The Falls City tribune., 1910-04-22
ANNUAL SCHOOL EXHIBIT
SCHOOL EXHIBIT AND ART Ex-
HIBIT COMBINED.
kindergarten Work, Etc. BY Pupils
to Be Shown -- Display of
Fine Art Productions.

The Falls City schools will have
their annual exhibit next week, be-
ginning April 2S This will consist
of two parts, school exhibit and art
exhibit. The school exhibit includes
work in drawing and penmanship,
language. geography, history and lit
erature booklets, relief maps and
maps in water color and crayon,
raffia and reed weaving. mats, bas-
kets, in fact all forms of work that
can be performed or illustrated with
the hands. The work in drawing con-
water color. The children have done
some surprisingly good work in this.
Some excellent specimens of penman-
ship will be shown, and some beau
tiful Indian baskets woven by the
children. Most of this material will
be artistically mounted on boards and
papers of appropriate colors and will
be displayed in the club rooms over
the city library, the Women's FEEDER
alton having kindly granted the use
of these rooms for that purpose.
This part of the exhibit alone will
be sufficient in quantity and quality
to make a very interesting educa
tional and art display
The other part of the exhibit will
consist of 200 pictures loaned by the
A. w. Elson Co of Boston. These
will be hung in the council rooms
over the city library. They consist
of carbon photographs. etchings, en-
cravings, etc, reproductions of the
masterpieces most suitable for school
and representing the best artists of
every age and country The study
of good pictures is recognized as a
most refining influence and this ex
tunity, not only for the children of
the schools, but to all interested in
culture. Besides, a part of the pur-
pose is to raise money for the pur-
chase of pictures to be kept perman-
emily in the schools One of the
things most striking noticed in visit
ing the schools of the larger cities,
is the profuse decoration of the
rooms and corridors with beautiful
pictures and statuary; yeritable pic
ture galleries, many of them are.
We have many bare walls that might
be reading silent lessons to the child
ren as they pass
On Friday evening the 29th, the
schools will give a program at the
Auditorium, weather permitting, in
which each room will be represented.
Following is the program:
Chorus, Boating Song Zion and
third and fourth grades. Central
Drill, second and third grades, Harlan
Chorus, first grade pupils.
Exercise, Kindergarten, Central.
Chorus, second grade pupils.
Drill, third and fourth grades, Cen
trail
Exercise, "A Rainy Day" second
grade Central.
Chorus, seventh and eighth grade
pupils.
Chorus, fifth and sixth grades, High
School
Guests From Whittier Land third
and fourth grades, High School.
Chorus, fifth. sixth, seventh and
eighth grades
The children will probably sec you
about buying tickets The room sell
ing the most tickets gets large
picture, donated by the company from
whom the loan is obtained.
The purpose of the exhibit and
program are: lst-To give patrons
an opportunity to see some of the
things the schools are doing I'd
To provide a means of culture for
pupils, their parents. and friends.
3d--As stated above, to raise money
for the purchase of pictures to be
kept in the schools.
Every ticket you buy will help in
this. Wear your ticket, or hang it
in the front window This will save
your being called upon twice
Single tickets, admitting to the
program, and one to the exhibit 10c
and 25c
Season tickets, admitting to the
program and as often as desired to
the exhibit, (you will want to go
more than once) 20ca nd 25e.
Mrs. w w. spurlock and daughter