Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-28
w ANT TO SEE MORE
PUPILS ANXIOUS TO VIEW ALL OF
STARS ART COLLECTIONS.

All the schools In the fifth division are
| on the alert the word has gone out that
the coupon lady" is going around with Mr.
| B. T. Janney, the supervising principal
| All the fourth division buildings have been
visited.
The teachers of the public schools of the
| District are delighted with the casts on
| exhibition at The Star office.
Have any more arrived" they ask,
| wherever the director. Miss Brinkhaus. APP
| pears. "At the recess periods they tell
| her, each day nothing is talked of in the
schools but the casts. Everywhere you
hear, oh, aren't they beautiful? / hope
the rest are coming soon Well, one thing,
Christmas will have another interest this
year. We will know just what buildings
are to have the collections. What a
Christmas gift that will be! "
Many of the teachers have been asking
about the Haus Gerber from which the
casts come.
''Of course, we can't all have collections.
and so many of the buildings have great
bare corridors, we must have something
In them. We will have TO get casts of this
quality in some other way If we don't sue
coed in getting a Star collection. one
thing The Star has certainly done. we
have been educated now beyond the posi-
bility of being satisfied with mediocre deco
ra tons And that kind OF education has
| been universal. There are fifteen collec-
| tons a large and generous gift, but every
teacher some fifteen hundred in a hun
| dred and fifty different buildings, has al
ready received what he never can lose,
| an idea of what is possible in matter MAX
| ing casts a standard of perfection and
| taste for the best.
Want Good Casts.
One teacher more enthus iastic and at
the same time practical asked, How can
we get these casts? or course We can
never be satisfied, we used 10 be, with
| the things that are hawked about the
streets. We rose from that to the better
made casts in the little Italian shops and
then became contented only with the Chi
cago New York and Boston casts, but
now The Star has shown us something so
much beyond anything We know that we
must have them. What Is their price how
| can we get them? | am sure the an
| fuence of The Stars competition is so great
| that the teachers who are not successful in
| getting collections for their buildings Will
want TO band together to obtain repToduc-
| lions of art subjects from some other
source. Perhaps the board of education
| would take charge of an order and secure
| the importation of appropriate casts for the
| unlucky buildings. We teachers would
| be thanked enough for opening 10 us the
| knowledge of these beautifully finished
works OF art.
| In the fourth division all is enthusiasm
| for the Smallwood School. This building
| is located on ! street between Sd and AZ
streets southwest. The principal Is Mr.. c.
A. Johnson. is an eight-room building
and at present leads in the competition in
| the third class. Close upon the Smallwood
| is the Hilton IN the third division in the
! charge of Miss ]. w. Rawlings. In the fifth
division the Jackson, under Miss +. l..
Cooley, is running close second. These three
buildings represent three sections, South
Washington, Capitol Hill and Georgetown,
but their position Is by no means assured
The Gage Wheatley, Buchanan lexington,
Petworth, Ross and Banneker have hosts of
loyal supporters, and when 1t is remembered
that the Ross is not yet opened 1t is possible
to judge the loyalty and enthusiasm for
decoration.
The Parthenon Frieze.
In the Sunday Star was an illustration
from the freze of the Parthenon which
has caused great interest among the pupils
who are said to begin to understand that
great art, even when mutilated, may have
beauty
The famous frieze encircled the Parthe-
non, at the top of the outer wall of the
CELIA ana at height of about thirty-nine
feet above the floor. The projecting roof
of the colonnade, supported by the great
Doric columns, threw the frieZe, to some
extent. into the shadow. This circumss ance,
and the narrowness of the eolonnade, rem
dered IL somewhat difficult to see the de-
tails of the frIeze from the floor with clear
ness. The subtlety of the artist to some
extent overcame this difficulty by making
the upper portion of the frieZe in slightly
higher relief than the lower.
The subject -streakd by the artist in the
frieze Is believed to be the Panathenaic fes-
tival, the chief festival of the Athenian peo-
pie, which was held once In four years, in
honor of Athena, the patron goddess of the
city The festival continued for five days
the fifth day being the elimination Of the
whole in procession, which passed through
the city and up to the summit of the Acrop-
oils, where a new and gorgeously en-
broidered robe. or peplos. was presented TO
the image Of the goddess which was en-
shrined in the Parthenon. 1t is this process
sion which is represented in this frieze- 1t
was composed Of the officials Ut the CITY,