Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1910-10-24
WORK OF CHILDREN
Furniture Made of Paper, Pen
and Ink Pictures.
EXHIBIT HALL PROVIDED
Basement Of the Thompson School
Building Selected.
TRANSFER FROM FRANKLIN
Visitors Given Opportunity to View
Handiwork Of Washington
Boys and Girls.
TRANSFER FROM FRANKLIN

Visitors to this city who wish to see how
and what the boys and girls of Washing
ton are learning will in the future have
better opportunity than is given now
According to an announcement made to-
day by A. T. Stuart, superintendent OF
public schools in the District the new
Thompson School at 18th and l. streets
northwest, which Is one of the most
modern school building in the city, will
be employed as an exhibition school. The
Franklin has hitherto been visited by out
side pedagogues in quest Of ideas from
the local schools.
The reason given by Mr.. Stuart for this
change is that the Thomp son. besides be-
ing a modern building, contains all
grades. from the kindergarten to the
lower grades. School officials do not in
tend to make TINS puiiuing any better
than other buildings, but merely repre-
sentative Of the schools of this city.
New Exhibit Hall.
The assembly hall in the basement of
the building will be used as a permanent
exhibition hall where the work of the
children may be seen at any hour of the
day. Although the exhibit will be perma-
nent, there will be changes made in it
continually so that it will not become
stale.
The model kindergarten of the District
will be located in the building, and the
normal school girls will go there to
study kindergarten work instead Of study
ing 1t in the Franklin building, as they
have been doing This will be no hard
ship. it is contended, as the two schools
are but two squares apart.
Upon the wal s of the assembly hall of
the new building will be spread the speci-
mems of the handiwork of the pupils and
there will also be samples of all the In
dustrial work done in the graded schools.
Most Of the pieces of work on exhibit
ton at the Franklin at present will be
taken there. and these articles alone, it is
claimed, comprise an exhibition we'll
worth seeing. There are clay busts OF
men famous in history. such as Washing
ton, Grant, Capt. John Smith and Mckin-
ley. and though done by children in the
lower grades the likenesses can readily
be recognized. There are also clay APP
pies and clay boats and a varied assert
ment of similar sample work.
Works of Amateur Art.
There are pictures in pen and water
colors depicting life in this country at all
stages of it's development and life in
foreign countries as it is conceived by
the children after a study of geography
lessons @Pasteboard articles of furniture,
pictures of birds, animals and people cut
from pasteboard and countless other OBJ
jects prove the skill of the children as
far as the manipulation of the shears and
paste is concerned. There are also paste
board models of ships of all descriptions
from the kind used by the vikings to
the dreadnoughts of today. Wooden boats
whitfield by small hands are among the
EXHIBITS Most of the whiting work is
done in making miniature furniture, how
ever, and there are among these settees
that a liliputian might use advanta-
geously. as well as little desfs. which
open and shut. These are, however, but a
few of the many articles which have been
made by the children, and many more
products of childish hands will be placed
In the Thompson School before the exhi-
bition is formally opened to the public