The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1897-04-29

To be as sweet as a red rosa
What mus. a body do?
To be as sweet as red rose.
A little girl like YOU,
Just grows and grows and grows.
And that's what she must do.
The seventh number on the most tu-
venile programme 10 another poem. cho-
sen 10 ft the ina ginations of the tots
for whom IL is arranged. Il is entitled
How the Flowers Grow
First a seed so tiny.
Hidden from the sight;
Then two pretty leaflets
Struggling toward the HgHn:
Soon bud appearing,
Turns into a flower.
Kissed by golden sunshine,
Washed by silver shower:
Growing sweeteT, sweeler,
Every happy hour,
Kissed by golden sunshine,
Washed IN silver shower"
The reference in the above number TO
golden sunshine and silver shower" is
undoubtedly intended TO fncuicate hi-
metallic theories in the minds OF the lit
tie ones. many OF whom viii, az some
time. have something 10 say about the
currency OF the country. This belief Is
justified by the repetition of the lines in
which the ring OF metal IS heard. The
last event on the programme for the
first grade Is the choosing by vote OF
flower emblematic OF the year.
The literary tone of the programmes
for the second, third and fourth years be-
comes heavier as the time spent in the
schools is heightened, until the grammar
school deals with some of the English
masterpieces. appropriate TO the occa-
sion, intricate in meter and deep in mean
ing. Essays on historical trees. Tho
Charter Oak The Washington Elm"
THE Liberty Elm" and 1.-The Treaty
Tree VIII be interesting. Washington's
cherry tree is entirely overlooked. al
though ii has most important bearing
in shaping Juvenile minds on a subject
that is generally considered important.
The fifteenth number in the grammar
school programme is Frank Dempster
Sherman's April:
Unseen. alone. young April stood in
And watched to see the white plumed
hunters so
Raiding the hilisides and the wales be-
March and his mad marauders of the
year.
Gray hung the skies. and bleak the world
When. far away. she heard his bugles
Ever more family. Then did April
The time of her long waited quest was
SO forth she went with all her timid
Bearing new joy unto the ravished
world.
Music and gladness. blossoms. leaf.
and wing;
And where she slept, gold sun and silver
rain
Followed and on the earth once more
unfurled
Her glorious banners in the court OF
spring"
Each grade succeeding the first, chooses
a class flower and the grammar school
has classified essays on plants. The food
plants, medicinal plants and plants from
which cloth is made. with subdivisions
on what they are, where found. how
grown and how prepared. There are also
essays on The State Flower" and Tho
National Flower"
1t is suggested that each school devote
the afternoon to the programme and to
outdoor planting and decoration OF the
school grounds The assistance of the pa
rents should be solicited. and the day
should be marked by an intense love for
life and nature.
SUpt. Barnard says that at each one of
the city schools programme has been
arranged by the principal and the teach
ers. in which great interest has been
taken not only by those who have pre-
pared them, but by the children who will
participate in their rendition. Friday
afternoon there will be no recitations or
classes. and the full time of the session
will be given Up TO the poetic and musical
observance of the occasion.