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best taught after having the boys
make a wonderful large dollhouse.
which the girls furnished with paste
board furniture in most tasteful and
only copper work Is done. and the ex-
hlbits show splendid understanding OF
the work.
As each child is a separate and dts
tinct problem. many times II requires
long and close study to determine Just
what Is the best course to pursue with
him. One nervous. high-tempered boy.
whose whole progress through the
grades to the sixth had been one long
nightmare to the teachers. was abso-
lutely reformed after a year in one OF
the ungraded schools. The teacher dis
covered that he liked to whistle and
when she saw f1t Of temper or habit
ual willfulness coming on. she put him
ling record on the phonograph and
urged him to whistle with 1t to show
her he could keep up with II. He 10
now in one Of the high schools.
Another, an atypical child, was . pug
zle for a year. Nothing could break hia
sullen inactivity. Finally the teacher
discovered that he liked to drive nails
He was taken down to the shop and nj.
tent. He evidently hammered all OF the
sullenness out of his system, for he
soon became interested in the work Of
the shop and now does fine work.
No story OF the special schools would
be complete without mention OF the
teachers, all of whom have prepared
for this work by university and In
stitutional training. w. B. Patterson.
supervisor OF the fourth division. 10 In
charge Of the special schools and has
given years of study not only to the
methods Of instruction, but to the
choice of teachers, for this Is the most
vital part. Teachers of the atypical
schools Aare: Mrs. s. r. johnson and
Miss A. Z. Sullivan OF the Morse: Misses
NJ M. Greenwood and M. L. Peabody. At
25 5th street southeast: Mrs. Clara Y.
Mace and Miss Ruth Patterson. at l3S2
Maryland avenue northeast: Mrs. M.
G. Slarrow and Miss A. NJ Coughlin. at
$40 eth street southwest; Miss M. n.
Stewart and Mrs. A. r. Corder. at 1897
$50 street. Georgetown. and Miss II.
w. Luhn Of the Tenleytown class.
There are still fewer who teach the
ungraded classes: Mrs. NJ. NJ. Bridgss
and Mrs. G. b. Wilder. at the Gales:
Misses NJ. A. Robey and F. E. Thomp-
son, at the Morse; Mrs. L. F. Adams
and Miss L. X. Pollock. Curtis.
These teachers devote their entire
time to the classes. but they are aided
by a half a dozen teachers in special
subjects who visit them with about
the same regularity.
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the little girls in housekeeping duties.
There they have a big doll named
Billy" who is regularly carried into
the little restroom and undressed and
put to bed The children have by this
means learned to care for younger
children and also a great deal about
the clothing they should wear, how
the garments are put on, etc.
The most novel feature of the schools
is that the children are encouraged to
do what they like. In one. a class Of
six boys. in bibbed aprons. were busily
making gingerbread. They had asked
class in the same school were crochet
ing. One of their number, a tall chap
of nineteen. was happily knitting
through spool. His mental age
matches that of a kindergarten and
he will never go beyond it. He loves
to run the carpet loom. is athletic, pos
sesses the innate politeness of the born
gentleman and is in perfect health. He
couid. no doubt do good outdoor work
on farm or garden with the direction
OF some one to keep him reminded OF
his task. He has already been in the
school half dozen years.
At Miss Greenwood's school there are
also two girls. twelve and thirteen
years of age. who have only begun to
articulate words. The endless patience,
Shoi 70 anu encouragement OF the
teacher has at last broken this BIRTH
inhicted silence. and it is believed that
they will eventually be able to make
themselves understood
At 1922 Maryland avenue northeas st.
where Mrs. Mace is in charge. are the
most cheerful classes imaginable. His.
tory is taught in a fascinating manner
The colony of Plymouth was spread
before the eyes in the sandbox, while
an Indian village was being dismantled
after a lesson on Indians. The chill
dren made the wfgwams, canoes, toma-
hawks, etc, from co1ored paper, and
fierce warpainted savages grew in
hordes under nimble fingers and scis-
sors
The other half of the class shipped
and sewed carpet rags. Here, as is the
plan in all of the schools. handwork
occupies the greater part of the time,
but arithmetic. spelling, reading, his
tory, geography and penmanship are
worked in with it. Baskets occupied
the shelf room; weird and artistic
drawings and water color work filled
the wall spaces. The sixteen-table and
several time-killing long-division ex-
amples sprawled their weary way
across the blackboard. Presently an
odor of cooking forced it's appetizing
way from the rear regions of the house
and Immediately the children were
electrified into activity. for luncheon
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drawer filled with toy money from
cent up to 50 cents.
