work of ''darning' by little girl. The
hole covered is a large one. yet so deity
is ii done that il is difficult to detect the
outlines of the mend. A large square
rug with a colored scene inlaid is an
other very noticeable piece of work,
and directly in the
LINE OF THE USEFUL,
as are the numberlcSS crazy quilts
and bed spreads. The line of sewing
covers multitude of ideas, and one would
be astoniShed at the workmanship
which will nearly all bear close inspec-
ton. Even on the lower primary tables
where the articles were made by schOl-
arS only 6 and years Of age, while de-
fectS are not difficult to discern, there
is surprising knowledge shown in the
line Of useful arts. No one can for Il
moment doubt that they have proiited
by the instruction. There are cooking
clubs among the girls and some Of the
pies and cakes on exhibition look de-
cidedly delicate and appetizing. They
furnished an entire supp r to the Board
of Education and invited guests last
night.
Among the boys the mechanical turn
of mind is seen in various locomotives
made of wood, and very cleverlY design
ed. curiosity on one of the tables is
a fully equipped Saw-mill with engine
attached. also another stationary en-
CINE. made in all their part and detail,
by the scholars, and 50 arranged as to
run in perfect harmony when 'fired
up" Excellent work is seen in small
cameras, chairs, bread rollers, and in
various lines Of furniture; many pieces
of which are made with
NOTHING But AJACKKNIFE.
as are also "A full line of gcometrica fig
ures, including several spheres that very
nearly approach perfection. There are
wheelbarrowS. saws, SledS, carts, houses
and log huts in profuSion. A bracket
design of flowers and leaves done in
putty. a fac-simile of the Grafton bridge,
also of the oil well. and plaster OF paris
statue of the Virgin Mary are four re-
markable products on exhibition. The
several creditable drawings and crayons,
and the accurate map designs in chalk
should not pass unnoticed. The me
chanical drawings in the study Of
physics, anu INC Btu'ldi 'NN'HNH'' VI
the penmanship throughout are com
mendable features of the exhibition. 1t
is display well worth going miles to see.
The exhibition is the work of $40 girls
and about 300 boys. The instruction
during the past year has been carried
on in the respective school rooms, and
in such way as to interfere but little
with the regular school work. The in
StructOn in manual training has Oc-
cupled but an hour of each week, gener-
ally on Friday afternoon. Superintend-
ent L. 5. Fleming to whose untiring
labOrS are due
TIE BENEFGCENT SYSTEM,
says the pupils became very much in
tereSted, even enthusiastic in the work.
and strange to say the work does not
detract perceptibly from the regular
school lessons, the scholarship ranks
remaining very uniform. There are
97S articles on exhibition, and should
be seen to be appreciated.