Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-05-27

rector of sewing; Mr.. ]. F. N. Wilkerson.
director of carpentry; Mrs. Jane Cart
wright, director of laundry; Miss Margaret
Pritchett. director of cooking; Mrs. Bessie
Butler, matron and teacher in English; Mr..
w. W. Jackson. director of music; Miss
Mayme M. Jones, millinery teacher.
The executive committee consists of DR..
w. B. Evans, Rev w. ]. Howard, D. D.,
Rev. NJ. D. \, illiams, d. D.
Commencement week at the Bristol
School begins today with the baccalaureate
sermon by Rev Herbert Scott Smith, D. D.,
at ST. Margaret's Church, at the evening
service. Class day exercises. including the
Usual history prophecy and so on by Misses
Dorothy Millen. Marie Riles. Alice Johnson,
Dorothea Knox. Marion Martin and Amy
Morton, will be held May 80. Tuesday will
be observed as prize day, Thursday
French play will be given and Friday the
exercises proper. English diplomas will be
conferred on Alice Gertrude Johnson MIchi-
gan: Dorothea Heness Kn.ox, Maryland;
Marion Stuart Martin, Tennessee; Dorothy
Mtlien. Staten Island. n. Y: Amy Ran
dolph Morton, Tennessee; Marie Elise Riies.
Florida and O French diploma on Miss
Alice Johnson and Miss Dorothy Millen.
The program includes an address by the
bishop Of Delaware. the Right Rev. Leigh
ton Coleman; the presentation of diplomas
by NJ Henri des Parties de la Fosse
conseileur de Pambassade de France, ana
music by the students and by Messrs 3.
Frederick Smith, ]. w. White and Samuel
NJ. faDfan.
At the Western High School an excep-
tiobally interesting fete will be celebra ted
on the evening of Friday June 1. from :sy
te 10 pm, in behalf Of the public play
grounds. The grounds of the Western are
especially adapted for lawn fete anf II
Is purposed to make them brilliant with
street-car headlights and gay with Jana
hese lanterns. Ice cream, cakes candies
and whatever else Is OF a cooling, innocuous
nature Will be served. and various kinds of
favors and souvenirs will be offered by
members of the different classes
Speciai interest centers in the program
OF quaint dances and artistic athletic drills
10 be performed by the girls of the Western
and Central schools There will be floral
march by 200 pretty maidens. an Indian
drill. minuet will probably be danced
and the first public exhibition be given OF
Mrs. Walton's new game. follow ball"
The match will be played between Central
essary for the game by red and blue caps.
The event is looked forward to by the en-
tire school world as novel and excep-
tionally interesting departure.
The American Library Association will
meet for the twenty eighth annual meeting
of the national organization at Narragan-
sett Pier June 20 to July 6. The advance
manuscript program shows a wide range
of topics to be discussed. Among them are
the following:
Complaint is sometimes made that public
libraries do little more than supply picture
books for children. novels for novel-readfng
women and few books In belles-lettres for
the dilettante. AS matter of fact. one Of
the questions most seriously discussed by
librarians for many years is, How can
business men. mechanics and artisans be
induced to make use of the many books
we have on our shelves? One aspect of
this question will be discussed by the spe-
cialist In technical books from the Pitts
burg Library.
I'm many of the Industrial cities the adult
foreigners call on the library for books In
their own languages. The children of these
immigrants do not ask for books in other
languages than English. They wish books
In the tongue of their new country, and the
best ones at that. The adults demand for
foreign books 1t sometimes seems wise to
supply. Through books in Polish, Rouma-
MAN, italian and other languages 1t has
often been possible for libraries to enable
newly arrived immigrants. too old to learn
English, to acauaint themselves with Amer
lean history and American institutions This
subject Is to be discussed by the librarian
of Columbia University.
The free public library has by no means
crowded the proprietary or subscription
libraries out of existence. 1t Is quite pos
stbIe that there will be q revival of inter-
est In many cities In libritry supported by
q comparatively few people for their own
special needs. The subject OF the propri-
stary library will be discussed by the libra
rian OF the Boston Athenaeunl. perhaps the