St. Tammany farmer. [volume] (Covington, La.) 1874-current, 1912-11-09
thderural schools may we'll be proud
Of the showing they have made.
Vaudeville. HOITLTOVILLE

thdsrural schools may we'll be prout
|of the showing they have made.
VAUDEVILLE, HOULTOVILLE
AND LEWISBURG, SCHOOLS.
These schools showed the intuenc.
of being near the water, where Their,
is fishing and boating. There wer,
sail boats and fishing nets, squire
cages and other things showing thu
mechanical skill of the pupils. Their.
were also doll houses and fans
aprons and other wearing apparel
and some very pretty laundry bags
A wireless telegraph apparatus tina
would send messages 80 miles ant
receive 100 miles attracted consider
able attention. This was the worl
Iof J. Wallace Eastman, II years O.
(age.
F. Edw. Vix had some pretty worl
on exhibition.
An exhibit from the Lewisburg
school that was interesting and in
structive was a collection of the
seeds and leaves of trees of thai
locality. 1t included the locust
hickory, pin oak, live oak, white oak
cypress, magnolia, tallow tree, wilG
pecan, beach, sycamore, thorn tree
box elder, tupler gum, sweet gum
black gum.
sLIDELL SCHOOL.
The Slidell exhibit was fine dis
play of ornamental and fancy work
embroidered pillow shams and laun-
| dry bags and pin cushions, a very
handsome piece of work being that
of Miss O. Cornibe, hand painted
lounging pillow. The Slidell scholars
have been fortunate in having an
excellent teacher of drawing and
painting, and some of the work ex-
hibited in this booth is of very high
merit and attracted the attention OF
all who entered the booth.* The
science work also is very interest
ing, treating of insect life and show
ing some remarkably well preserved
specimens. Domestic art and me-
chanical ingenuity is also displayed
in the cabinet work, building and de-
vices of various kinds.
-. i CONVICTION SCHOOL.
The most attractive exhibit in the
Covington booth was the hammered
brass work. This is of late intro
duction into the school and the pupils
have shown great adaptability to the
work. Some of it iS extraordinarily
f1nk. There were doll houses and
bookcases, basket weaving and. do
nestle art Of all kinds. Aprons and
wearing apparel and embroidery and
decorative designs were in profusion,
and with so many pretty things it
was hard to tell which was the most
deserving Of praise. There were
beautiful 1ounging pillows, and one
felt like picking one up grabbing
some. Of the nice cake that was also
On exhibition and hunting a place
to lounge in and eat it; and between
the bites it would not have been bad
idea to read some of the excellent
compositions. But unfortunately the
ha,nmocks that had been woven by
tie little pupils in the lower grades
were not big enough to rest In.
ST. SCHOLASTICA ACADEMY.
This was another beautiful booth,
The needle work in this exhibit
great training and patience and a
technique that might have been
pride to any expert worker in the
art. Beautiful embroidered patterns
in pillow, tops and other things that
required = trained hand in the use
Of the needle were in profusion.
Painting OF flowers. in water coiors.
were very beautiful. and most OF the
work showed patience, care and
training, even in the remarkable pro-
ficiency of little ones six and seven
years of age
CHINCHUBA DEAF MUTE INST1-
TUTE.
This exhibit was both remarkable
and interesting, because the work was
the production Of those who could
neither hear nor speak, and there
fore were trained in their arts by
signs and lip movements which they
first had to master. A speech chart:
drawn at the institute and used in
teaching, was finely done. The ex-
contained much work very
much similar to the other schools
and equally we'll executed. Pickles
and jellies and domestic art, sewing
and embroidery, the use of tools and
other accomplishments showed that
the scholars of the institute were
being prepared for usefulness and
independence.
AWARDS IN POULTRY DEPART
MENT.
The awards in the poultry deport.
were made by Mr.. Bruce, an xperi- !
aenced poultry man, of New Orleans.
who donated the. Bruce cup. The
chickens exhibited were as fine as
are usually seen at any fair, and |
would have taken prizes in compe-
,ition at any show.
Joseph Schuyler won the St. Tam !
many Farmer cup for the best pen
If St. Tammany raised chickens, any
breed. He had the best pen, the
,est pair, single comb White Rock.
Adrien Almond won the blue rib
,on for cockerel and pen, single
.omb White Rock.
Mrs Henry ). Roy, Of the Glen
2cy Poultry T arm, won blue ribbon
or cockerel, blue ribbon for pullet
md red ribbon for cock. Also won !