Various shopping trips for groceries
is a daily performance, and all varis-
tions are tried. Pupils are sent with
a quarter or 50 cents to buy two or
three articles. and they must bring
back the right change. This ie often
as prodigious a task to the storekeeptr
as II IL to the customer.
No two of these schools are exactly
alike. each has some feature not to be
duplicated in the others. for the good
reason that every child is a distinct
problem. At $40 6th street southwest
manual training seems to have Its
most perfect expression, and domestic
science, or rather home keeping, was
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STERLING FanWoman Sends Money
and Hospital Necessities Name FierOne Hero and Two erons Unusual
Tae-A France Thanks Man for His They Were Given by Another

delicious original of "The Girl With
the Fan" No one begrudged 1T to
her. Now, for the true model of the
painting
Abel Faivre, though young. was a
disabused and cynical man.
After his success as a painter he be-
came a Paris figure of the great life"
of before the war, but he had begun
in Montmartre. where he knew hard
days and grew ferocious.
In that time, when but an ill-paid
cartoonist doing his worst, his hand
against all men, he knew bud grown
up In Montnartre toll and privation.
Vaguely, she was his model, very
he thought SO; delicate. intelligent. as
piring. dreaming, of ethereal. housed
Paris charm. And very beautiful, alas!
And Abel Faivre made idle sketches
of her. both in black k-and white and
color. He was not painter. They
were happy trifies-admired by the
painter boys, their comrades-done for
love Of art. in happy moments
Faivre knew her parents. They were
poor folks in the same house.
Certainly. the painter boys protected
her. but how could they be always on
the lookout? Who can know what's
in girls head? One day Valentine
just disappeared.
sponsible. "The talk in our studios
upset her. he said to the comrades.
Nonsense they replied. You are
a cheyalier without reproach!"
The chevalier attempted to forget It.
He did more and more atrocious car
toons against well-to-do and happy
people. So. he had his work, his large
and bitter gall. his Montmartre streets
to pace in moody silence. So. when he
was cured OF the illusion, quite cured,
look you, Of the haunting memories.
he got out those sketches. And. shut
ting himself in the studio for eight
days. he produced, tears in his eyes.
hate in his heart. the masterpiece OF
''The Girl with the Fam he. Abel
Faivre, the Montmartre caricaturist.
He sent it to the salon, where 1t
made sensation, The government
laid hands on it at high price, He
found himself famous; his cartoons
fetched large sums. SO: had he not
seeking, he might have been called Q
happy youth. Luck came too late!"
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are used to place the child where he be-
longs. Most of these are. Of course.
directed or carried out by the school
physician or the specialists who have
special clinics for testing lungs, eyes,
ears and teeth. The child Is weighed
and measured, standing and sitting: the
grip power of both right and left hands
are gauged and then the Binet test 10
given. The latter test Is so complete
and far reaching in its probe Of the in
tellect's past and present scope that
there is little left to discover when 1t
is completed and it's result added to
those of the other tests.
If any minor operation is advisable
the school nurse follows up the report
of the doctor and seeks the co-opera-
tion of the parents, either in getting
them to have the surgical work done
or else in giving their consent and ac-
companying the nurse with the child
to the hospital.
In the Binet test, as used in judging
atypical children. normal three-year-
old should be able to repeat its own
name, point. when asked, to its nose.
eyes and mouth; repeat words in pairs
after the questioner and name the sim
pie objects in a group of pictures.
