Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1910-12-23
NATIVITY PORTRAYED
Biblical Characters in Sand Form.
ed in Public Schools
over 400 Pupils Attended Christmas
Exercises in High School Room We'd
nesdaN-Gifts Made by Children.

over 400 Pupils Attended Christmas
Exercises in High School Room We'd
nesday-Gifts Made by Children.
The pupils of the public schools rejoice |
when Christmas week arrives Not only |
does 1t mark the beginning Of a vacation, |
but in school Itself the usual discipline Is |
relaxed and brains that for weeks since |
school began have been computing labor
iously the answers to intricate problems |
are allowed to follow another course of
thought, which to many appeals with
greater force The grades from the first
through the ninth have celebrated the |
week of weeks this year and every pupil
has done something that will make the
holiday season lnger long in his mind.
The first and second grade children OF
each of the five primary schools enjoyed
Christmas trees. In the High street
school the pupils Of the second grade OF
the Esteyville school were entertained
Tuesday morning and the children Of
these two widely separated schools had
an opportunity to become acquainted
Miss Mary Croker guided her young
| charges from Esteyvile to High street
and when they had been assigned seats
! they and the pupils OF Miss Esther l..
| Crowell enjoyed several songs, and while
! the singing was In progress the pupils
| surveyed each other and in the peculiar
| ways of childhood began to know each
! other.
! The boards In Miss Crowell's room had
! been decorated with drawings made with
| colored chalk, the work OF Mrs. G. b.
! Crowell, portraying the three wise men,
! Mary with the Infant Jesus In her arms
| and the shepherds Around the boards
| tiles drawn in colored chalk bv the chill
| dren had heer hung hut the niece de
resistance stood in one corner of the
room One little boy was delegated by
| the teacher to describe IL to the visitors.
Tho sand tray had been tr,nsforued into
a miniature representat ton Of the Natiy-
TIN a rn,nper rpada ~ fir bo,ys living
80. irr,rt Tesus a., nj. .radlc N,ry
| sitting close h.-ida and Ios4rb st,ndin,
aarb,. Ie,nin, against , donkey In front
! ~ mo r,v.-Is,rr L,he ,yers s.,or-l ,,n,
INNS IA re,rasapt tba r-iets and near
tb.m v.re Tho tbroa WIS., men st,ndinp
| in silent ,dn,-,ti,p outside tho ,,.nooT
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7 II, mo h,.lgrn,,,d a Irr5 NJ mr.. sb,e,,
,yar. ,,r,2irqr m. YORK an his rarr..
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! voynd H., tho minds ~ nv. ,tildr,, a.,
i5e, h,tt.r MAJ, 81 ,i.,'rro .,,,ll t,y.
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nIeted in number tbis yonL hoco,,so
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the prosnect huI district ,ban IN onv
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who ,rere IN attondanco oi,t -, ,n,ai
~ ~ In tho tv,, cl,sses diJ no, ,,sa ~
sand trav but ,ir,,,ros ~, sat-, Cia"s
in colored cbaIk ana tho thre. v,ise
men In ubite craiL ador,.d 10 hoara
The children had n tree ana learned
| nau C,bris,r,as snpes a,d ,,,.,,s 90 did
mo rest Of tba scbools ana en{nysd tho
last three DAYS OF school
w. ,,,r.,,,s - an ~. ,,,,ilr,, ,. O.,
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noon and many, availed thernselves ~ m.
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school roorns thor stoo1 q 49, C,hrtst
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thn chirdri, y,oro ,l.aso5 80 CO., .i,,
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wondrous trees rbo ibilirsn o.Sas, ~
er,s ala NOT Vii, scbanI ,,rrta5 ~.
their rIfts
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tr..os and ,1aeorations Voc ,,.,irth ~
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the bipb school nan yyoI,'s,,,,. 49,
moan and bsId Cl,rtst,,,'s ..' W.
More than 40 n,rapts and cri.r,ls' ia
cd ana wers bir,ii,. ,,le,saI Mn
gram A. moon tbn Io,.s - ~ w.. .,
grades took home as ,tfts - ,bci. 80,