The Savannah morning news., 1901-01-13
3. II. LEVY s. BRO.

map. and how to teach history from
memory, this method provided for those
country schools whose scholars are un-
able to obtain books.
ScipiO's Teachings.
No fine wood-turnng is taught
for lack of funds. but the boys
quired his trade in old massa's time
gives instructions in matters that will be
actually needed in his pupils homes. They
are taught how to patch a roof when
means are wanting to reshingle 1t. How
to hammer out old stoveppe fiat and put
1t round pipe to prevent the roof from
taking fire. How to make a cupboard out
OF box. Taught to rip old boards apart
carefully so as not to spoil them for fu-
ture use. To splice a ioist, to put new
underpinning beneath a canting house
and how to do good work with antiquated
or interior tools. Graduates from Scipios
instruction go to Savannah or Charleston
and find ready employment at their trade.
Miss TONNES aim is to impress her
charges with the truth that their best
place is in the country and that labor
with hoe, plow and hand Is honorable
and TO be desired.
The printing class with the smallest Of
hand presses turns out creditable work.
being stimulated to overcome obstacles by
invention and showing marked ingenuity
| There is a sewing class continually in
progress fashioning garments for the aged
and sick. and the new born Miss Towne
does not believe in making the sewers
selfish. Their profit from labor is the
| skin acquired, but the product of their
| fingers out of the material furnished goes
! 10 the poor. A cooking class proper can
not be provided on present funds, but
| lessons are given in hygiene and nurs-
inS and cooking, receipts to be tried at
| homo and reported on. How 10 stew,
| fry and broil the oysters and crabs, with
which the creeks abound; how to make
| light" bread, and cook the indispensable
| rice and hominy that are standing dishes
| Advice is also given on the civilized way
OF laying table, instead OF each member
OF family taking their plateful OF food
Oft into a corner, as was the custom.
GuIIah Negroes.
The sea island negroes are of differ
! ont descent from the other Southern ne
groes and the chief obstacle that con-
fionted Miss Towne and her assistant
Miss Murray, on opening the school, was
the language. IL was months before teach
er and pupils understood each other, and
then only partially. please tell me your
name" would be asked of a pupil. and on
the girl being silent, a neighbor would
nudge her and say. Talk gal. buckra
him ak yonner" Your name" the teach
er would again ask and the timid scholar
answer, "Whada."
1t was only after three or four girls in
succession had given the same name that
Miss Towne discovered "Whada" 10 mean
Whats that?" or II don't understand. "
The school is well progressed now. Sew
eral Of its graduates are teachers, and its
influence has Ieavened the surrounding
denseness, but the founders remember WV
idly the quaint hindranoes at the start.
Numbers of these uulnstructed were shy
as rabbits. scutting off to the woods, or
under the house or the steps when a white
person approached. and only with difficult
ty suffering any one 10 look them
I'm the face. The boys and girls
were rugged out in the same or
der of nindescript garments. Gender
was to them thing unheard OF. every
being and every object being alluded 70
Unfortunately as him" The parents
We're desperately poor. and the teachers
felt that they addressed themselves 10 a