The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-04-15
The New| Of Selma.

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 The public schools of Selma have al- repdy part of the scheme. Writing, which ts regarded az . part of manual | training. has of course long been taught. is its position & in the three R's guarsntseinS drawing, which is not so necessary in bread and butter life. was added num- Der of years ago and proved goodly | step in the right direction.
 | Within comparatively recent years. however. the system has been 50 gem orally adopted in this city as to embrace 1 the parliamentary. features of the perfect has been made through the efforts of | the regular teachers of the schools and | without the assistance of specialists won- ders have been worked and the faculties foundation upon which they might build. l Writing and drawing are taught in all | grades and in addition to these exercises
 ss gups are sssH tses work r.osa in other | the school, for instance, paper folding is | used to train the hand and the eye In the fourth and fifth grades the folding of paper E continued and rstaa work be- benefit of the uninitiated that raffia work is merely the plating of rafi1a, grass that grows in the country where the neon always looks warm and the sun ai- and sinks straight to the westward. In the sixth grades rafiia work is still a part of the daily task: but the girls be-
 gin to sew and the boys are allowed to do sIoyd work. which is nothing more than | whiting with a purpose--the carving of ! chairs and knick-knacks with now and | Sgafn something useful. And during the
 rest of the. school career. through the seventh and eighth grades and through tho high school, sioyd work and raffia work and sewing are done.
 And of all these little accomplishments
 there are in the rooms of Selma's schools l there are evidences In plenty of the sabil- ity and care of the teacher in training and of the energy and interest of the
 taught in being trained. There are dainty
 and pretty little paper designs made by the smaller children, oriental looking hats and mats and baskets of rafla,
 clever bits of woodwork and some fine
 creditable pictures done in pencil and pen and ink and even some wash drawings.
 The members of the faculty have taught
 all this without any special preparation
 for 1t but have, t might almost be said.
 When asked about the feasibility of ex-
 tending the system in the public schools of this city. Professor Hardaway said:
 T think 1t feasible and that 1t would
 be of great advantage The greatest ex- pense would be the salary of the special l trainer who would be necessary. A special
 workshop for the Atlanta public schools ! was fitted up with all the apparatus
 needed for s40O and as we have two extra rooms in the Baker school house it would certainly cost us no more than this sum.
 The materials are generally furnished by
 the pupil but are inexpensive and would
 add but little to the cost of tuition.
 have found manual training to be excel
 lent as means of education and believe that an extension of 1t in our schools
 would be of great value in adding to our facilities for teaching"
 l Professor Hardaway and Colonel Nell
 son will make report upon their inves-
 Trustees in June and the matter will
 doubtless be taken up definitely at that
 time.
 Craig Goes to Annistcn.
 Senator William B. Craig will leave to- morrow for Anniston to attend meeting
 of a subcommittee of the committee ap- pointed by the Legislature to draft laws
 which are necessary under the state of
 affairs brought about by the new Con- stitution. The subcommittee of which
 Senator Craig is a member, is composed of Senators Blackmon of Calhoun. Castle
 berry of Talladega and Craig of Dal-
 las. These gentlemen have been at work
 at their homes on the subjects assigned them by the chairman of the commit tee at the meeting held in Montgomery
 immediately after the adjournent of the
 Anniston and revise their work before reporting to the. whole committee.
 In an interview tonight. Senator Craig
 expressed the opinion that the whole
 committee would probably meet in Mont
 gomery in May or June In -snswer to
 the question as to how long the whole committee would probably be in session,
 Senator Craig said that it was impossi-
 ble to tell, as the work assigned to the
 committee was of such a character as
 to require great deal of care. and the number of subjects to be handled made
 the work necessarily long. It had been
 the purpose of the committee from the | beginning, he said, to continue in session l as few days as possible. The work had EoNe 4txrfA AAA kt.nv -E \. different subcommittee to be done as far as possible at the homes of the mem l bers. They hoped to accomplish the whole
 work with as short session of the com mittees as possible. and thus lessen the expense to the State.
 Daughters of Confederacy. The Selma Chapter of the United Daughters of the Confederacy met this afternoon and decided that the Memorial | Day exercises should be held Saturday. | April 25. instead of Sunday, April s6 1 The Chapter elected Mrs. J. A. McKin- non. Miss Mary Lewis and Miss Ida Pea cock delegates. and Miss Julia Frances l Clark. Mrs. T. F. Whitby and Mrs. M. | R. Jarvis. alternate delegates to the | State Convention of the Daughters of the Confectionery to be held in Tuscaloosa. The Dixie German.
 The report that the german of the Dixie Club tomorrow evening had been post poned is erroneous. The dance will be- gin at 9:30 as originally announced.
 Bishop and Bowen Leave.
 B. Bishop, one of the men convicted of | insulting two young ladies, paid his fine | this afternoon. and, in company with | Bowen, who had already paid his fine, | left the city on the Western train, going | by way of Montgoieery. It IS understood | that Bowen went to Chicago and Bishop to Columbus, Ga. The men were escort ed to the Union Depot by Sheriff Black | we'll. Chief of Police Walters and Off, cer Ethridge. The latest report Is that 1 Miller, the other of the trio involved in the trouble. had no's paid his fine and is | still in jail.
 No Manager Found.
 | J. B. Timberlake of Montgomery, who l has heAn fin the citY. for the nurnose of