Herald and news. [volume] (West Randolph, Vt.) 1878-1943, 1909-08-12
NormaI School AZ.

Normal School Art
The recently issued tripIe-headed and
triple bodied catalogue of the State Nor
NAL schools contains q number OF illustra-
tions of more than passing consequence. I
Some of these Illustrations are reproduce
tions from still life drawings, presumably
made by studsnt-teachers. In these
drawings the same loving cup appears
four times, Dutch gin bottle is pictured
twice, and a whisky and beer bottle
each make one appearance. The same
class Of illustrations also shows = lion
practising the prison lockstep and csc
tus plant growing out OF g sugar-bowL
The drawings, probably, are fairly
good, although Just how much was done
by the student and how much by the in
structor cannot be determined That is
not the main point, however, Pretty pic
lures are all good in their way, and il We
we're to choose teacher to board at our
house, we should choose eone who could
draw and paint, other things being equal.
/ While she is drawing or painting lions,
cscti, gin, whisky and beer bottles, sugar
bowls and loving cups, she would not be
trying to turn our old pillow horse into a
cross country foxchaser nor would she be
washing out her handkeFchiefs, collars
and ribbons at the kitchen sink at the
same time the men folks come in to din
ner. On the whole, let her paint and
draw, by all means, II she must board at
our house.
We have long desired to have a ram
pant lion Dust a lion with no Roosevelt
attachment) painted on the middle panel
Of our front door. Our family coat OF
arms got lost in one of the storms en-
- II
painted by a normal school graduate
would help as out In this particular. II
the girl has enough Imagination, we viii
allow her to add 3 lamb to the picture.
Regarding the lamb, we shall only be
fussy in one or two respects. The lamb
must be risky thing, like the one that
followed Mary to school, and on no &C
count must the lion and the lamb be ly-
ing down together on constitutional
grounds. Otherwise, barring Roosevelt,
! the girl will be given carte blanche as fai
, as she can go without her instructor.
Again, we need loving cups painted in
at least four places about the house
There must be one directly over the wood
, box behind the kitchen stove. This one
I would be purely ornamental when tbs
box is filed, and useful, possibly, wber
/ the box is empty. For the same reasoni
there should be one loving cup over thu
-four barrel and another over the Goa
bin. The fourth loving cup must b
painted in neutral tints in the deepest re
cess of the darkest closet in the house.
As to placing the graphic representa-
. tions OF the gin bottle, the whisky botti'
: ana the beer bottle. we would have then
!, arranged in repetition as e dado arounS
the dining room. In the heat OF summe
d a A~kkH -
!, we drink something thinner than beer
I in the depth Of winter we would rivet on
: eyes upon the whisky bottles; and at tn
period of spring medicine-the season o
sarsapariIla, burdock root, dandelion
!, and house cleaning-we would contem
: plate the squat Dutch containers OF tn
!, juice that put Rip Van Wrinkle to sleep.
. In teaching young teachers how to d.
I these things the state is doing 9 great ant
noble work. Years ago, when the teach
er boarded at our house, she simply So
around out of school hours and eithe
4 crocheted unmeasured lengths OF lingeri
frescoes or ogled the hired man. Nov
: she is qualified to change the house into
gallery of art. More than this, too
!. Another picture in the Normal schoo
catalogue shows nine student-teachers q
will be noted that the number is precisel
!, the same as that Of the muses. in Gree
= literature) under the title, "Removin
Pottery from the Kiln" A rather goo
4, looking lot the nine are, assemble
4 around some kind OF q camp oven out q
" doors. They are actors in the importan
ceremonial of removing pottery froE
the kiln'-possibIy bean pots, althouR
7, some of the pots have handles like th
= loving cups. Let us hope the pots Al
:. bean pots full Of beans done to turn, fc
thereby shall we know that another art
being fostered by the state in the Norm'
=, schools.
If it may be assumed that the teachc
who may come to our house to board ca
prepare beans for the oven as we'll as tax
the bean pots out Of the oven, then is Oh
!. doubly welcome; indeed, we opine thu
- she will be in danger of unfulhlling h'
~ obligation to the state to teach two year
for there is always q lively demand Il
~ young women who can manipulate pala
~ ~ able beans into and out of the bsan pc
= What has all this to do with teacbin
:. the average Vermont boy or girl in Il
- public schools the essentials OF the EnI
10 lish language, the business essentials
~ arithmetic, the information essentials
Y history, geography and hygiene, and Il
- citizenship essentials of government
~ For the life of rs we do not know
:. There Is nothing about the subject tn
- leads rs to consider qUesticns so con
y monplace. That the state is fitting Il
=" teacher to be q more welcome boarder
our house than she used to be, compris
- the entire burden Of these remarks.-E
- sex Record.
nd 7ood tine 10 ranav-uow.