Wood County reporter. [volume] (Grand Rapids [i.e. Wisconsin Rapids], Wis.) 1857-1923, 1905-05-23
REMARKABLE MANUAL
TRAINING EXHIBIT
Students Work at Howe Building
This Week.


All during the week the work of the
students in the city schools will be on
exhibition at the Howe Building,
afternoons, and Saturday forenoon.
The articles on exhibition are all
examples of the work done in the
manual training department of the
city schools, and it is worth ones
time to call at the school, and survey
the work that has been done during
the year. From the kindergarten
tots to the young men and women in
the high school, all have contributed
toward the beautiful array of drawing,
sewing, whiting, amateur carpenter
ing, basket iweaving, and iron work
that is shown the visitor to the Howe
building this week.
In looking over the exhibit, one can
find some examples Of drawing from
nature, of animate and inanimate
objects; he can find some examples
Of what is really fine sewing, such as
various articles of clothing and patch
work and darning, like that their
mother makes" one can see simple
articles which are ornamental and
useful about the house, made by all
ages of students: and further in this
line are shown tables. kitchen cabinets.
and numerous other articles which do
credit to the weilderS of the saw and
hammer. The products of the iron
workers and the basket weaverS are of
variety combining the ornamental
and useful, Such as work baskets, card
trays, letter and book holders,
candelabra, and similar articles. A
number Of doll houses, being part
OF the work done by the first three
grades Of pupils, are arranged to
represent actual residences, fitted out
with furniture, rugs, the walls are
papered. and the exhibit has a number
Of very nice pieces of work.
The drawing is divided into three
classes. that OF representation, illustra-
work is the drawing of nature subjects,
objects without life, and landscapes;
the second class is the illustration of
reading lessons, and word studies, all
done from memory; the design work is
that part of the whole drawing exhibit
which will, probably, appeal most
LOT rn rl n a xuE viz
the exhibit. This work runs through
all the grades, from the kindergarten
to the high school, and is very
suggestive.
In the first grades, the design work
is made up OF patterns for simple
| house furnishings, such as carpets,
wall paper, rugs, ETC.; in the next
three grades this work includes cloth
patterns, book covers, little holiday
gifts, etc; in the upper grades and
| high school, there is added to this,
house plans, practical work with
carpenter tools, and those of the iron
| worker, and the utensils of the
houSekeeper. The course includes
actual designing and planning a house,
complete throughout, and the ar
chitectural drawing and designing
| work is also included.
Throughout the whole course of man
! ual training, the ideas of ornamental
and practical usefulness are uppermost
| in the designing of the work for the
students, To inculcate in the minds
Of each student, love for, and an
appreciation of art in all it's forms,
and a ready dlScernment of the
| beautiful and useful in life, and
| thereby infuSe into the makeup of
the students spirit of good will, and
happiness, is the whole object in view
In requiring this manual training of
| the public school students. And no
one who goes to the Howe building
| and views the results of the years.;
work along these lines, and with these
| objects in view, can but join in the
opinion that the work will have a
successful end.
Parents who have in mind the we'll
being of their children who are pupils
in the schools Of the city, and who
would like to see more of the practical
as well as the theoretical enter into
their children's education, should go
to the Howe building and see this
exhibit. It has become an established
fact that something further than the
three RS" is necessary for the
making OF the best quality of citizens
from public school pupils, and that
want is excellantly filled by what may
be termed the three "H's,"-the
training in unison of the head, hand
and heart. On some afternoon of this
week, or Saturday morning, then, go
to the Howe building, and see the
| remarkable array of excellent work,
| the results of the training in unison
Of the head, the hand and the heart.