The Nashville globe. [volume] (Nashville, Tenn.) 1906-193?, 1910-06-03

During the past week practically
every city school has had on exbibi.
IIon The work of the children for tho
past year in manual training and do
mestic science. Hundreds of visitors
ana thousands of parents have haen
uellghted with the excellent SHOWING
made by the children in the various
grades. There was on exhibition the
work OF the child from the first sim
PIE sCltch up to the most complete gar.
ment. The children were seen active
l. at work in the culinary art. Manv
ol uhem explained the art of coolying
from the boiling of water to the malf'
ing of the best bread. At one school
Meigs in East Nashville, dressmaking
lowered over all other branches. The
glrls OF that school had dressed and
put on exhibition more than twenty
Negro dolls. The dolls made very
attractive exhibit. They are almost
llte-llke in their appearance, being So
well dressed, with their hair fixad IN
the various prevailing styles.
AT Pearl High School a collection
OF samples from the various schools
throughout the city presented a very
interesting exhibit Baskets, rugs
wood work and paper-cutting consti..
Iuleu the range of the work. One
girl from Knowles School had on ex-
hlDltlon a complete water set made of
rama, 1t has every appearance of
water set made of china or stone ware
except that one knows that it will not
mold water The baskets are woven
as closely as if they had been made
on machines and show rare skill and
artistic taste.
The boys in the advanced classes
nave done some very creditable wood
work. Special mention is deserved to
be made of Dutch stools made by
Meredith Ferguson and Albert Can
non. These are handsomely carved,
burned and vanished in colors The
work of the nine classes is systemati-
cally laid out by the instructor, and
the progress made by the pupils in
lhree years is almost beyond compre-
hension.
The Globe representative was pre-
sented with a beautiful basket made
by Charles McLin, 4-A grade. Napier
School. This basket is eight inches
in diameter at the bottom and seven
and one-half inches at the top. About
midway the cylinder sides drop off in
three-fourths inch taper, which adds
materially to the beauty of the bas-
ket. 1t is styled the Lazy Squaw
Weave" an Indian design in cylinder
shape.
A key rack made by Paul Thomp-
son and paper knife made by Lon.
ME McCage, of Meigs School, and a
small thread basket made the collec-
ton of souvenirs. One of the most
interesting exhibits to be seen at the
Meigs School is a mart gallery of
the leading Negro men in Nashville.
which has been collected by the 1st-P
grade pupils. This was done under
the supervision Of Miss Hattie Caruth.
ers, who takes these living witnesses
to make a lasting impression upon
the minds of the little boys and girls.
They are taught that if the men and
women whose faces they have before
them to study have succeeded, many
of them under adverse conditions,
they, too, can do as much and even
more The rug weaving of Meigs
under Miss Matte Scales is as good
as any seen in the city.
Prof. Keith explained in detail how
the pupils are taught He puts spe-
cial stress on eXactness, as the inn
pressions made on the young minds
will Sticl, IN thaYn through lifa