The San Francisco call., 1906-05-23
school,. HOURS
FULL Of JOY
Pupils Watch Outdoor
Scenes and Listen
to Stories.

If in your yout'l you went to school
IN odious brick builiings. ike grea :
prisons bordering streets lroar with
traffic and breathed damn air from
light wells. ust take a stroll out 10
Golden Gate Park and envy the san
Francisco children Of the earthquake
era
They are going 70 school in tents.
Under their feet j. the green swasd;
through, the open flaps the good mi
crobe killing sun pours; the balny
spring air noats IN lazily, la,lcn With
the perfume of azalea anil honey
suckla; above. tie trees rustic their
branches on the canvai in a care :.
through the leaves the Sky can be
seen gazing like biue-e.-ed lass. and
the whole world fs a-tTitter with the
birds.
And they don't have to dig their lit
tie noses into books, nor bow over
screcching states. There are no books,
no states, no pens, no pencils, no
paper. They're all burned I'D. All
there remains now are pretty Gall
pretty sunny smiling school teachers,
who stand there and tell YOU stories.
Its mighty fine. Earthquakes should
come often.
And then there's a grisly old ser
geant loaned b. Major Mclver. who
gives setting UP exercises, one-two.
breath but feeling fine. And you
don't get called to school by an old
bell, no sir. Little Emil Kerlein calls
you to school. lie comes around on
horseback, a-straddle in front of
Principal Albert Armstrong. lie gets
off and stands in front OF the tents,
no bigger than a boot puts bugle
to his lips--and ..len you should hear
it. Better than any old grand opera
to hear. Emil toot the assembly on
his bugle.
And in about another week. every
one will be going swimming. Princi-
pal Arm strong IS making the arrange
ments with the men who have charge
OF the park. Hes going to make a
There are lot of good ladies making
suits now. There'll be a mighty
splash when the $50 boys hit that
lake. And there'll be funny lot Of
gur3ling and screaming when a Jay
later the $50 little girls sit on the
bank and poke tiniid toes in the cold
water. But they'll all have to go
right on, just like the boys. Princi-
pal Armstrong says so.
Principal Armstrong has daush-
ter named Isabelle. AS the different
schools are far from each other, she
rides around on horse to give her
fathers orders. Her horse is a big
bay. Sac has golden hair. and when
the horse goes fast. the golden hair
flies behind her. She looks like little
Eva in Uncle Toms Cabin, but no old
bloodhound could ever catch her on
that horse of hers. She just goes like
the wind.
There are already 500 children at
tending the tent school, but there will
be double that number before the
week is over Today the teachers of
cooking began to teach. All the
boys and girls will be given lessons
in cooking, and they and their fami-
lies will eat what they cook There S
where good children viii count and
bad ones will be found out. Just
imagine having to eat the cooking OF
bad boy who won't obey his teach
er, who put in twice as much salt in
the soup as she says, and puts sua lr
on the corned beef
Here is the list of the teachers of
the camp school: Miss Emma Madden.
MISS Alice Derrick, Miss Marie Dona-
hue, Miss Georgia Hawkins, Miss Rae
alexander. Miss Rose Boukofsky, Mrs.
r.. Scott Mrs NJ. Stuart, John Irwin,
Miss N. A. Noon. Miss Emma Noonan.
MISS Helen Grace, Miss A. Silverberg.
Miss Irene Carroll, Mrs. J. Pearl Has
| lafn, MISS Adeline EOhrairn.