Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1904-06-07


and Greece have stamped the impress
of their law and civilization upon the
whole world. With them, in their in
parable literature, oratory and the
drama originated and reached their
climax. By studying the Grecian and
Roman mythology, illusions 10 their
deities and heroes are better understood
in modern literature. History, too,
becomes more interesting with the
study of the classics. A knowledge of
the personal home life of the Greeks
and Romans, creates a personal inter-
est in the lives of men who gave their
influence to our present civilization.
There is hardly an element in our
present age which does not in some way
owe its origin to the Greeks and
Romans. Our own language, archi-
lecture and art, are all based upon that
of these ancient people Even the
American dollar, that symbol OF Ameri-
can materialism bears on its face, the
Latin motto &c Pluribus Unum.'
Besides broader culture, and
heightened interest in their wonderful
period of history, the classics impart to
| us mental discipline. By committing
the declensions and conjugations, by
working out the difficult constructions,
our mental ability is greatly developed
and strengthened
Knowing that in the classics we gain
| a knowledge of the law, literature, his
| tory, and art CT the Grecians and Ro-
mans; a better grasp of our own lam
guage and tue development of our
mental ability, let us unite in standing
by the Greek aud The Latin, and dc
mand that our education consist of a
broad basis of knowledge, together
with a complete mastery of our mental
| powers.
The department of domestic science
has now been running year in our
high school and it was a fitting part of
the graduating exercises that few of
the senior girls, who had taken domes-
tic science, should present its advan-
tages to the public. Instead of doing
this in dry way by giving acur essays
on the subject, Misses Jessie Kollock
Bel Murray, Emma Stewart and Lillian
Young wrote play entitled "a Domes-
tic Science Lunch" in which they not
only explained the good of domestic
sUience conrse, but also demonstrated
how salad and coffee are made, how
meat is garnished and served and how
cream potatoes are cooked
To make this all the more interesting
the stage was fixed up to represent a
modern kitchen. There was the gas
stove, the tiled refrigerator, the mod
ern kitchen table and various utensils.
During the dialog that was carried on,
while the various articles of food men,
toned above were being prepared, it
was shown in the most unexpected and
unassuming ways what the course in
domestic science in our high school now
Includes; something about what is in
the equipment; the educational value,
as we'll as the more obvious practical
value, was explained; and the social
and moral effects of good cooking a mi
good housekeeping, made clear.
This play was rendered all the more
effective and pleasing by the costumes
and by the good acting of the girls who
took part. Each one carried out her
part splendidly and it was hard to
realize that it was not real kitchen in
a real high school girls home, with a
bevy of girls having good time putting
into use what they had learned.
The first evenings exercises were
closed with rousing presentation of
one of Howell's farces, "The Elevator ,
The cast of characters was as follows: