Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-02-15
Exhibit by the Public
Schools.
Specimens of Work in the Various
Grades, and Specimens of Manual
Training and Sewing Work Shown


O'Clock until and again from to s
in the evening. the occasion being an
exhibit of the work done by the pupils
of the school.
On the first floor in the chemistry
room was the exhibit from the sewing
department and the manual training
department and very interesting ex-
hibit it was too.
The needle work done by the girls
under the instruction of Miss Spring
was certainly very cerditable. 1t con-
sisted of garments of all kinds, from
dress for a full grown woman to a
hood for a doll. While instruction
has been given in practical sewing
fancy stitches are also in evidence
and the work was a demonstration
that the girls are being taught some
thing practical that they can put in
use in after life no matter what their
sphere in life may be or what their
vocation.
The handiwork of the boys was also
an interesting subject for study, and
gave evidence of faithful and efficient
work by Mr.. Clark, who is in charge
of the manual training department.
To enumeIate the different articles
would require a large amount of
space, as they consisted of almost
every conceivable article which can be
made from wood, from large book
case to a tiny pencil sharpener, con-
sistlng of a small smoothly planed
piece of wood with piece of sand pa
per tackled on one end of it.
There we're stools, book racks, a
sled, tables, chairs, taborets, stands,
blotting pads, in fact whole room
filed so full of them that there was
just barely room for the visitors to
circulate and move about them to ex-
anime them.
These articles do not represent just
so much carpenter work. done by
the boys, which of itself is a valuable
and useful knowledge for them to OBJ
tain, but the neatly fitted joints, the
carefully mortified holes, the smooth
~, evenly planed surfaces, and the
correct angles at which the varions
pieces are joined, to make finished
article, each and all convey a lesson
of care and accuracy which is required
to make it perfect.
This is a lesson too, which applies
not only to the manufacture of arti-
cles from wood, but which is applica-
BILE to everything pertaining to the
human welfare.
a grand lesson can be taught IN the
carpenter shop" of the public
schools, with the plane, the plummet.
the square and compass, saw and ham.
mer, as we'll as the practical useful
lesson of learning how to do things il
material way.
In the auditorium of the high school
we're samples of work of all kinds
from the kin iergarten to the twelfth
grade of the high school. To attempt
to describe this would be like attempt
ing to count the stars.
Each grade occupied a niche in the
room by itself. There we're essays,
examination papers, recitation papers,
samples of writing and composition
drawing, painting and coloring, MAP
drawing and in the kindergarten and
primary departments there were all
kinds of cute little things made of pa
per and other material, among tine lat
ter being little baskets made of &
species of grass grown on the other
side of the world somewhere.
One could not but take natural
pride in looking at these things, re-
presenting as they do tine genius, and
skill, which is being developed in the
men and women of the future Then
we older ones-that is those of us, who
like the writer, have passed the hall
century mark could take a special
pride in looking at them, and con-
trasting the school work of the pre-
sent day with that of the time when
we we're boys and girls. Not only con-
trast the work, but what a pleasing
contrast also, the workers of today,
bright, smiling, cultured young lad
les, are with the stern 'schoolamster'
of that day.
| The teachers were present to answer
any questions or 20 Impart infoIma-
tion concerning the work of'their pu-
pills, while Prof. B. D. Billinghurst,
principal of the school was here, there
and everywhere with kindly greeting
for all.
The idea of this exhibit at the close
of the first semester of the school year
was certainly very happy one, and il