El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1913-10-09

- ok DANCING has been started by
/ II Miss NJ. Kinnon at the Aoy school
4 and the children like it very
much The teachers feel that it will
do them a great deal of good, as the
school has never been able to have
basketball or other athletic teams. The
school is trying to meet the needs IF
the children in its district by givs-ig
the industrial work earlier. In the
American schools the manual arts are
not taken up until the fifth grade, but
here it is begun in the low fourth. The
children show an aptness for this KIND
of work and are much interested r
E Clark has the boys in the workshop.
They are taught mechanical drawing
and lettering, as well as the use OF
tools. and are given as much training
as possible in the elementary manual
work. The girls are started in sewing
in the low fourth grade and as soon
as they have learned the different
stitches are taught to cut and to use
the machine They are started out on
making bags then aprons and their
cooking class uniforms, which they
are taught to cut and make themselves.
Pupils Responding to Manual Training.
Much Importance is being placed on
the manual training work in all the
schools this year. W A. Burk, the
supervisor Of the manual arts, is put
ting a good deal OF enthusiasm into
the work and the pupils are respond
ing most satisfactorily. At the meet
ings monthly of the manual training
teachers current events in this de-
partment will be particularly empha-
sized, each teacher taking for discus
sion some movement in this line OF
work that is being successfully tried
elsewhere. In this way the teachers
are keeping up to date in all industrial
educational movements.
The work for the boys is so ar
ranged that If the boy continues his
hi hn
a very thorough training, and under
stand every branch Of the work If
he is compelled to drop out of school,
each grade work has given him its
quota of good practical training and
experience. The boys are started out
with knife work and whiting. They
are taught through all the work of
mechanical drawing so that they can
are TO work upon In this grade the
scroll saw, tri squares and small planes
are used They make rulers to scale.
pencil sharpeners, match strikers and
kitchen racks. All this work is in
only two dimensions, length and
breadth.
Larger Tools in Advanced Grades.
In the high fifth grade larger tools
are introduced and construction work
IS begun, such as making bracket
shelves and Whisk broom holders
In the sixth grade all the regular
tools are used, the spoke shave, the
marking gage and hand saws. Key
racks. coat hangers and counting
planning exercise, and the counting
boards an exercise in using the brace
and bit.
The tool work is continued in the
high sixth. Woodworking to give IA
miliarity with all the tools being used.
More difficult exercises in construction
are introduced, such as making roller
towel racks and hat and coat racks
students z1ake Useful Articles.
Elementary Joinery is taken up in
the seventh grade, the exercise being
the making Of knife and glove boxes
with hinges and locks and the finish
ing of woods is introduced.
Joining and cabinet making form
the work in the eighth grade. Bookk
racks, Joined with pin joints, foot stools
with the beginning Of upholstery work
and padding are among the exercises
In this grade cabinet making with ma
chinery is introduced. Up to the eighth
grade all the Wolk is done with hand
tools. All the regular cabinet shop
equipment is used.
In the first year of the High school
large cabinet pieces are made, big
pieces that the boys work upon the
entlre school year, such as buffets,
book cases, library tables, and other
pieces of furniture that need paneling,
joining and fine finishing.
Course Completed in High
The second year at high school COM
pletes the manual training work course
Wood turning is specialized in this
year. teaching the use of different tools
and making such things as dumb bells,
indian clubs, pStato Washers. rolling
pins, and other useful articles The
latter half of the year is given to the
making of wood patterns of machine
parts. During the manual training
work, classes are taken by the instruc-
tors to the different foundries and pat
tern shops in the city to observe ex-
perienced workers in action. The me-