New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-08-11
THEY LOVE THEIR SCHOOL
Vacation Youngsters Sorry When
Summer Glasses Close.

When Shakespeare wrote of the schoolboy
with his satchel and shining morning face creep
ing like snail unwllngly to school," it is evi-
dent that he had never seen a vacation school
Otherwise he would probably have used another
simte, for 1t is when leaving not when going to-
school that vacation students walk with unwilling
feet.
Il wish" said a busy girl student to a Tribune
reporter yesterday that the vacation schools
would keep open until the others open in Sep
TENDER"
land aren't you bit tired girls?" asked the
principal addressing the class.
mo, SIR they answered in a convincing chorus.
''They don't seem TO know what being tired is, y
said the teacher. Indeed. I am sometimes In
clined TO wish that they were less energetic. for
it is hard TO keep them in work. and we have been
somewhat limited in our supply of material"
EMBROIDERY THEIR DELIGHT.
This was in Public School No. 20 Rivington and
Forsyth sts Of which H. W. Smith is principal,
and the class IN question was doing embroidery
And everywhere 1t just the same. The chill
dren were so occupied in making hats, or weaving
baskets or beating iron, or designing cathedral
windows that they scarcely looked up When
visitor entered.
The embroidery has been a very popular Glass;
and II there had been three times as many teachers
they could easily have been kept busy. but there
has been an even greater demand for admission to
the classes in millinery and crocheting. There are
three classes in millinery, and hundreds OF mats
have been turned out, but there is only one In
crocheting and knitting. and many disappointments
have been the result. Sewing does not take so well,
but one girl applied admission to the class only
the other day because she anxious to learn
how to repair her own clothes. So she was al
lowed to enter though it was 80 late in the term
to make it scarcely worth while
BAsKETRY FOR THE ROYs.
The bows take TO basketry more kindly than the
girls for the obvious that the materials
wifi nd CTt nd blister the
hands in most distressing manner. Still, there is
one girls class in basketry which has done ex-
cellent work.
The kindergarten classes are as popular those
in millinery and four hundred five hundred chill
dren might easily have been enrolled in them If
there had been teachers enough. One Of these
classes of which there are three or four, is par
tcularly interesting 1t had the misfortune TO lose
gaeh ssy on 5h ec6n gt the fhe e folks
decided that they could manage themselves. and
Walter a tiny little maid, who does not appear to
be more than seven or eight, assumes general
tsaehers in the choo aeGFd4g to the p bT M
Dorothy Bauer and Miss Ida Walter
THE TRANSITION CLASS
Between the kindergarten and the industrial
classes is transition class, called the class in So
caI occupations. and the children have been much
interested in making blue prints of flowers. They
have also built and furnished a little dolls house
is the nature study room. TO which all the classes
go for half hour two or three times a week
Several large boxes of soil were provided. in which
the children planted seeds Of various kinds from
potatoes to fax. and Of which was laid out as
a farm. with dimunitve fences and farm buildings
and toy livestock. They have also had collections
of butterflies and any quantity of wildhowers.
The nature study room at Public School No. 20
is in charge of Miss Blanche Biederman, and the
farm has been object Of intense interest to the
children.
How the things grow!' they kept saying to
Miss Riederman. What makes them grow?'
All the work Of preparing the soil and planting
the seeds was done by the children themselves
with cunning little rakes, hoes and spades pro-
vided by the Board of Education for the purpose
The vacation schools will all close on Friday, ana
up to that time No. 20 will be open to any one who
cares TO the kind Of work that is being done.
The schools opened July ., and have had only
morning sessions, that they have had only thirty
half days 70 work in.
The vacation schools and Fairgrounds are super
intended by Miss Evangeline Whitney. who Is ar
ranging exhibit of their work to be sent 10 81
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