The Denver star., 1915-05-22
Graduation Exercises Marked
by Many Fine Features.
STUDENTS HAVE MADE GOOD
Year at Famous Southern School
seventh Anniversary = Members Of
Graduating Class Delight Visitors
With Practical Addresses.

Hampton. va.-HamptOn institute is
indeed an Industrial village-a place
where co.ored boys and girls. together
with their red brothers and sisters. are
trained for life Itself The forty
seventh anniversary exercises, held the
latter part of April. make clear the
fuct that Hampton continues to oheI
Negro and Indian youth rare opportu-
mites for training in schoolteachinS.
farming, homemakins. the common
trades and in music.
Members of the Hampton graduating
class demonstrated clearly to the hun
dreds of visitors from the north and
the south just how Hampton takes un
trained material and within few
years sends out for service to the com
munity young men and women who
can not only work well with their
hands, but who can also observe close
ly. record accurately and draw correc,
differences.
Prattis Uses Searchiisht In Dairy.
Clad in an immaculate white suit. as
when at his daily tasks in the school
dairy. Percivai l.. Prattis of Philadel-
phiu. gave II practical test of whole.
skim milk and cream with the Babcock
tester. Prattis began his test under
the title of "A Searchlight In The Dai-
ry," by saying. Laura Rose claims that
the BabcOck tester is like IL mighty
searchlight thrown on the dairy indus
try.
With impartial accuracy 1t reveals
the profitable and Improbable cows. 1t
condemns or praises the work OF the
separator. 1t reveals the loss OF fat iu
whey and buttermilk. and ii puts
check on dishonesty by having milk
and cream sold on the value of their
fat content. No dairyman or farmer
should be without one"
How to Know Fabrics Worth Buying.
Melissa L. Preston Of SpartanburS.
S. c.. who has completed the home
economies and academic norma!
courses. talked on the subject of Fab
RIGS Worth Buying' and explained one
way In which Hampton prepares her
daughters to buy intelligently. She
spoke of three tests Tor materials-mi-
croscopic, physical and chemical-show-
ing the fibers under the microscope and
using chart for her explanation.
One had but to listen to Melvin Il.
Wildly OF Avalon. Va, to realize that
"Horseshoes" may be n very Interest
ing subject and one thoroughly under
stood by the speaker. According to
Wildly, shere are more than hundred
different kinds OF shoes. each to fill
some need or correct some fault Of the
different horses, and he explained In
detail, with many illustrations, the
shoes most commonly used. confirming
the statement which has been made
that every boy who takes the trade at
Hampton is taught to do his horseshoe
ing with due regard to the animals
needs.
Why Fred kir1bo Returned to Hampton
Fred C. Kimbo Of Eastman, Va. ne
cured his trade certificate as an up
holsterer in 1909. After teaching some
months KimbO returned to Hampton
Institute this year to finish his acndem-
ic course. In telling why l Came to
Hampton" Kimbo gave the credit for
his decision to Hampton graduate
who taught school In his community.
farming during the vacation months.
and by his sincerity OF purpose and
good example gaining the confidence
and respect of both white and cOlored
people.
Miss Carmen Mention, n Yaqui 1ndi-
an from Ell Paso, Tex, one Of the
group OF Indians who remained to
work her way through school when
the government withdrew Its appropri-
alton. related the Memories Of MY
Childhood" saying, "My earliest mem
cries of home are those Of the days
when I was seven years old and tend
ed sheep and goats for my mother"
She told how she got up at sunrise.
prepared her lunch Of "mOcasiunie." or
dried meat and piece Of bread, took
the sheep and goats to pasture, re-
naming with them all day. amusing
herself by making pottery dishes for
her dolls. In May came the shearing
Of the sheep. large shears being used
for the purpose. Then came the wash
ing of the wool, the carding. conbing
and dyeing with Indian dyes mnde of
roots. herbs and bark Of trees and final
ly spinning into yarn for various weav-
ing purposes. During the long winter
months she helped her mother with
the weaving. the Pueblo women weav-
ing blankets similar to those OF the
NAVAJO except that the design is al
ways the emblem OF their tribe.
Good Influence Of the Calhoun School.
Robert j. Peagler described the be
ginning and the work of the Calhoun
colored school. from which lie graduat-
ed i'm 1911. The Calhoun school was
started in 1892 by two white ladIes
who Ind been tenchers at Hampton In
stitute. They gained the confidence OF
both the colored and white people. md
today the Calhoun school stands. ns II
were. q city on hill that cannot be