Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1914-11-23
GREAT PROGRESS
Of |NDUsTR RIAL
WORK IS SHOWN
Exhibits, Though Not All in
Place Yesterday, Evlnce
Vast Improvements in Con-
ditIons Over the State,

Those who slill hesitate IN adsocht-
ing manual training. domestic science
and domestic at IN the public schools,
should Visit the state exhibit on the
third floor of the public library build
Ing. TO which the schools from every
part OF the Suite have made their
contributions. urcly. to no other
state Of the union has the introduce
ton OF Industrial training brought 80
rich a. reward In SO brief a time and
at go small un expense. II is true that
Ia short term districts IL seems mad
visahlc to crowd manual training into
the five short hours allotted to the
essential studies hut why not give
Industrial training outside Of the five
hours seven months school means
500 hours Of schooling, but districts
that cannot afford seven months
school eun crowd 500 hours into five
months for there Is no law prohibit
ing six or seven hours school instead
OF five hours daily, and six days in
stcnd Of five days week. What a
gain in efficiency II would mean 10
New Mexico In each district, If such
such extra hours caeh day, and such
extra day each week were devoted to
Industrial training.
iicrnaIilIo County Leads.
superintendent Atannsio Montoya
was first 10 get up the exhibits of his
rural districts aud they were a revcla-
ton the visitors who visited the IL
bfary building yesterday Each dis
trict has a booth TO itself and against
a background of buflap are placed the
specimens not only of domestic art
and manual training but also Of pen
drawing and written excr-
cises old Albuquerque, Ranchos de
Atrisco. Ranches de Albuquerque, Los
Duranes, South Second street, North
Fourth street, Alameda. Dos padillas
Los Griegos, We'd with each other
In their display Of plain and fancy
sewing. crochetlng. embroidery, bas-
het and bead work, tatting, blanket
weaving aud rross-stltchlng.
Those who examined the work criti-
cnlly pronounced il good. but those
with an Imagination Stocked beyond
tho technique. They saw little figures
bonding joyfully over their task. their
eyes glowing, their fingers nlmbiy
fashloning the things Of beauty; they
snw a new light Ia many homes; they
stw dreams Of the future. they aw
and dumb resignation
into visions Of finer and
wider life.
Take the inscription on a domestic
science exhibit from Ranches de Al
buauerquc "Thc Yeast was made BY
i girl at home The bread was set
and worked at school II was made
INTO these different forms and baked
IN a nelghboring kitchen. The patron
who offered her kitchen invited us to
come again and asked for each recipe.
She wished 70 make each kind Of
bread we made
Added 20 this there are exhibits of
canned goods. of jums and jellies, Of
All kinds Of cakes ana candles, from
seheelk in communities where these
things were practically unknown be-
fore, and there comes a eomprehen-
sion VI what the introduction Of do
nestle science In the rural schools Of
New Mexico contributes to the hap
pincss OF hundreds, sea thousands OF
homes.
Exhibits like That Of the Industrial
club, OF Of the manual training ctass
Of the Albuquerque high school. surely
are revelation. Pieces of furniture,
artistic, substantial useful fashioned
by hoys many Of them with spanish
American names, are proof that the
manual training impaired is not a
mere smattering but that the instruc-
ton * thorough Niid practical and
gives the deft hand of youth an or
porinnity 10 leain its.lf along useful
lines,
A Touch of Ilumor.
In Dnrnes there evidently lives a
joker. a boy or a girl or teacher en-
dowed with that saving quality Of
humor one must smile good-na-
turedly in looking over part OF the
exhibit There is wagon fashioned
from half IA melon, homegrown The
horses are squashes grown in the
shape OF an animal the men are po-
tatoes with carrot legs. Following the
wagon is a boat made out Of a cucum-
her aud there are other similar arti-
eles displaying originality.
Here and there. one finds doll
houses. some OF them pretentlously
furnished. but all demonstrating that
wonderful. worid-old home making