New-York tribune., 1904-10-14

1h2a Rnd eGore% eooT9a wF 9Fsh 9b T gt1s atqn dew
That openest when the quiet light.
Succeeds the keen and frosty night
bryant
1t is as blue the sky amt ito exclaimed the
tall dark boy delight and surprise mingIing in his
clear young voice
The crowd Of East Side schooboyz who were
lowering over the glass jar Of frfnged gentians
pressed closer TO the beautiful flower
And It does look up 10 the sky Just as BRYANT
says it does don't it," cried another batting the
fringes on particularly wide open flower lovingly
Aw. don't going paving it over-csin't yer enjoy
1t widout setru Yer hooks onter it, expostuated
tough-looking yoUnEster, whose dirty shirt and
tousled head proclaimed a poor home and sIattern
OF 4 mother
Looking rather hurt at the criticism conveyed IN
this rebuke the other lad quickly removed his
hook"
I wasn't harminS them any" he said III you
loved those fringed gentians ike I do you'd want
TO pet them Yourself"
It was At the autumn fruit and flower show which
Mrs john L Northrop and the nature material
committee Of the Public Education Association are
holding in the basement Of Public School No. 79 at
No. IS First-st.
"They never saw so many fringed gentans be-
fore" explained teacher. THE grammar boys
have been learning Bryant's 'To u Fringed Cen
tan.' but only had one flower to pass around
through all the classes. they didn't a very
strong impression. Now that thoy seo many
! fifteen or twenty all together they in
ecstasies. They take peculiar interest in seeing
how we'll Bryant knew his sentian, and how
curately he was able to describe it
By this time the group OF young nature lovers
had moved along 10 the cases OF stuffed birds
mollusks worms and other specimens sent down
from the Museum of Natural History by Or
Bumpus
Among the shells was fine chambered nautilus
Build thee more stately mansions. Q my soul
nlurmured little Jew. as he stood before it,
The boys had been learning Holiness "Chambered
Nautilus" and quick to spy the Cham1ered
cells, the 'irised ceiling and the sunless crypt"
Then there were the nuts-the horse chestuuts
with their foliage. all growing OF a quart milk
bottle. and piles Of walluts, hickories and horse
chestuuts
Here take one Of the cheztnuts." said a teacher
| 10 one of tho boys, handing nut 20 him in its
| shaggy burr.
Gee but he's a sticker" exclaimed the re-
cipient clasping it firmly in his fingers. He evil
! IDENTIFY did not know it had sharp spurs and was
! intensely surprised 10 dnd it could hurt
Nothing in the whole show-Rot even the apples
! growing on the rose bushes" the tomatoes and
/ tomato vines and shocks that draped the
| pillars. the russet and red autumn Ieaves-gave
such unalloyed pleasure the toad and the Florida
| lizard in 4 little wire covered cage and the woolly
bear. caterpars, crickets. grasshoppers and black
| sphinx caterpillars another little neat safe ar
| rangement, which formed part OF Mrs Northrop's
! gifts 10 the show. The toad unuckily. was a shy
( isitow, who spent most or mis- time under patch
/
was i6fnitsIv more sraf 14 a. a @ al NJ tb I'm 1i1s
| he had rambling about his little house, pausing
! once IN while 70 wag his tail at the large and
You oughter see that lizard when we feed him.
] Ptesred one or the older bows You see him
him with hies he's tickled he turns green
| lady took him out this morning He was green
then. but in a few minutes he had turned brown
| WIN aIlHoyance. the room fell so cold 70 him. and
! hes stayed brown ever since except when he gets
! Miss Ellen J. Beiamy. head Or tho department,
/ Coiecfed al her fresh water aqUarta OuL or the
! rooms. and they formed very Interesting part or
/ Ile e&hiolt- Ar. Spencer dtted up a large salt
] water aquarium expressly fo- the school, with
! oysters clans, mussels stCkebacks and sea
! aneInones au living on a hoor Of clean pebbles IN
| waving Forest or sea lettuce.
! A number or the schools iu the district came 20
.lsil the sho" YESTERDAY with their teachers, but
ne 2as ms ms ot the pupils are no longer invited
! - round they destroyed a great deal said one
/ o. HoI the women IN charge. and as IN" educational
/ things for after IN the Classrooms These flow
classes dftei the sho" is over for nature work. and
The vegetables VIII be used the drawing classes
! intendent we owe th,. privilege or these exhhi-
tions," said Miss Beiamv ~Fie ls intensely inter-
/ ested n having the nature study real thing to
Joseph =: FTipp IS principal Of The sc4oo.
/ Among the donors Robert " de Forest. who
| sent collection OF prize winning cabhages beets
/ parsnips, heads Of celery and The like. Mrs. Z
i vile. n J.; Miss Emily I Long. Of the Normal
/ College Mrs J G Brown Mrs 7. a Morrison. OF
I D. Everitt MACY Mrs 9. F Dean. or Strawberry
! Hill stamford Conn Miss r. T. Foote, OF New
| Mrs. Northrop has had the assistance OF Mrs J.
| II Cohen. Miss Alice Isslacs Miss Estelle Isaacs
| Emily Long and Miss strasburger
public schools is the big box OF flowers which tha
| box whi"h arrived ve@terdav came with best
wishes from the first and second primary and the
sixth-year grammar rooms 'at the suggestion Of
Miss F. c. aungerford." according TO the accom-