Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1914-05-28
THOUSANDS SEE
WORK OF PUPILS
IN THE SCHOOLS
Remarkable Exhibits At
tract Attention to Voca-
tional Side of the Boise
Public School System.


by an instructor who was looking after
the exhibits and seeing that the visit
ors were properly shown through the
various sections
While the exhibits before have al
ways brought forth favorable comment,
the school patrons were hardly expect
ing such a striking advancement as
was shown this year and so thoroughly
did they wish to inspect the work OF
the hundreds of pupils that it was past
the closing hour before the crowd left.
One of the big features of the ex-
hbit which is attracting attention is a
map OF Idaho made by the students of
the chemistry class, taught by Profess
sor Edward Rhodenbaugh. The map
shows up the mineral resources of the
state by counties. Ores of various
types were displayed in each county
according to its production, while the
final production of each class of min
eral in the state is summed up in fig
ures, the salient point brought out
being that the Gem state leads in the
production o. lead.
Home Made Diplomas.
The 1914 diplomas to be given to the
125 graduates were prepared by the
students of the architectural depart
ment, taught by Professor Plummer,
who also has charge of the manual
training. Complete drawings of bung-
allows, houses, apartment houses and
flats were also gotten out, with the
specifications for each set of plans pre-
pared by the students and typewriter
for them by the students in the COM
mercial department.
The poster and WINDOW card designs
show excellent work and some of the
designs used in the cantata, THE Rose
Maiden" and for all the high school
entertainments were gotten out by the
students. The leader in this work is
Ray Hunter, whose designs of window
cards are unique and finely lettered.
Domestic Science Work.
The grade students in the domestic
science department, taught by Miss
Norris, showed the rabllity in cooking
in a remarkable display. They partici-
pated in a contest IN cake, biscuits and
mullins. The winners and the schools
which they attend are as follows:
Cake--Girls of the eight B classes
First honors taken by Central school;
Mary King, aged IA, and Jessie Orig
son, aged 10. Second honors to Long
fellow school; Alice Lynch, aged IA,
and Ruth Rowland, aged a.
Biscuit contest-Seventh A grade
classes-First honors to Washington
school; Effe Rife, aged IA. and Mar
garet Franklin, aged -. Second honors
to Garfield school; Marie Mautz, aged
II, and Ruth Gill, -,ged 10.
Muffin contest-Seventh B grade
classes-First honors to Central school;
Elizabeth Bartlett, eyed 10, and Henri
eta Simons, aged IL. Second honors
to Park school; Tishie Cleverly, aged
IL, and Ethel Long, aged IS.
Miss Lakes students have worked
out a food value lists and have them
on exhibition. 1t is well and cleverly
explained by the students, although
that branch of the domestic science
work has been recently taken up.
Commercial department.
The statement that business and pro-
fesSional men are too busy to take an
interest and investigate the work done
by students was shown to be an error
yesterday, at least as far as the COM
mercial department was concerned, as
many men visited the place, looked
over the work of the students, noted
the writing and bookk eeping and took
records of the shorthand tests and also
that of typewriting ofthose scoring the
highest In the typewriting depart
ment, Miss Hatch points with pride to
the r cord made by Miss Helen Veatch,
who started in typewriting work but a
short time ago. On Jan. Is, the first
test this year, she made a record of
43.3, words per minute for 10 minutes
and in the last test, on May IL, wrote
6450 words a minute for 10 minutes
Considering that a mistake counts off
the number of words written, the rec
ord is a remarkable one. The second
student in the test was Miss Dinwiddie
whose final record was 81 words per
minute, with Miss Myrtle Rose third
with a record of 81 words In the adj
vanced class in typewriting 13 out Of
15 wrote more than 40 words per
minute.
In January Miss Veatch and Miss
Gallet won the Underwood certificate
for efficiency in writing As words. The
Remington pennant, given to begin
ners for efficiency in writing rs words,
was won by Nadine Barada and Jessie
Kanagy. Remington typewriter
made on a Remington machine by
Mable Sharp shows the artistic work
which can be done on a machine. 9th
er work IN this line is also fine, espe-
cially an entrance to the high school,
done by Emma Mitchell, and an en-
trance to the Standard Furniture COM
panys store. by Miss Helen Veatch.
An Oregon Short Line train crossing
the bridge was worked out by Leila
Gray and is also a clever design.
The work of tabulating and billing
from solid copy was closely scrutinized
by the visitors, as was also the legal
forms made and the specifications. The
typewriting department also has saved
the school considerable expense as in
1t all the letters to be sent out in num-
bers by the school are written, the
plays for the expression class and the
specifications for the bidders on the
Lowell school were prepared In this
department last year.
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