Evening journal., 1913-08-30
CHILDREN in
SCHOOL AGAIN
NEXT TUESDAY
Vacation Days and Happy
Summer Season Draw Near
Their Close
CHURCHES AND SOCIETIES
PREPARE WINTER WORK

Vacation days and summer weather
are fast drawing TO close. In
another week pleasure seekers, old
and young, will be hurrying home
ward from seashore. mountains and
country TO take up their respective
social and business duties, and the
city will be in the midst OF the usual
busy hum and whirl OF the autumn
season. which Will shortly give way
to the buster whirl OF social activities
aud gaieties Of the winter.
Next week history will repeat itself
when stores will be besieRed for
siates, pencils rulers, tablets. erasers.
pens and all the paraphernalia
necessary to school work; and 10 the
ciang of the school bells from far and
near, the march of the army OF school
children, which army grows larger
annually, viii begin Rarely have
educational advantages been greater
than az the present time, and In
practically all OF the city schools.
manual training and domestic science.
which play SO important part in the
modern training Of young men and
young women. is an established fea
ture Of the regular school curriculum
Or George W. Twitmyer. when
questioned on the subject today said
there Will be no very great increaae
IN the number Of school children and
students who viii answer roll call in
ithe various schools on next Tuesday
morning. lie said that there had been
no unusual demand FOR seats and that
'he number Of those attending would
average not a great many more than
lne attendance last term which was
llooo. When ono considers for a
moment the quoted figures, one real
i1es the Importance. not alone OF odu
cation, but that the efficiency OF those
n charge must be OF the highest so
That those IN their care who are so
soon 10 be The men and women of the
future may stand for ali that is
nohlest and best under the stars and
stripes not only in their home CITY.
bui throughout the country.
ihe work this term AZ the VIII
mlng'on iigh school viii be OF pn-
usual interest
Tho siudenih viii assemble an
ipnndat for re orranisafion hnt ,hr
Assembly exercises VIII moi benin
until some time later Members M
ne Civic Class are ready 10 take
their places. eager 10 be foremost In
an that counts for civic betterment
Each Of the other schools win take
up its respective work. ali OF them
combining to instill the first and
deepest principles OF that which
stands high above all else-educa-
tlon. The Or. r. G. Shortiidge
school al Boulevard and Concord
avenue will be ready for occupancy
on the first day OF the new term. The
school viii be open tonight for visit
ors. Sunday School work and that
of The various church ORGANIZATIONS.
which has been dormant during the
summer time. while teachers. schol-
ars and tired pastors. ministers and
rectors alike have enjoyed the brief
period OF rest and play time, will al
so De resumed next week but the fall
ana winter work an the New Century
Club, Delaware Daughters of 1912.
Caesar Rodney Chapter d. A. r.. and
similar organizations will not be re-
organized until the early part of
October.
The first Of the big church meetings
viii be that Of The third quarterly meet
ing of the Foreign Missionary Societies
OF the Wilmington Conference. which
VIII be held early in September. Mem.
berS of the w c. r. L. in this and
other cities and towns are preparing for
the thirty-fourth annual convention. %
be held in st. paul's Church September
"a to o.
Officers. delegates. delegate at large
and alternates will be present from the
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