New-York tribune., 1902-03-02
DECORATING CLASSROOMS.
PUBLIC EDUCATION ASSOCIATIONS GIFTS
TO PUBLIC school. NO. !.
Whittier away so dolefully?"
We're going to learn our a B G.


We're going to study our P's and nd Q.s
The old nursery rhymes are losing their force
in these modern days. for the children rush
10 school joyfuly they used leave it.
Yesterday the larger pupils of Public School NO
Hester and Chrystie SITS. spent half the holiday
in wandering through the schoolr1oms. looking at
the pictures and other decorations just presented
by the Public Education Association of New-York.
Only those who had tickets could enter. as
otherwise the crowd would have been too large
for comfort. The favored ones. consequently, wore
an air of importance and their best clothes Girls
and boys We're there, studying the pictures
in groups. some preferring solitary rambies. and
all with catalogue in hand.
With much good nature and politeness they often
constituted themselves guides TO the visitors from
the outside world who came in response to the
invitations sent out by the art committee Of the
association.
one grave faced boy, who was addressed pleas
anty by a young woman with a question regard
ing his preference in pictures. whether Landscapes
or people. answered decsiveIy:
People of course. They alive," He
then attached himself to her for the remainder of
the tour, and his naive observations often showed
a good deal of keenness. The pictures were not
numbered in several of the rooms and the boy
displayed much shrewdness in Identifying them by
the catalogue titles.
They look like Il kings children" he said, look
Ing carbon print of the Van Dyke portrait Of
the children of Charles L. His comment on the
Don BathaZar Carlos OF NeaSlutZ was:
"He dou't look a bit afraid that big horse,
though he is such little chap That's dandy
horse
Twenty -four In the school have been
furnished with pictures by the association. and in
each the subjects chosen with special reference
to the mental development or the class. from the
primary grade upward. In rooms Nos. l, 2 and l.
the decorations were presented by Mrs. Victor Sor
chan and include plaster casts of animals, Indian
pottery, casts OF Donatello ana Della Robbia chill
dren and carbontypes OF famous pictures.
Mrs James Wright Markoe gave the twenty pict-
ures and casts In room No. y. and Mrs. Edward
Mitchell Townsend jr., the eighteen in room No. l3
Miss Ella Mabel Clark contributed those in room
No. 10, which consist Of eleven paintings OF land
sCape subjects and several plaster casts.
The committee presented the fine Autographs
casts and carbon prints in No. IA. It. 80 and
y. Jacob W Mack contributed largely to the last
room.
Miss Julia Isham gave the valuable collection OF
Audubons birds Of America. reproductions of which
ar" not now obtatEable. IN room No. IS. and Miss
Annie Archboid decorated room No %.
Room No. 30 was decorated by Mrs. Richard Ewel
Brown and Miss Anna III. Iusk; No. 81 by
Mrs. F. II. Belts; No. "a by Mrs. oliver g.
Jennings, and room No 30 by Mrs Peter Cooper
Hewitt. Seven rooms received their adornment
from Mrs. Schuyler Van Rensselaer,, being fur
nShed with pictures of famous English and Amer
lean poets and their homes
All the Schoolrooms have growing plants, given
by the nature study committee OF the association
that the children the pussy willows
bud and the lilaCs sprout.