The Jersey City news., 1902-05-29

SCHOOLS
Children Prepare With
Eagerness and zest
for Decoration Day
MAI. BRENSINCER'S
PUPILS FOREMOST
Their Exercises Include
Representations From
Our Wars in the
Past.
ADDRESSES BY OFFICERS
Flags Unfurled and Saluted-
Recitations, Essays and
Songs by the Lit
tile Ones.
ADDRESSES BY OFFICERS


tie lad scarce six years old. stood rub
bIng his tiny, muddy fists into tear
stained eyes, thereby making more mud
which lowed down his cheeks ike lava
down the sides of a volcano, while from
somewhere way down in the little .nsice
came a deep soobing sound. There was
no other eruption the tiny mouth
had barely yet learned to talk.
On the ground lay the rem
nants of an earthen flower pot with
a small geranium spilled out and broken.
IL was only one of a thousand on its way
to school to be given to the living soldiers
for their dead comrades on the morrow.
yet its loss had we'll nigh broken the
small donors heart, until a kind lady
dried his eyes with little silver dime.
from little silver purse that he might
buy another.
After all Decoration Day was not in
vented merely as a holiday of excursions,
games and gaiety. 1t was invented IN
memory of our dead soldiers, and the
school children seem to catch its spirit or
patriotism in a way to put their elders to
shame 1t Is one of the best of history 3
teachers. You may ask the small school
Boy why he celebrates the Fourth OF July
and receive all sorts of erroneous an
swers, but VINO ever heard of a child fail
ing to associate Decoration Day with our
dead soldiers? And this is the reason
because from his earliest school days ne
is given an important part TO play--he IS
taught the meaning of the day through
methods purely kindergarten-in furnish
ing flowers for the soldiers graves.
So in Jersey City today thousands of
blossoms are standing in the school hal
ways awaiting the arrival of the G. A. Il.
wagons to bear them to the grave.
The almost endless procession of chill
dren bearing flowers on their way to
school this morning was a pretty sight,
and the pride those children took in their
gifts would bring tears to the eyes of an
old patriot Later in the day appropriate
exercises of recitation and music were
held in all the schools.
In order to still further the spirit Of
patriotism engendered in the children,
delegations of G. A. r. men from Van
Houten Post and Wilson Post visited each
school and in person thanked the boys
and girls for their floral gifts. Each
school was also addressed by a director
from the Board of Education
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