The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-11-27

AT LINCOLN SCHOOL.
To the Editor of the Eagle


THANKSGIVING day at Lincoln stree
school was made very pleasant to the pu
nils by its corps of excellent teachers a.
we'll "a profitable. The rooms were beau
tif1lIv and appropriately decorated and ar
artistic arrangement of the cereals, fruits
and vegetables from the fields, orchards
and gardens of fertile Kansas adorned
tables and walls.
Having little girl in the third grade,
she insisted that l must spend the hour
from 8 to O'Clock o. m. in this room and
hear how much the little ones had to be
thankful for and listen to the other exer-
cises. Miss McNab, the efficient teacher
of this grade. had arranged an interesting
program: First song by the school and
she asked them what they were thankful
for Up went about forty little hands.
annie" the teacher called, and she
resnonded. II am thankful for my papa and
mamma" That is really something to be
truly thankful for, there are so many
poor, little orphans with no dear parents
TO love and care for them, says the teacher
svmnatbeticallY, which finds thankful
r.snonse in every glad little heart which
was so blessed and sigh of woe from
the sad hearts of the two or three mother
less little one.
81 am so thankful, says Johnny, 'for
the turkey we are going 10 have for din
ner" At which all the hungry boys
smacked their lips in anticipation of the
feast on the morrow. 81 am thankful TO
God for giving us such a nice teacher"
said 4 sweet, flaxen-haired, little maiden,
and happy smile of assent wreathed the
faces of the pupils showing the teacher held
a warm place in the heart OF each one OF
them and that bond of love and sympa-
thy existed between pupils and teecher,
which is so necessary for them 20 be sue
cessful and enable them to do their best
work. Thank you, Mable, dear, replied
the teacher. for your kind words. Are
Won not thankful to the bountiful father
OF all for the rich harvest Kansas has gar
nered this year," asks the teacher. ''Oh,
yes" saws Frank for the 60 coo, 900 bush
els of wheat " For the $50 million bushels
of corn" eagerly responds Bert. For the
100000 600 bushels of oats" Clinton re-
spends earnestly, thinking, perhaps, how
happy all these oats would make the 100000
horses For all the fruits and vegeta-
bles. chirps up Ray, who has been feasting
on the luscious Kansas fruits all summer
and fall
Kansas must be the garden spot of the |
world to pour into our store houses all this
aggregated wealth of grain, fruits aud |
vegetables in one season, and the teachers |
face expressed as plain words could tell /
that she was glad she lived in sunny, peer
less Kansas.
The school then sang a Thanksgiving |
hymn, after which twelve boys and twelve 1
girls told in unison of all the wOndrous
blessings God in his goodness and mercy |
has vouchsafed to us as a commonwealth. |
Next came up tripping in front of the |
school and spectators six winsome little
girls and repeated in poetry beautiful de-
Bcription of the present, past and first
Thanksgiving where on New England'S |
bleak, frigid and dreary shores surrounded
by PRIMAL forests and savages. the Pill
grim fathers thanked God that they were
free from religious persecution which had
followed them SO relentlessly in the
mother country, and they could now
worship God without fear, according to
the dictates of their own conscience
Clinton now told them in his jolly,
hearty way of the proud old turkey COB
bier who did ''eat aud strut and strut and
eat and corpulent did grow" till you
could see him in the barn yard in all his
glory, and last done to a turn on the
table. and, also the third
and last wild scene of the boy at midnight
clad in white, soaring in a frenzied way
this same old gobbler from the head of
his bed.
Three little sisters all under years,
with footsteps light and futtering hearts
timidly appeared in the scenes, and song
In accent soft and mild that sweetest of
all old songs, Home, Sweet, Sweet
Home" and all hearts seem to respond to
the beautiful sentiment
The blue-eyed little Hattie with won
derful pathos told the old but ever vel
come story of Gods unfathomable love for
the children of men and the gratitude
which should swell up in our hearts as a
continual thanksgiving for meTcies and
blessings we are the recipients of Time
and space fail me to individuslize the
other performances, all of which were
good and enjoyed by the patrons who were
present and commented in such manner
that shows that they fully appreciate the
good work which is being done by the
and all OF the subordinate teach
ers of Lincoln, and also we believe that
Wichita schools, under the able and
efficient management of DR.. Stevenson,
are credit to his ability and second to
none in the land. y. Z. FULLER.