The Birmingham age-herald., 1914-04-11
SOME OF THE THINGS SEEN AT THE SCHOOL EXHIBITS
 DISPLAYED AT CITY HALL.
By FLORA mILNER HARRISON

A very popular feature of the Alabama Educational association, now in session here( is the exhibit of work from schools throughout the state This exhibit is in the armory at the city hall, and consists of industrial work from many parts of the state.
 The space immediately in front of the door is devoted to the girls canning clubs and the boys corn clubs. Mir I. B. <er- ling is in charge of the display He has a large outline map of Alabama, showing each county with the club figure mafsed in each Seventeen counties have pig clubs, with county organization, and IS are organized in tomato club work. There are 1884 tomato club girls and approxi- mately 5000 corn club boys Mir Kerling has several pictures from the pig club boys, and he has concise reports from the boys and girls who have made the best records in this work.
 Close by is the drawing from the lief ferson county schools. Miss Eva Alex ander, who arranged this work, has grouped the drawings according to the class of school. puttisg together all the work of the one-teacher schools, the two teacher schools, and on through the schools with larger faculties.
 In addition to this display. several of the Jefferson county schols have indi- vidual booths in which are shown their raffia. woodwork. plain sewing, and em broidery.
 In Powderly's booth Is portrait of President Wilson copied in crayon from print that is well known. This is the work of one of the schools boys and the frame was made and stained by the same boy
 A magazine stand, several smaller pieces of woodwork, three stencilled table run ners, and some pretty raffia baskets rep resent the Boyles school.
 In Mulga's booth IS mission style nor ris chair and tasteful display of needle work.
 The drawing from Brighton school makes their booth very attractive indeed.
 Fossil school has some very neat plain sewing and copies of the garden booklets the children have made. These folders contain stories and statistics of their plots and word lists of vegetables, weeds, and garden tools. The covers are brown paper decorated with an appropriate de- sign. In this way the books show cor relation of agriculture, composition, spell ing, panmaHship and drawing.
 
 small glass case filled with earth in which seeds are sproutinT
 The Atkinson Mentzer company. pub fishers of the state adopted drawing books, have an excellent display of work from the Indianapolis schools. The flowers in water color are very dainty and there are also good conven- tional designs.
 A Montevallo school has the largest exhibit and the work is really won derful. Especially interesting are pie lures of dresses designed by the girls. In a glass show case are trays, can dle sticks and other small articles mod eled from Autauga clay. They are pret- tily decorated and show the girls training In designing.
 Lowndes county has some good wood- work, including little log cabin.
 From the Talladega public schools is most tasteful group of water color pictures.
 Woodwork and hammered brass are from the Walker county high school.
 Some half dozen large blueprints are in the Auburn booth
 The Jacksonville normal exhibit in cludes all phases of industrial work.
 Sewing is most in evidence in the hvin gston normal booth Several even ing dresses are shown
 The industrial and agricultural high SCnOOl dI IllneVllle ndS sent some tempt ing looking pastry from their cooking classes and also some practical illus trations regarding foodstuffs
 It was a surprise to find that the school for the blind is represented. Their booth contains photographs of the students at work in different de- partments, samples of some of their work showing how delft their fingers are. With these are sheets of reading matter with the words pricked by the students and prepared for reading by touch.
 From Moudville are samples of stem cilling and rug weaving.
 Friday afternoon a group of Jeffer- son county girls were demonstrating work they had learned in cooking classes. The girls seemed quite at ease and many were stopping to see their work.
 On the second floor of the armory and in a room adjoining is work from the negro schools This is really eX- cellent and has attracted favorable at- tention and comment.
 Macon county's exhibit includes, of course, the Tuskegee school
 From the rural negro schools of that county is excellent work in charge of Sara l.. Woodall, who supervises un- der the auspices of the Tuskegee de- partment From the Tusk egee school Is some harness and also a section of the