Arizona republican., 1913-05-25

you realize that many are just dlScoV- | ering Arzona's wealth in health, in pure air, dry air and sunny days that | last all the year round, and that the | Tempe Normal is on the southside of 1 the big Salt River the waters of which 1 flowed for many centuries in compar- ative uselessness, until man diverted l them over the land, making it a garden | fit for the gods. Here there is prac-. tically no winter, and the girls sleep ! out of doors all the year round. What girl leaving the school will forget the | sleeping porch with it's rows and rows | of white iron beds-the upper and | lower porches were screened in. en- trance being from within the dormitory while heavy curtains are in readiness to drop if it rains Visiting the school, l given room opening out upon one of these porches. Getting up in the night to look out at the night, saw instead of rows of white beds. Listen ing for a sound, heard none, not even heavy breathing fro a one of the whole bunch. All was oblivion of lessons what a sweet thing is slumber. In the middle of each little bed was a roll of white. fairy covered to the ears. I begun to count-eighty-wh folly to do such a thing-they are all out here some place. It's splendidly glorious. None of them will ever want to sleep in doors again. What would our grandparents say to our breathing the night air" Their rooms, without beds. become cosy studies and dressing rooms. the envy. of all visitors. Why the girls of Vassar, Smith Wellesley and other colleges would go wild over the sleeping porch of the Tempe Nor maj. How they got into their beds without my hearing them was mys- tery. When the rising bell rang, out they slipped like many ghosts, and rushed to their rooms to dress. Won derful as was this. the revelation of their having learned a secret many never learn in their whole lives. was more so-that of silence. On the side learned that to be noisy on the sleep ing porch meant to have to go in the house to sleep for the rest of the term nothing could be more awful-henee the absolute silance--it was charm ing, the more so than anything I ever knew.
 With this years fiftytwo, the Nor mai has turned out 535 graduates. who hold certificates to teach in the public schools of the baby state This is a | uates got his or her diploma without having taught one hour a day for one year in the training school of the Nor mal. 1S3 pupils of which are part Cf the public school of Tempe Of all grades between first primary and the eighth. Before lessons are presented they are prepared submitted to critic. and if any fault is found re- I submitted, before being taught to the 1 children. A year of this drill makes teacher teach.
 This years class is composed of stu l dents who have spent five years in the | school. having entered from grammar | grades. Others came after graduating ! in high schools. these have spent two | years here, save those who took work
 in two summer schools. Such have only spent a year and a half in the 1 Normal.
 In the big dining room, so familiar 1 to many a Phoenician, all is chatter of
 the events of which the exhibition last
 night the first.
 | Class day. the banquet. sermons and l lectures galore, dances; and "cram" for Zams is important to be sure of l next years entrance. Last fall it was
 necessary to turn away several stu dents for want of rooms. this will
 hardly be necessary this year with the
 room now available for new students.
 I have not recovered from the answer
 to what it cost to live in this school
 think of it-board. light. heat, use of
 bath, linen for beds, and towels with
 washing for rooms, and a wash room
 in the house where pupils may wash
 and iron for themselves, for less than ! ,l0lI e
 cannot afford to keep their children at
 home, when they think of the syste-
 matic study child gets thrown in. not
 to mention the sports and special life
 naturally a part of the school, all
 thrown in. I have never lived so cheap
 now will these students live so again
 once they are outside of the school