Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1897-05-08
IN THE SCHOOLRO0M.
Educational News from All Paris OF the
Pine Tree State.

Prospect is having all its schoolhouses
repaired.
Path has 1893 children of school age a
gain of 364 since 1895.
Houlton has 1906 children of school age
a slight increase over last year
There is talk of forming an alumni as
ISOLATION of the Rockland high school.
The school census of Brewer shows 14l9
scholars in the city, Il gain OF about %
over last year
Miss Cora Ames, supervisor of schools
at Pulpit Harbor, intends to introduce
the vertical system of writing in the
schools there soon.
Mrs. Charles B. Reade formerly of
Lewiston, has been chosen teacher OF
voice culture and singing in Olivet
Conservatory, Olivet Mich.
Ferguson Haines of Gardiner. has pre-
sented to the Biddeford high school IL
brary rare Greek lexicon that Is con-
sldered very valuable.
census taken recently at Old Town
shows that there are 1886 children of
school age. The average age of the
scholars is eleven and one-half The in
crease in numbers over last year is
eighty-siX.
The graduating exercises of the Orono
high school will be held June Is. The
class is composed of eight young ladies
and seven young men, being the largest
class of males the school has ever grad
uated at one time.
Miss Alice F. Waltz of Waldoboro,
has been engaged to teach the school at
Medomak. This will be the twenty-hfth
school she has taught, although she is
yet scarcely out of her teens She began
teaching when only IA years of age
Several years ago the Bridgton high
school was the recipient of many speci-
mems from the bureau of the government
,NI,;. al at,l
Principal Walter l.. Gray is carefully
arranging. 1t is a most interesting col
lection.
The Portland kindergarten rooms are
particularly well attended at this time OF
year. 1t now seems quite likely that the
school committee may soon be confronted
with the problem of whether or not one
or two more kindergartens shall be es-
tablished in the city.
An interesting and profitable sewing
school for little girls was conducted in
the Belfast school the past season. The
school had session of II weeks, meet
ing Saturday afternoons, with a total
membership of 46. They were taught to
cut. haste and sew, to sew on missing
boot buttons. darn mittenS and stockings.
etc and made G2 new garments. The
garments made We're not of the simplest
kind either. They made night-dresseS
dresses, skirts, waists. aprons, etc. The
ages of the little ones range from to H.
One little girl of years made herself
three garments. and another of the same
age walked a mile to school.
The schoolroom decoration fund. raised
by the special committee from the Port
land Woman Literary Union, has now
grown to more than 5000. The pictures
are now being purchased and apportfoned
among the various schools. No attempt
will be made to decorate each room in
every building, it being preferred to fit up
one or more rooms in a building, accord
ing to the proportion assigned. In the
North school, for instance. the largest
building in the city, four rooms are to be
furnished with pictures A definite plan
has been adopted by the committee for
the rooms to be decorated One primary
room will have pictures in colors. Some
grammar schoolroom Will be adorned
with pictures illustrating the colonial
history IF our country, another will be
devoted to revolutionary history and a
third to the history of the civil war. In
art subjects one room will be devoted to
what is to be found in Venice, another to
Paris.
The Athene club of Bangor. has put
into the hands of its education committee
the sum of $50 to be expended for school
room decoration. The aim of the com
mittee in using it will be 20 buy col
lection of excellent pictures. selected to
suit the needs of each grade, taking for
basis the list recommended by Henry
r. Bailey. supervisor of drawing in the
state of Massachusetts. For the young
est children there will be pictures of an
imal and child life chosen for their ar
tistc and ethical value. For more adj
vanced pupils works requiring more dis
eliminating study will be purchased. The
pupils will study the pictures under the
direction of the drawing teacher and will
thus learn in a pleasant and practical
way the underlying principles of art, as
well as something of the lives of IA
nous artists and of the history of paint
ing. Their taste will be educated to APP
preciate the real merits of a picture and
they will be less likely to admire worth
less productions. The collection will
travel from one room to another. in the
same grade remaining some weeks in
Zach, SO that all the pupils of all our
schools may receive the educational ben
efats or acquaintance with masterpieces
This movement in schoolroom decora-
ton was inaugurated in Brooklne, Mass
and is being extensively carried out al
over the country.