Deming graphic. (Deming, N.M.) 1903-1948, 1910-10-28
THE HIGH SCHOOLS
r FRIDAY RECEPTION
Pleasant and Profitable Gath
ering of Patrons, Teach
ers and Pupils
TWO FINE PAPERS
Delightful Social Hour of
Great Good to all Con-
cerned.

Deming schools are the pride of
the town and when pupils and pa
irons meet, the patrons have
more wholesome respect for the pu-
pills and take little deeper interest
in school affairs.
Through the wise forethought of
our energetic and efficient princi-
pal, Mrs. M. l.. Gibbs. assisted by
pupils and patrons. plr1ned and
executed a very delight and pro-
fitable program and reception last
Friday. A large number of pa
irons were guests of the faculty and
pupils and are unanimous in praise
of their hosts. The opening num-
ber was very well rendered cho-
rus by the high school. followed by
fine piano duet by Ruby Chaum
and May Clifford and a charming
vocal solo by Louise Hodgdon. A
carefully prepared and exceedingly
well read paper on the Home and
School" by Mrs J. G.. Moir was Civ
en- rapt attention. Among other good
things she said that education is not
merely instruction, but it is the
development of the moral. physical,
aye, the very souls of our children;
that il is easier for the growing boy
to form one hundred good habits
than TO reform one bad one as an
+, adult; that personal sympathy is
the base of every human influence
and this humanizing agency is often
lacking between parent and child.
She gave forceful example of two
boys, one whose school work is con-
tinued with interest in the home,
the other where the opposite course
is pursued, carefully comparing the
good and bad influence on the lives
of each. The teachers best efforts
will fail unless the home influence is
right. 1t is the cooperative intlu-
ence of home and school that gives
the world the grand, successful
man. Poverty is no bar to educa-
ton in this wonderful age, She
referred to the medical attention
given to pupils in many of the
larger schools which is certainly d
great step forward and one that
will probably become universal
Her very able paper was CLOSED
with the following beautiful
thought;
LET us teach our youth the wis
dom as revealed in human lives a
well as in the pages of a printed
book, that every hour of every da!
we receive just reward for all ",
are and all we do, to believe in tn,
present and its opportunities, in thu
future and its promises y
A piano duet by Misses Ion,
Hodgdon and Esther Bolich was on
of the very pleasant features of tn
afternoon, and the "Tinkers' Cho
rus" by the high school boys, il
costume, brought forth hearty ap
plause and an encore.
One of the solid feasts of reaso
was the paper on Three Sides of
Triangle" by Mrs. Gibbs. A VIC
man of broad culture and wide eS
perience as a teacher, she dealt wit
the questions of home, school an
church in manner that rivcte
the attention of her auditors ever
moment. She advanced the Vel
sane idea that instead of the HON
developing the physical, the church
the spiritual and the school the il
tellectual, that they should co-ope
ate as a whole. The child is n uni
The whole child goes to churc
lives in the home and comes
school. The spiritual, intellectu
and physical phases of his natu
run together at the roots, and u
institutions which are to deveI'
these phases should recognize {
ssct and know that their work is
slight effect without cooperate
With home and school working
thorough accord the benefit to t
child will be three-fold greater tn
now. and the process a heavenly