The Savannah morning news., 1902-02-23

occasion, so II Chey care TO conceal
what they probably regard as a daring
adventure they stand in no danger of
being exposed by the artist. And there
is small chance of their experiencing
the embarrassment of later meeting
the artist socially, for the circle in
which the artist moves is not likely to
interest the circle which she has
her being.
"Once in a long while 1 again see
one of these girls who has posed for
mel get q glimpse of her in a Fifth
avenue shop or in a passing carriage.
Only a few nights age. when leaving
the Metropolitan Opera House. l saw
being helped into her carriage a
splendid young woman who about a
year ago forced me to give her a sit
ting
The new type of American girl is not
alone in her devotion to outdoor games
and amusements. All the daughters
of the comtesse de Paris have been
given an athletic training. They are
expert swimmers, and the eldest,
Queen Marie Amilie, of Portugal pos
sesses the Prussian medal for saving
life, as she once rescued a man from
drowning. Princess Louise, who crops
her hair like a boy, is a capital shot,
but not so good as her mother The
stately Duchess d'Aosta swims and
rides admirably, and is a good rifle and
postol shot. The Duchess de Guise is
the only one of the sisters who does
not care either for athletics or outdoor
. pursuits.
Probably no woman in the country
has met as many public men as Miss
Caledonia Mccall of the sixth auditors
office at Washington. She is a native
of Florida, and early in life became an
interested student of the various po-
litical changes in that state, and by
numerous contributions to the press
soon won the notice of the statesmen
of the land OF flowers" Coming to
Washington, she accepted a position In
the pension office. Resigning in 1896
she was given a place of great respon-
sibility with the Republican National
Campaign Committee at Chicago,
where by her ability she managed
many matters usually devolving upon
trained politicians. Upon one occa-
sion Miss Mccall. having temporarily
severed her connection with the gov
ernment service and experiencing some
delay in securing a reinstatement, the
Florida Legislature, then in session,
passed joint resolution requesting
Secretary Hoke Smith to place her
name upon the rolls. This is probably
the only case of the kind on record
and speaks highly of the esteem with
which Miss Mccall was held by the
legislators of her native state.
This is a true story about ten pins
and $500 little girls and about the new
method of taching the children of the
Newark public schools to be careful
with their belongings.
FEW days ago, says the New York
sun, the principals and teachers in the
city's fifty public schools were noti-
fed that hereafter they must be more
business-like in giving out pins to the
sewing classes and that a rigid and
accurate accounting would be expect
ed of every pin allotted to the girls in
these classes. Each girl is to get ten
pins when she begins sewing in the
SiXuh Grade grammar and when she
completes the course at the end of
the eighth year, she must return the
pins or as many others.
Each girl has a small pasteboard
box in which she is supposed to keep
her needles, pins, thread, scissors, etc,
and at the end of the sewing period
she must pack her materials neatly in
the box, leave the box on her desk for
the inspection of the teacher, and then
put on the lid and place the. box in
her desk
There has been little bother over
ed to vanish as if they had wings. No
doubt the Janitors have swept them
up by the dustpanful and in the sum-
mer vacation, when the cBassrooms are
thoroughly overhauled, pins have been
brought UP from the cracks in the
floor by the hundreds.
Then the girls while busy with sew
ing in class have stuck pins in their
frocl<s, only to forget all about them
until they got home, when they would
seldom remember to take them to
school the next morning. From the
time the sewing lesson began until it
ended, there has always been a con-
tinual demand for pins.
In many instances paper of $50
pins would scarcely last a week in a
class. The officials. when they heard
of this extravaganza, grew grave and
now have evolved the new rule which
holds every girl to strict accountable
ity for her ten pins, which she receives
when she starts sewing in the Sixth
Grade.
She may turn them in to her teach
er at the end of the year, or per-
haps she may be permitted to take
them with her into the Seventh
Grade, but if this last is allowed she
is simply putting off the day of ac-
counting for, sooner or later, she will
be officially asked:
w flal nave YOU uOilS WIN ttlO9C A-h
pins? Produce them"
Under the new system $4,000 pins
will be supplied to the children of the
Newark public schools who sew, since
there are 2,500 of them. This means
seventy papers. A paper of pins
bought at wholesale costs the Board Of
Education four cents, so the pin bill
each year will be about $3.50. Hither
to it has been nearer SIS d year, so
the actual saving in dollars and cents
will be about $12.
1--WE don't care so very much about
the saving of money said an official
of the Board of Education, "for it is a
trihe. We will explain to- the chill
dren, however, how much can be done
with $12 and let them understand that
each one OF them is contributing her
small share toward saving this
amount"
'"Hhe chief lesson to be learned, and
the real value of the new rule, is to
impress upon these girls that pin is
an article of possession, that it has
it's value and should not be dealt with
carelessly. A girl who is careful with
pins will soon learn to be careful about
everything.
"That little pin habit may do a
world of good. We do not ask them 70
follow out the old adage: See pin
and pick it up and so on. for we have
no business to direct their actions out
of school and some cranky parent
might object TO 1t. But we do insist
that they shall take care Of the things
we give them to use, even pins"