Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1914-06-07

APARTMENT under direction OF ID. v. Eel
guson, supervisor.
About 5000 boys from the fifth
sixth, seventh an deighth grades o
As public schools working in 80 man
ual training shops have disc overed {
10Y in going to school they had moi
known before, and many Of them {
real purpose in life.
At the Madison school will be
| shown q five-room bungalow, every
article OF furniture in which. with the
exception Of the rugs, will have been
made by. the boys in the grade schools
Of st. Paul.
In the library there will be an oak
table, a mans and a wOman's desk,
a morris CHAIR and two morris rock
ers.
II the kitchen there will be a kitch.
en- cabinet, a table, matchboxes.
RACKS 1Or Knives duu III No Ahu " Aoot
of other kitchen utensils.
Tho table and chairs in the dining
room will be made by the school chill
dren. There will be cane chairs, a
buffet. a side sewing table and serv.
ing trays.
In the sitting room there will be
chairs and a small side table.
At the Franklin school the boys
have been working at a bungalow
one.eighth size to scale. Robert D.
Berg, instructor. had plans for a bun
galow of his own. He reduced the
dimensions and under his direction
the boys built it. They have done
every bit Of the worm. The bungalow
contains four rooms on the ground
floor, Is windows, three doors, three
pairs of steps and a porch.
Under the direction Of S. S. Tingle,
Hill school, the boys thought it
would be nice to reply to James J.
Hill in kind. So they got the plans
of a Great Northern box car. Today
there is a car one.sixth actual size
with every detail! complete and cor
rect with the Great Northern's name
on 1t.
Miss Nellie Ray, Crowley school,
had her charges make bird cages.
Some IS have been made. They will
be used by the park superintendent
this summer.
At the Phalen Park school the boys
took up electricity. Each boy made a
set of electric bells. The neighbor-
hood homes have been we'll supplied
with electric bells ever since.
Children at Cleveland and Ericsson
schools made baskets, clothes ham,
pers and other cane ware.
At the Madison school Leonard E.
Forst has had his charges making
concrete bridges, flower boxes and a
settee.
At the Kendall school the boys
have been laying brick. The Mounds
Park school will contribute a large
bookcase. At the Mckinley school
there is a large library table practi-
cally finished.
At the Hancock school the boys
are making toys, such as aeroplanes,
Dutch windmills, automobiles, a wire
less telegraph and other things Of
like nature. Some wonderful childs'
furniture has been made at the Doug.
las school.
J. R. Hall, Webster school, has set
the boys to making a huge rol-top
desk. Windmills, wagon jacks,
wheelbarrows, chicken coops, a silo
and other garden and farm imple'
ments are being made at the Long
fellow school.
So, throughout the entire public
school system Of St. Paul the boys
are actively engaged in making some
thing practical. Theoretical instruc-
ton is limited. At the beginning Of
the work in the fifth grade the young
ster is required to memorize six rules
that have to do with %"squaring
stock"
The most significant fact about the
new system of education Is its popu.
larity. The boy who refuses to take
an interest in anything else will work
in the manual training department.
At the Madison school one after
noon it was time to dismiss the class.
"Those who wish to be excused
may CO." announced the teacher.
Over half of the boys stayed in.
Outside a clear, cloudless day was
calling.
"The boys would stay here" re-
marked the teacher, until Z o'clock
if we let them"
In answer to q question of disci-
pline another teacher remarked
1.-THE worst punishment is to keep
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