The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1909-03-18
WALTERSVILLE
 PUPILS REPLY
 OLEEDS SCHOOL
Answers to Series of Letters Which Were Published in Farmer Some Weeks Ago. A Continuation of Practical Work in School Compost tion-Writers g Describe Their School Work.

A few weeks ago the Farmer pulp lished a series of letters received by the pupils of Miss Moynihan's room of the Waltersville school in reply to let ters written by them to pupils of the Cockburn High school of Leeds, Eng land, in an international composition i exercise, and now the Farmer is priv ileged to give the replies of num- Der of the Bridgeport pupils to the letters received. Three have been se- lected as representative of the whole and will undoubtedly be read with in | terest by those who followed the first series.
 Letters were also written by Miss Moynihan's pupils to school in De- troit and also series to school in Pittsburg in which the writers de- scribe the local telephone exchange which they were allowed to visit through the courtesy of MT. Betts, the local manager. The pupils of the school would be glad to visit other industries in this city for the purpose Nof gathering information to be used in future compositions which will be sent to other schools in this country. The exercise is a valuable one for the pupils and gives better working knowledge of writing and the English language than mere composition writ ing upon abstract subjects, and the real replies they receive stimulate
 
 The writers tell much of their school work and the subjects which interest tffem most. The letters fol- low:
 TO DAISY JONES
 Bridgeport, Conn.,,
 Feb. 26, 1909. Dear Daisy:
 We were very glad to receive your letters and we think that they were the best that we ever received from any other school of the world. Now we will answer your letters. and see if we can make them as good as yours were. |
 I think that I will tell you some thing about our school work. We have physical exercises every after noon, except Thursday. We have them for fifteen minutes and we are trying to stand like soldiers for we are having an exhibition of physical exercises in Bridgeport this year. Our pupils are not giving it for the schools that have the game called basketball are. doing it this time. Our super visor, MT. Went, was going to let us be in it but there were too many children. so he could not let any more take part.
 We also have drawing which we like very much. We have it on Thursday. In the summer time we have drawing work from nature, but in the winter we cannot do that any more for it is too cold to get any more flowers and we have what we call pose drawing and we have a little girl or boy come up from down stairs and we draw him. Our drawing teacher. whose name was Miss Hallock. went to California. but we are going to have another super visor soon.
 We have a book case in our room which was bought by last years class. It stands in the right hand corner of the room and I am very near it for sit in the first row in the fifth seat. We now use 1t for 1ibrar, books of which there are thirty-three and only thirty pupils. We keep them about two months and then the teach l CT, whose name is Miss Moynihan. sends them back to the library and we get another set of books
 There is just one more thing of l which I would like to tell you and that is about our proverbs, which we are very fond of. Every Monday | morning when we come into our room | we see a proverb on the blackboard, | which is on the side of the room and the girl or boy who handed it to the teacher must recite on it the next week.
 I have already told you about the library books which we get and that is where we get those proverbs II will name the one that is on the board now: "He is a hero who always does right"
 There are many more which we have had, but I cannot name them in this letter for my time is soon up.
 Some of the children of our room have received two letters and I will tell you that I did, but the teacher said that we should only have time to write to one of the scholars and we could choose the one we wanted
 My teacher also said that the one we did not write to we should send a postal to.
 Your Friend.
 PAULINE wEIHING.