Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1905-11-01

The time for the closing of the contest
has been determined, but is not announced
as yet. There is ample time for all. 1t is
thought to be very unwise to withhold
votes, and q plan is being devised to Sc
cure immediate returns.
The pupils are thoroughly alive to the
movement and its meaning
Speaking of room 100, Star building, a
pupil who had made an afternoon visit to
carry the votes for his building, saw a
box full of votes for rival school.
why" he said that school has a whole
shoe box full, but then we have a chance;
It was only a lady's shoe box
Interest in the Statues.
That the children are not thinking of
votes merely but of the casts themselves
is shown by the interest of boy who
brought the illustration of the Homer pub
lished in The Star Of Monday to school
Tuesday morning in order to compare it
with small bust of the poet which stands
on corner bracket in his school room. He
was interested in the resemblance and in
the differences and began to take note of
the other objects in the room which had
grown old 10 him.
THE great delight In these casts to my
mind" said one eighth grade teacher, lis
that they will be purely decorative. hope
the teachers will not make them basis for
teaching. Some things are useful In their
beauty, and children lose affection some
times for the very best, if they think it is
connected with study. We can guide their
appreciation, or we can merely let them see
our own Joy in the beautiful and let 1t be-
come infectious without drilling 1t into the
pupils. The Stars casts are so well select
ed and of such quality I think we can
let them exert their own influence. 1t must
be good
The director will meet the teachers Of the
twelfth division at $50 o'clock today at the
Garnet building.
Of Ovid's Metamorphoses.
Clytie is one of the personages of Ovids
Metamorphoses. She water nymph.
according to the Greek legend, in love with
Phoebus Apollo, who had not the affection
for her which made him pursue Daphne.
All day long she sat upon the cold ground.
with unbounded tresses streaming over her
shoulders. For nine days she watched the
daily course of the sun from his rising in
the east to his western setting. So con-
slant was her gaze that at last her limbs
rooted in the ground. and her face became
sunfiower-in Greek and Latin, the hell
anthus. from helios, the sun. and anthos, a
flower. Sometimes the sunfiower has been
confused with the heliotrope, also a sun
loving flower, the name taken from helios
the sun. and trope. to turn. The common
which makes the sunflower the symbol of
constancy.
The most celebrated bust, the Clytie or
the British Museum, is original Roman
marble, in all probability portrait OF
some Roman lady. The name is arbi
trarily given to 1t because 1t rises from
the leaves of a suntiower The great Ia
dies of Rome, deservedly celebrated for
their beauty or their position, were fire.
quently invested with the various forms
and attributes of divinity or the heroincs
of legend The petals of the flower in this
bust purely decorative, as the charm
ing head itself Is purely Roman. 1t WAS
bought in Naples in 1772.
Four new buildings entered the race 70
6ay-Randall, Birney, Lenox and Chevy
Chase.