El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1914-12-16
LITTLE
INTERVIEWS

THE SPUG.
L said that I would be a "spug,"
No useless gifts I'd buy.
My wife looked at me with shrug
And heaved a patient sigh.
I've heard all that before" said she,
ITS quite passe, m dear
So old, IN fact, it seems to me
You've said it every year"
She then began to tell me what
The folks had bought for me
I could reciprocate or not
Shed not advise-not she.
I've gone and blown in all my dough,
Fine presents home 1 lug;
I cannot pike this time, you know,
Next year I'll be a "spug."
VIZ UR public school system
should be democratic and ev-
err effort is made by the Of
ficers and teachers in the schools to
keep a democratic spirit among the
school children" said Supt. R. J. Tighe.
TT is for this reason that the schools
generally discourage the giving of gifts
of any kind by the school children to
the teachers. While there are no rules
about this in the Ell Paso schools. we
certainly do not approve Of the prac-
uce. In the first place. If the glII IS 10
come from the room there are sure 10
be number of children whose parents
have not the means to make a contri-
button toward the gift. If these chill
dren do not Join in with the others, 1t
creates an unpleasant feeling and II
they do contribute it works a hard-
ship upon them.
of all things we wish to AVOID is
any semblance of partially, or favor
itism, on the part of the teachers. For
all these reasons, the giving OF pres
ents by the school children, either IN
dividually or collectively, to any OF the
school officials or teachers, is discour-
aged and disapproved.'
The work of the camp fire circles
for the girls corresponds to the work
of the Boy Scouts" said Mrs H. L.
Bowie. In these little camp fiIe cir
cles every effort is made to make work
attractive to the girls. The camp fire
circle duties include health craft, home
craft, hand craft and camp and WOOD
craft. IN the health craft special hon
or beads are given at regular periods
to the girls who sleep out of doors or
with all the windows wide open, who
do a certain amount Of regular daily
outdoor exercise and who carry out
other rules of health. The home craft
honor beads are awarded for tultllllng
the various duties about a home, as
sweeping, making beds, washing dishes
and cooking various articles OF food
In the hand craft duties the girls re-
ceive honor beads for sewing garments
In the camp craft, the honor beads are
given for being able to build fire
without matches, to follow trail by
indian bIazes, to walk a certain dis
lance in a given time, to tie various
kinds of knots and do other things sim
liar to the Boy Scout work In order
to be a full member of the camptires
A number of required duties must be
0pTf cd from p2p6 of the various
crafts
Il am glad to see that so many Of
the men in FL Paso. both young and
old, have taken up bowling as an ex-
ercise." said mayor c. z. Kelly. There
is nothing which tends to the uplift of
a city as the good health and physical
strength of its citizens. Although !
have never been very proficient at the
game I can fully realize the benefits to
fact that bowling not only tends TO
strengthen all Of the muscles of the
body but also that no man who bowls
regularly has ever been known to be
a victim of appendicitis. And the best
part Of the game is that a man need
not be proficient at the game to de-
rive all of the benefits which accrue
from bowling. No matter how poor
bowler a man may be, he can get just
as much exercise from the game as
the man who is an expert at it,
Much credit is due to the new men
engaged in fostering athletics in FL
PasO for the great interest taken in
all branches of sport, both indoor and
outdoor during the present year said
judge A S. J. Eylar. There appears
to be more interest taken in football,
baseball. basketball and track work
this year than ever before in the his
tory of FL Paso. Tennis is also being
in
doors there are volleyball, handball
swimming, jumping and many other
indoor events And the little fellows
are getting their innings, too. in the
new game of soccer, which has been in
troduced into the public schools
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"El Paso merchants have the real
Christmas spirit" said Dewitt F. Har-
vey, of Louisville KY. in no city that