The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1903-03-06
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produced from set of pen-and-ink draw
ings made later by the same youthful ar
fist.
After the city sewers had been disposed
of a party OF ninety boys and girls were
given a special trip down the drainage
canal in order to study it's construction
and uses Who paid the expenses Inc
city OF Chicago. One notable feature about
this work is the fact that everybody who
hears of Ii seems eager to help these young
students in their effort to understand the
canal trip. for instance. there was boat
to take the party, a luncheon for each one'
there were ice cream. lemonade and pop
corn-all the adjuncts of good. frolicSome
picnic--furnished free of charge
This is the way the twentieth century
children are studying that dry old subject
SO much for pure drinking water, good
plumbing and proper sewage Ii Is easy TO
the study of the work OF the Health De-
partment but they are only the beginning
of it, after all. Ask any member Of those
civics classes about our laws for the in-
spection of meat or milk, or for insuring
the purity of ice-or even candy. You'll
be likely to learn some facts you hadn't
ing you, for they have been where these
laws being enforced, have personally
interviewed the parties concerned, and
hav seen things with their own eyes.
Are you posted about the public taths of
your city? They are; they have visited
them. DO you know all about our method
or dlSpOSlng or garbage! ANY one OF tneSe
youngsters can give you lecture on that
il you ask for il, and you may get 1t with
out asking If they see you throwing banana
peels where they don't belong. You would
better be careful, too how you ignore
the advice of the Board OF Health about
what Dickens called the American fury
school the other day and told how she had
rebuked man for splitting on her mothers
kitchen floor: She had warned him, not
only from the standpoint of cleanliness.
hnf hpCanSp he SnrpQdfnR disease
germs. And / came near saying" sha
added. that I'd just tell my ciyics teacher
on him If he did Ii again.
One day Health Commissioner Reynolds
came out and gave little talk to these
pupils in civics. Do you imagine that any
of the boys and girls who saw and heard
him then ever miss a report in the daily
press that is signed with his name?t No.
indeed! And they know all about whether
gerous'' each day. and understand exactly
why it's condition will be improved when
the great lake front sewer, now being
the southern part of the city can flow north
through that and be pumped into the Thir-
ty-ninth-street fntercepting sewer which 10
stead OF leaving 1t to empty into the lake.
as IL does nowi
HOW THE STUDY BRANCHES OUT.
The fire department has been studied.
too; the children have been out on one OF
the river fireboats; they can tell you all
about it's steel construction and how it
can shoot a voiley OF water powerful
enough to batter down heavy walls. They
have attended meetings OF the City Council
and heard the discussions there. and they
look in the paper every Tuesday morning
to see what the Council said and did the
night before Municipal ownership rs more
than a phrase to them. IL Ia a live issue
And then, after city affairs have become
familiar. they pass, with the same vivid
s..&2 Int. A.rfa tn Of
to State and of State to Union.
Before those visitors left the school that
morning they had found surprises In other
department, as well as that OF civfcs. They
had In fact. been having a series of de-
lightful revelations such as must befall
any casual visitor who is getting his eyes
open for the first time TO the work that
is being done I'm the schools or this city.
In the mathematics classes they had
come upon methods that made them ex-
claim. .'Oh, IL they had only done IL this
way when We went TO schoolr' In the
matter of musical instruction, in the his
tory and English classes. It, had been the
same story They had been shown ed
itorials and book reviews written by boys
and girls OF thirteen. and written well
enough to put to the blush many such
articles that find their way into print:
they had found youngsters reading and
loving not only Shakespeare. but Robert
Browning; they had read reviews OF such
poems as Browning's Saul and "Memora-
bila.'' penned by critics OF twelve, and
not only full OF good ideas and thorough
UNDERSTANDING, put artlStfcally decorated
with Illuminated initials and marginal
sketches.
They had realized for the first time how
the art work I'm the public school OF to-day
Is begun in the first grade and carried on
steadily a supplement TO all the studies
in all the grades II the subject OF a
ciyics paper. for instance, happened TO be
street cleaning In Holland. there would
be characteristic scene of the country up
in one corner, and. perhaps. a pair OF
wooden shoes dropped I'm somewhere half
way down the page, quite in the fashion
OF our best magazine illustrations Here
was art combined with civics.
Nor this all. Among specimens OF
work done by the seventh and eighth
grades the visitors had seen a wall full
OF original designs for book covers and
title pages. some OF which would have done
credit TO professional They had heard,
I too, how often this kind OF work. begun
here. led naturally 10 the life business OF
the pupil; and had been informed with
some pride that graduate OF this same
school was now at work as an illustrator
for Harper's-
These are only q few of the good things
being done in one public school OF Chicago
the Forestville at Forty-fifth street and
ST. Lawrence avenue