The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1912-07-07

no object, just the work. and We are
happy to have been one of the guests at
so wonderful and unique an entertain
ment. AS we entered the premises we
were brought in view of a beautiful
bouquet of boys and girls on the steps,
pyramid of red, white and blue, with
the justly proud little teachers standing
at each side. A photographer, home
made one, with a kodak was taking
picture of the group. Then the class
MARCHED into the porch, where the ex-
ercises began. The first thing on the
program was Good morning." solo by
tiny Katherine Gilbert. She stood in the
middle of circle, with a wreath of Is
little boys and girls joining hands around
her, each tot had sash of red crepe
paper and held a flag, while pinned to
the side just over the heart was tiny
flag of celluloid, bearing the words, BE
an American" In the chorus all the
childish voices joined, and then the moth
ers saw Just what the little teachers were
doing for their children. and what the
neighborhood kindergarten means to their
home
AS the grandmothers stood around and
saw them grouped in their circle with
song, it carried them back to days of
"oats, sweet beans and barley grow or
Frog in the middle
Then in succession were sung, "Farm-
mulberry bush,' The Fiddle" and 'Jen-
ME JONES'" with Miss Leon Weber i'm
personating Jennie JONES' These songs
were born of ancient history and have
so much of life and melody, so much of
action that they have been handed down
from nursury to nursery, and have Hlled
pages of soulful songs. The rendering
of them, the memorizing the words. by
children SO young, reflected the real tall
ent of the instructors. to train a class of
eighteen in only few weeks. for so in
| teresting an exhibition points to use
| full future for these little girls. They
| find that drawing is a method to keep
silence and train the hands as well as to
| develop a talent, so they have employed
as instructor in this department., and we
are looking for an invitation to their art
| class in the near future. We understand
| Helen's salary is 10 cents a week. We
| stated Miss Wells and Weber were not
looking to the money end of the enter
prise, we beg to correct this After the
| first part of the programme was con-
cluded series number two was arranged
| for. Then came a contest, each boy
must draw for his girl. There would be
| refreshments served and they would
march into the dining room. Thus an
| other clever scheme was observed, the
teachers had cut advertisements into two
J
drawn for. The two drawing companion
sections We're partners and the guest
drawing the whole ad, received prize a
box of bonbons. This was drawn by
Master b. P. Mcdonald. We imagine
every little boy who drew one of those
beautiful little girls felt he had drawn a
prize and we know each little girl
marched with nice little boy The class
composed of Katherine Gilbert, Evelyn
Gilbert, Helen Gilbert, Martha Hood
Louise Mcdonald, Florence and Lucy
Stevens. Dorothy Watkins, Leon Weber
1 Alma Morrison, Eleanor Richardson. Bert
lGibert, Bernard Burton. Sam Beach
Rand Hood, B. p. Mcdonald. Jr Geo
! Wells. III. and Henry Scudder Ryall
marched two and two, to be served with
delightful sherbet. cake and bonbons. VIZ
before stated we would take back wha
| we said about the little teachers as imam
cers,~.we understand they paid for the
refreshments from their own income, 81
we hardly know what words to use II
expressing their type of genius. shall W.
say they are schemersNas we'll as won
derful little girls? Every plan is a scheme
then I know they are architects, the,
are not only building foundation for {
splendid womanhood for themselves. bu
they are bringing out the talents of thei
class.
You recall sometimes when we reat
newspaper stories that we wonder how
the reporter found out all the facts. 81
we will tell you how we found out a 10
about out little hostess, in Mrs. Wells
home The decorations were of gorgeous
zenias of every hue, and as we sat neal
the window and were served our refresh