New-York tribune., 1901-07-19
IN VACATION SCHOOLS.
SEVERAL NEW FEATURES INTRODUCED
THIS SUAIAfER-GIRLS SING AS
THEY SEW.

Some interesting sights are to be seen daily IN
and about Public School No. 16O, at Rivington and
Suffolk SITS. during these vacation sessions The
new feature introduced into this and some other
vacation schools this year is the correlating OF
the manual training and industrial work. Under
the ole method a child was kept at drawing and
painting other single form of work
through the whole morning and remained in that
class during the season. but he has one
period OF the morning for the designing and an
other for weaving other branch OF
industry. 1t is said that the plan thus far works
well. the children seeming TO enjoy the change.
We find it better 10 adhere TO no strict rules
Of order in these manual classes" said the princi
nal of the school TO Tribune reporter yesterday.
The girls CT the sewing classes seemed TO be tax
ing the best advantage of this liberty, for the
visitor entered she greeted by a chorus OF
voices singing "Suwanee River in rather nveer
tempo than the song is usually rendered the
singers meantime making their needles fly busy
over the dolls underclothes which they were MAX
ing. They were learning Just then TO finish off
French seams. laying neat stitches IN the little
sarments-
Up stairs in the carpenter shop the boys were
chatting merrily while they worked over the wood
en- kite frames, which are TO be fitted with paper
and cord The little fellows in the painting class
took utmost delight in their work. "Oh yes" said
the teacher. they like to steal a chance to paint
their faces or their noses" The kindergarten
children had just had talk about the seashore
and were modelling clay pals for use on their
miniature beach made in the sand tray and
stretching beside a billowy ocean of green tissue
paper, Last week the subject OF the talk was Cen
HaI Fark Inc cool schoolrooms, with the Clean
interested faces OF the children were a sharp con-
irast 10 the street the sidewalks of which were
hned with pushcarts and thronged with shoppers
60 mat IN places they We're almost impassable
ttere the children unable to be accommodated in
the schools filed every unoccupied stoop or bit of
eurbstone What caused most sensation among
these little folk miniature stage drawn by
plump Shetland pony, with conspicuous sign
on the vehicle. oh, mamma, here comes the pony
-one cent ridei" said tot. Apparently there
were not many pennies to spare. for the stage had
only a single small occupant
a few OF these children drift into the playground
ol me College Settlement, the public at Hes
ter-st being too far away. The Settlement opens
It's yard 10 boys and girls alterna tely, finding II
easier 10 manage the children when they are thus
separated The residents there doing good
work In the frequent children's excursions which
they organize, when about fifteen or twenty at
TINE are taken 10 spend day at Midland Beach
or Bronx Park. The visit to the geological garden
az Bronx Park IS never failing source Of de-
llght 10 these boys and girls, and even those who
nave had outing of two weeks under some
iresh air mission find great relief during the re-
uainder Of the summer in these occasional trips