The Salt Lake tribune. [volume] (Salt Lake City, Utah) 1890-current, 1913-07-13

there were no sluggards, every ono
seeming TO realize that there were onIv
ihNe months OF school. and even Thai
had to be cut short for some of the
boys, who would be needed on H. t%e
farm before the school closed.
Miss Manchester has provided +,
great deal OF old-fasbioncd ''dippiup''
I'm few of the fundamental braocbo.
but She has wisely introduced as manv
recreatiFc studies and exercises as fa.
cllitlcs and opportunities would perm;t
\ comparatively large library has been
accumulated by the school aud nj le,st
one book month was read aloud IN
the school as sort of relaxation
nerlod. a weekly newspaper was pub.
!Ished. pew pupil acting as editor
another us reporter. and so forth. for
each issue. thus giving each ono a
varied experience at the lost art Of se,f.
EXPRESSION.
An old organ, donatnl was the source
OF aD lmmeasurably great amount of
pleasure TO The children. and the how,
aud girls who probably never whistIed
or hummed bar Of Music before Left
that little log schoolhonsc this spring
! with a score Of Miss Manchester's songs
and tunes OIL his lips, aud only those
who have experienced this bappy
Journey from the tallSinc TO the sinc.
Ing world--from the world Of common
! place things to the world of music. all
in one short winter. knows how very
much this has added 20 The lives Of
| those little folks. Music acts like
kindness. it finds welcome in eyery
mind, no matter how crude It's other
experiences have been.
| Social entertainments seem more
necessary where so many of the pupils
are dwelling temporarily on the
campus, and evening programmes
were conducted by the teacher much
10 the pleasure Of the parcnts-for she
includes manners and the commoner
forms of etiquette in her home teach.
ing-and to the advantage of the chill.
dren. The most frequent evening meet
ings are had through the kindness Of
the women living closest to the school,
who take turns inviting the pupils TO
their homes; and games and corn pop
ping by the children Will usually out
last the cribbage and whist games of
the old folks, and the evening is fin
ished with apples for lunch, brought
in from the Uinta valley.
! was there, and those boys and girls
were all excitement and anticipation
A great day Of speech making, dia-
logucs and parents visiting, with Il
real Christmas tree celebration, was
planned. The mountains round about
are strcwn with thousands of the prct-
tiest Of Christmas trees and. of course.
tree so fine and large that would
have been TOO costly for even the
wealthiest city family was secured and
erected in the schooroom.
Large quantities Of lead foil from
tobacco. furnished by the children
whose fathers used chewing tobacco
was utilized to give human touch ia
the decorations of the tree, and make
it glitter in the lamp light. Bnt-and
Miss Manchester said It with a LITTLE
lump in her throat-therc WASH t a sin
gle article from store 10 he hung o,
displayed upon it as gift. not even d
stick of candy. nor was there a single
candle to burn upon il, for no one from
the canyon had been 'on the outside
(to town. for month.
"Anyway,' ii was voted eve vii
have the Christmas tree. And so those
little brown mountain farmers, who
chase each other over the rocks an,
, led2es and mountain sides al play anC
: picnic, from the Trias 10 the Cretace
: Gus geological ages or earth strata, anc
back down again to the Permlal
? shelves, stopping here and there IL
! peer into ancient history through th'
? cllff dwellerS' ruins on Hu Inaccessible
, sheIf-went ahead and had thei
make believe Christmas tree. Just a
interestedly and as seriously as thel
r city cousins have gone ahead Studlet
= geology and prehistoric people tbrougl
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