The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1908-05-24

and the slippers squeaked and the
louder they squeaked the happier |
was because knew | was attracting
attent on and arous.ng enmity among
my friends who didn't have new slip
pers. Ny hair was curled-l remem-
Der that distinctly because II had
been rolled tight in curl papers and
pins for three days previous to the
occasion, a torture almost beyond en-
durance. but an ordeal | always had
to undergo when there was special
child show on. | didn't have one OF
those enormous pink bows-they were
not styl sh-but worse, roach comb
that served to keep the stray locks
out of my eyes. Well, We had les
sons. reading, spelling and adding the
tiplication tables of two and three.
| knew that If my teacher would go
straight down the line, could spell
a iittle-cat, rat and boy-and ere
long | learned to spell man and have
been accused of spelling it ever since.
had a speech in the afternoOn-and
by that time those slippers were
hurting dreadiully | couldn't stand
STILL My-all OF you have been there
If you will 'fess up. Twinkle, Twin
klc, Little star was what | said-and
10y the time 1t was finished | had
about chcwed off one of those arti-
cial Curls and twisted that mother
hubbard until you would have thought
II had been run through a clothes
wruger. oh, those days were dear
ones, but times have changed, and
the world is growing wiser, and the
wee tots in the primaries are writ
ing and putting on all kinds of dis
play work, illustrated stories, model
ing. weaving. cutting and drawing
did you ever see anything to equal
the work in the first grades in the
city schools? Miss Woods at the
Franklin school has a fine exhibit of
cutting and crayoning. Mrs. berk-
shire in the Third ward has the same
and quite a little geography lesson
II sand. Miss HildOu and Miss Bon
| Durant in the Fourth ward had dis
plays of clay modelling and weaving
| that quite took the eye of the visi-
tors. This is the only ward in which
| ,his is taught. The material used in
| the work Is furnished by the Moth
ers' club and which should be furnish
ed at each school by the school board.
| Why, these rooms were real toy shops
| in sense. There was doll furniture
cut from cardboard. woven hammocks.
| Navajo rugs designed IN various col
| ors, and whole dinner set modelled
in clay. The manual training brings
out many things the little brown
hands can do, save driving home the
COWS from the PASTURE and brings
out talents in the child we least eX-
! pect and when they are cultivated are
often its lifetime money-earner. The
Second ward had on drawings and
many stories. Miss Jones has charge
over there. Miss Stewart has been
quite sick and was not able to deco
rate her room as she mad Intended.
The fourth, fifth and sixth grades Of
all the schools had class recltations,
songs and quite showing of draw
ings in water colors and pen and ink
sketches. Miss T.. Jones had an inter
csting arithmetic class on and illus
trated story books on the walls in her
room are indeed wonderful. Mss Gait
had her room in its class colors,
orange and black, and a big bunch OF
yellow lilies orndmented the table.
In here were number of maps and
memory stories. Mis-. BasWcli'E rJom
was in the midst oi a geOS"Li,hy les
son and questions askcl and an
swered were put uulluiy aud Chcre
were many auu=lnS NrIS. Miss
Davis had some beautiful DRAWINGS in
water colors and there TaS some
splendid cartooning and iettering-d
hidden talent which would have per-
haps never been brought to light Id |
not the art study been introduced III
to the schools, Every school had Oh
this work aud these displays and
none better than the other We tired
to visit them all and did, and only re-
gret that the visiting days were not
six instead Of two and then We would
have had a better opportunity OF see
ing and hearing more. There rs 10
town in the new state that can JasI
OF better schools The last week ut
the grammar schools has been az in
spiration TO teacher, pupil and parent,
ana when exchanging thanks o. the
cooperation between each other, do
not forget that a vast bit is due the
earnest and untiring work of the
Mothers clubs. There has nevet
been an organization in city that
has done more toward the upbu'ldin )
of public schools and school work
than these clubs The first was o..
ganized at the jefferson school in
the Fourth ward. Next the citizens
IN the Second ward organized a Give
league and Mothers club. Third, the
First ward organized a Franklin Moth
; ers' club at that school and the same
week the High School auxiliary and
Mothers CLUB was organized in the
Third ward All with a small mem
bership in the beginning, but now
numbering some three hundred
mothers, teachers and pupils. Three
rousing cheers to the Ardmore Moth
ers' clubs.
With a senior Class numbering eigh
teen and grammar school class mum
bering thirty-siX, school commence
ment events scheduled for the week
will begin today with the baccalau
reate sermon at the Robson opera
house by the Rev. Il. n. Fairchlds o