The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-07-30

l extended until now there are rev, II any l schools that have manual training SC l well developed in the primary grades. | As A demand for his sort Of work is springing up all over the country gnu =, z, ! the teachers. themselves untraineo toI l its introduction, are ever on the aiert te discover ways and means of doing IL | Miss Mack had the work or the Z'OVo pn' | pills in her grades on exhibition aL ~tne l high school during the Central Illinois | Teachers Association in Bloomington III | the spring. In this display was sno"h great variety of work in different mate, rials. Paper, cardboard. yarn, cord ana i burlap were among the things used. Quill matches cushions. needle books. fancy | pen wipers and other novelties were pien- tifui. There were tarletan candy pass' fspool-knitting mats with fancy edges, osc- orated ba skets of cardboard and a large variety of them of reeds ana rama anu of yarn. There were mats of burlap oian, ket-stiched. braided of rafiia or rags ana sewed, hats of braided raffia or tissue pa per-, purses of ool-knitting and or WOW en rafia, handbags woven, braided ana sewed and knotted of raffia or shoestrlngs, sunbonnets of woven raffia, Eskimo sledges and kayaks. chairs. tables ana other articles of Bristol board furniture, dressed dolls of several descriptions and many other things which make attractive work for little people. While there was similarity of material and products. there was also individuality of pupils and teachers shown in the sub- jects and finishing touches. Great efforts had been made to lead children to utilize inexpensive and waste materials. Up to that time fthe last of March) the cost had not exceeded cents per pupil. ts,
 As each pupils work was put out. Just as it was, some of 1t was unfinished ana Id uua done f0 show the honest effort of every pupil, rather than to make a pretty display or the best pieces. Nevertheless the mass or the work was neat, very attractive ana represented articles of practical use.
 Another feature of this display was showing of some community work rom each school. Each first and second grace in the city made and furnished some kinn of a house during the year. As the story of siIverhair Is used in the first grade literature, several made the home of the three bears-the big. big bear. the middle sized bear and the wee. wee bear These showed the work of pupils under the ol- rection and when necessary with the alo of the teacher Most of this work was done outside of school hours, but in the schoolroom by willing workers.
 Here individuality and great cleverness were shown. One of the bear houses IS
 
 per bears and yet others by clay ones. A novel and very appropriate home Tor these wood-folk is made of wooden oox covered with pieces of bark lichens, moss es and pressed leaves. One made or cracker boxes daubed brown has a matched roof and stands in a forest or branches stuck into spools for standaros:
 An ingenious teacher brought some or the tanitors kindling from the basement. These strips were to represent log nut which stood on a sward of green paper, surrounded by little evergreen trees Bears are numerous In the vicinity. Pa per bears are in the house and on the roof, while clay bears are under the trees.
 A cleverly designed cottage tastily fur nished has portico across the front, Whlcn is hinged and swings back to show the in- terior A different representation sent oy a second grade school is the cave of Rob inson Crusoe made of clay and surrounded by a stockade of small sticks.
 One first grade school worked out some thing quite original. The Snow Baby, by Josephine D. Peary, wife of Lieuten- ant Peary, had been used for literature. In a field of cotton batting to suggest snow stood representation of the house in which the babe was born. Four rag dolls dres, ed in Eskimo suits were for characters in the story. The sewing was almost all done by the pupils under the teachers direction, but she needed to assist in getting the parts together. Stones, bones, a wine bottle, clay, paper, scraps of fur, trinkets and various sorts of trash were utilized In illustrating the story. To the uninitiNed 1t seemed queer collection, but to the children who helped the thing to grow it was veri- table bit of Eskimo land. With 1t were ~ toe nd rNtnt of birds and animals which frequent arc tic regions.
 A couple of dozen corn-shuck dolls made in a room just before Thanksgiving time were so comical that they attracted con- siderable attention. They were made by the pupils following the teachers direc- tions but dressed by the pupils at home. One little colored girl attempted to dress hers in puritan style In reply to a question the teacher remarked to some visitors that more were not made because the supply of shucks gave out. She has since had the promise from country teach CTS of so many that she expects to be able to divide with the other primaries in the fall.
 Interesting Wool Chart Shown.
 A thing which Miss Mack took great pride in showing. because she considered 1t one of the most important things in the display, was a wool chart made by a room of first and second grade. This was headed by a copy of Lost" a fa- nous painting of sheep. There were also a picture of a sheepfold and a sheep shearing scene. Of course these had been subjects of discussions in the room. The series of articles began with a bit of fleece. Then came a bit of oily, un- washable wool, some dyed wool, some carded and rolled. twisted in a single twist, two-ply. three-ply, four-ply. To make the twists more distinguishable, each was of different color. Then came a small mat made entirely by hand by pupils who, after taking the wool through all these processes, had woven 1t. At one side was a picture of Mary and her Lamb" cut from an old reader. Under this was written: Things which Mary can make from her lambs wool" This was surrounded by little hood. dress