The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-12-23
AN AFTERNOON WITH WHITTIER

AN AFTERNOON WITH WHITTIER
Manager Herald Bureau-You are
cordially invited to attend our exer-
cises Friday afternoon, Dec. 20. 1885.
from l to $3.50 pm.
1.-THE work will be displayed from l
TO 2. and after that we will have
Christmas and Whittier exercises.
MAY HUME.
Madison School, Room l.
Ogden. Dec. 10, 1885,
The above note from a bright little
school Miss found its way into me
Herald Office the other morning ana
the invita- ton was promptly accepteo.
AT the main entrance Of the oulidlhg
the newspaper man was met by FRO
lessor T. H. Sweeny, who conducted
him to room No. 1. where Professor
Evans gave him a cordial welcome ano
fade him take a seat with the rest OF
the scholars.
Several days have elapsed since the
news man last attended school, ana
while waiting for the exercises to oe-
gin he glanced around and made
few notes of the surroundings.
The room is a modern school-room.
with all the latest improvements
such as ventilation. seating, lighting,
etc. and one could see thai the com
fort and well-being OF both scholars
and teachers had been carefully con-
sidered when the building was erected.
\ draft of pure warm air entered
from a large air shaft about midway
between the floor and ceiling, while
another large opening in the wall near
the floor al one end of tie roo~' 60"
ried away all the foul air. A large
piece of evergreen attached u l.
ceiling kept dancing around in a
manner that clearly indicated than
there was a "draught' in the room
but not of that dangerous. death-deai-
ing chsra cter that used to tricFle
down the backs Of the boys and girls
who used TO go to school twenty or
thirty years ago in the old stove
heated rooms While contemplating
all these modern Improvements and
wondering if twenty years hence the
school-houses that are in keerfng with
the modern idea will be as much in
advance of the 1895 building as 1t is
in advance of those of 1875. the little
miss who sent The Herald the invi-
ta.tion to be present came and presen-
ted it's representative with neatly
written programme of the exercises
of the day. as follows:
Programme.
Song. Observation-Disclosures. By School
Quotations from whittier"
Essay on whittier :. Virgie Breeder
Recitation. Corn Song" .............
Observation-Disclosures. Myrtle McManis
Recitation. 1.-THE Three Bells. .......
Graz &c Bruckman
Music. instrumental. Fannie Cannon
MONA Tbor,nson
Recitation Snow Bound" May Hume
Recitation Barefoot Boy" ..........
...................... Blanche Wright
Song. Xmas Carol" BY School
Recitation. Lady Judith's Vision.
Observation-Disclosures. jean Macmillan
Recitation Maud Muller" Lulu Peery
Recitation, king volmer and FL
s'a'' Ada Flanagan
Song. Observation-Disclosures. Ruth Blair
Essay on Xmas" -. Edith Lessenger
Recitation. Dots Christmas. .....
Recitation. Toms Three Christ
mases' Nell Bennett
Recitation. Christmas Caror
Observation-Disclosures. Kate Myers
Recita tion.. Frank Snyder
Every number on the programme
was rendered in d, manner creditable
alike to both scholar and teacher.
It is a plea thing to see so much
interest manifested in the lives of the
great men of This nation by the school
children. Professor Sweeny believes
in doing something occasionally to
impress upon the minds of the pupils
under him the good example of the
lives Of such men as the Quaker poet.
One pleasing feature Of the entertain
men9 was an address by DR.. Condor.
L. IT.
gramme The doctor was personally
acquainted with the poet Whittier; in
fact. he was q personal friend having
visited him at his home in Massachu-
sets.
He related in a very entertaining
manner "a few incidents of his visit.
and exhibited a pencil and book pre-
scented to him by the poet before his
death.
The pencil. a cheap tw-o-for-a-nickel
variety, is priced very highly by the
doctor. He said that on the occasion
of one of his visits to Mr. Whittier he
asked him for the pencil with which
he was writing. Mr. Whittier looked
it over very carefully and then said.
Suppose we swap" "a proposition to
which the doctor readily assented, al
though hts pencil, he said, was worth
two of the kind which the poet used.
Just before his death Mr.. Whittier
collected together all of his writings
prepared since he ceased to contribute
20 the press-the work of his old age
and had them published in a little
souvenir volume. which he entitled
cat Sun Down" title at once ap-
propriate and beautiful when taken
in connection with the life and char
acter OF the author. Only us copies
Of the books were published and these
were distributed by the author among
his personal friends and DIR. Condor
received one. on the fiy-leaf of which
was the autograph inscription of Mr..
Whittier
The book and pencil were r7ssed
around among the scholars for inspec-
ton. and added greatly TO the interest
of the occasion.
The erl ertainment in room / was
only a duplicate of what took place
in several of the other rooms. with the
exception of the address of DR.. Con
dom
1t was an afternoon long to be re-
membered by all who We're privilered
10 enjoy it. uniting as 1t did. pleasure
with profit. and certain to leave a
lasting impression on the minds of
the boys and girls Of the school that in
the future will surely bear good fruit.
THE HOUR AND MINUTE.