The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1893-12-25

| of st. Mary and the Sacred Heart and in
| cludes boys from to 10 years of age. VIII
are taught by the Brothers of the Chris
tian Doctrine. The work shown in tn,
fourth or primary class consists of work II
arithmetic, penmanship. sentence build
ing. picture lessons and other fundamenta
studies and is all excellent in its way.
The picture lessons" which consist o
short story written by the pupils cor
corning a picture given to them by thefi
teacher, are especially we'll done for chill
d rem so young, Z to 9 years being the age
of the members OF this grade.
The following, written under a vignette
portrait of George Washington, was es-
pecially noted by the visitors:
''In this picture | see George Washing
ton. There is only the picture of his head.
In his days they did not cut and comb
their hair as we do now. Their hair was
not cut until it was very long. He never
told lie in his life. He was a brave and
honest man. He was engaged liz war for
many years and was not killed by a gun.
When the war ended he came home
took sick and died. He is now called the
Father of our Country"
or the children In this room, Bonnie
COllnm, Joseph Mulvihili, John Kenef:k
and Frank Ferguson have done especially
good work throughout the term.
In the third class the exhibition consists
of school work OF higher grade. and
Willie j. McKinnon, c. Pinkham. NJ.
Coffey, +. Franks AID ii. and z. Courneen
are the head scholars, the beauty of their
penmanship being especially noted.
In the second class composition and
English grammar are specially taken up.
together with freehand drawing, many
very excellent examples of which are
hung upon the walls and spread upon the
desks. The work of John p. Callaghan,
John GoggiD, Frank Meehan and James
Donovan attracted much attention in this
department, which contains about thirty
scholars of an average age of thirteen
years.
In the first class bookkeeping sets, Of
which many professional bookkeepers
might well be proud attest the thorough
and excellent training which the brothers
give their pupils in this very impOr ant
study. Freehand and architectural draw
ing are taught most careful in this
grade, and the many specimens of the
boys skill and talent which are displayed
are we'll worth examin alton by all in
terested in the education and advance
ment Of youth.
A very beautifully drawn head of a boy,
life SIZE, is the work of Marcel Tanron in
this class. A pen and ink tiger by Thomas
Marlowe, head of an italian monk by
John Schaffield, full of strength and char
acter wonderful In one so young, and a
panel of California animals, a coyote. a
rabbit and two deer surrounding a bear,
the work of Willie Hughes, are all worthy
of special notice and mention.
Frank Sullivan, Lawrence Haggerty,
James Mccormick and Willie Hughes are
the head scholars in this class, and the
work which they show is really remark
able for bows of IA.
ST. Peters School received gold medal
FO ha
mems of school work which it exhibited
there, and a number of the exhibits now
adjoining the walls of the school are to be
shown in the space accorded to ST. Mary's
College in our own Midwinter Fair.
In order to afford all interested an on
portunity to view the results of the years
instruction the doors of the sch oOlroom
Will be open all day to-day. next Sunday
and New Years day. and every evening
during the week from Ito o'clock, and
the brothers cordially invite the public to
visit the institution, which is open to all.