The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-04-30
Old and Delightful Custom to
Be Revived.
And 1t Beats Mexican War
News by q Mile.
TO CROWN QUEEN OF THE MAY
Wake Me Early, Mother Dear,
for / Am 1t.
School Children to Wind Rib.
bOns Around May Pole.

Little girls in cross-stitched dresses
and little boys in stiff. starched waists
are planning for May Day fetes. dances
about be-ribboned poles, and folk drills
in costume. While Washburn co-eds
trip aesthetically about ''ye college
greene" their younger sisters and
brothers will recite Eugene Fields
Picnic Time" and Tennyson's Queen
o. the May" Each school in the city
has been given by the board OF educa-
ton a particular date to set aside Tor
an exhibit and special entertainment.
All the grade school children are en-
Enthusiastically laying plans for the last
festival before the closing exercises in
June. The artists are painting land
scapes and seascapes. hoping for places
of honor in the exhibit of watercolor
work. The youngsters in the manual
training departments are buSily manu-
featuring magazine racks or Mission
chairs. The prettiest little girls. hav-
ing besought their mothers for new
frocks, are practicing new steps and
learning to weave about a May pole.
The boys who have decided to speak
pieces are murmuring:
It's spring again. and in my soul feel
the thrillin' Joy
What's sure to come this time O. year
to every little boy
Riddles are spelling out in the read
Its spring again, spring again. spring
again,
I know it, / know it, I know it
Leaf again, life again, love again.
Yes, my wild little poet"
Clay school is to have a real May
fete-on the first of May. Georgia
Hodges, 1.-The first little girl in the
state is to have a part in the festival.
Governor Hodges will be present, and
address the teachers and pupils. A big
banner will he raised on the new flag
pole presented by the board of educa-
ton. A spring fete, with a detailed
program, has been prepared. The gov
ernor is going to leave his ONCE at the
state house, and watch the perform
ance which the children have been pre-
pairing for weeks.
A spring fete, with a detailed pro-
gram, has been prepared at Central
Park school, to celebrate tomorrow.
The eighth grade will sing a spring
song and a May song will be rendered
by the fourth grade. Heralds will en-
ter. trumpteing as the queens process
sion appears. The crowning will be
celebrated with due revelry. A Japa-
nese drill will be given by the third
grade girls, following a singing game
by the girls of the fourth grade. The
kindergarten kiddies will play a May
basket game, and the first grade give
two German drills. The second grade
have prepared an English and Swedish
singing game. The May pole dance will
be given by the fourth grade girls.
Then the recessional will be sounded.
A ribbon drill will be the feature Of
the Polk school entertainment, set for
May Is. Potwin school celebrates on
May with an exhibit, folk dances, and
May pole drill. Every school in the
city Is planning festivities on it's es-
pecial date. and the children are show
ing unusual interest in the preparations
and plans.
Mckinley School.
The Mckinley school will have a
May-day pageant tomorrow afternoon.
FOLK dances and athletic contests will
be held. The Monroe school basket
ball relay team will play the Mckinley
school team. A May pole has been
erected and general good time is
eXneCted