When six. eight. nine year old or
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was at hand. Books. rags, scissors,
sand sifters and all sorts of parapher-
MALTA was hastily bundled into order.
Luncheons are served hot and placed
within the reach of every child who
does not go home for his midday meal.
1t Is one of the greatest factors in the
improvement these schools produce in
the children who are fortunate enough
to have their training. Five cents is
the only charge here. as in all Of the
other three school centers that have
hot luncheons, and for this sum the
child may supplement what he brings
from home or have a satisfying nour-
ishing meal of hot soups, stews. sand
witches. custards. puddings, cocoa, milk.
or chocolate and beans. potatoes and
fruit.
A simple. wholesome menu is worked
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out for each day. The children who
bring little or nothing are cajoled
into eating. though 1t does not often
with their dainty appointments mako
a strong appeal This extra expense is
borne by the teachers.
According TO the consensus Of opinion
Of all of the teachers and many other
experts in child study, the lack OF
properly nourishinE food, regularly
given. is responsible for the largest
part of the lack of development in
children Repeatedly the teachers seek
to remedy this by seeking to impress
upon the parents that their children
must be better fed. to little or no pur-
pose. The teachers fnd pupils who
are sent to school after a breakfast OF
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Schools That Make Specially of Teaching II

a MONG all of Washington's
M varied institutions. the most
IN remarkable are the special
q a schools whose controlling prin-
ciple Is to promote the happiness Of
their pupils.
Today the traditional three RS"
form but a small part Of the school
ing. since boys and girls are studying
practically every science, ism" and
''ology" in the vast curriculum OF the
worlds learning. But to go to school
to learn happiness is a decidedly mod
ern innovation in schoolroom ethics.
Modern beyond dispute it is. too, since
this little group Of eight schools has
been established for only about seven
years Ambitious. their object. beyond
the dreams of the most visionary of
optimists. would be the first conclusion
of cynics who believe that happiness.
real and lasting. is as elusive as the
chimerical pot of gold at the foot Of
the rainbow.
But the most rabid misanthrope must
stand convinced after a trip to one of
these schools. and be converted. after
tour of all of them, for these are spe-
cial schools for special pupils, with
special teachers in charge. and the
WOrk tney 90 iS especially dudptcu "
the individual needs of the children.
Find out what the child wants to do
and make him happy" is the slogan
of these schools, the tune to which all
of their work and study is done, and
the atmosphere of the attractive class
rooms and shops is charged with its
toxic current.
These are all public schools, and
their courses of study have been devised
to fit the needs of boys and girls in the
various grades who have either fallen
behind their classes and failed to catch
up, from illness, absence and other
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hailed a master. The new painters
name Is Abel Faivre."
1t took Paris a month to realize that
the two Abel Faivres could be one and
his monsters of ugliness and the new
painter with his type Of utter lowell
ness at once called popularity The
Girl With the Fan"
The French government bought it for
the Luxembourg; and now you know,
story of the war. Of The Girl With
the Fan"-the false one first
1t was in the first year Of the paint
ing's celebrity.
At the Grand Cafe. along the Boule-
ward des Capucines. the waiter.
Adolphe, whispered to a man of no
Importance:
There's an interesting number on the
terrace"
Adolphe knows an interesting num-
Der. In those old days. it was a
Partisan way to rubber and converse.
SO the client sauntered to the sidewalk.
where four rows of chairs and tables
la the awnings shade compose the
terrace"
once he was struck by something curl
ously known to him In her eyes. AS
soon as good manners would permit.
he said to her:
"I know who you are. You sat for
Abel Faivre, in The Girl with the
Fan"
She opened mouth and eyes in mild
astonishment and interest. Then she
grew troubled, murmuring:
why do you all ask me that ques-
tion? I have no fan. My name is not
Faivre. but Durand, and l am just arr
rived from Fouilly."
All, me, though slack of information,
she was a pretty woman So, the man
Of no Importance. being idle. had grace
to conduct her to the Luxembourg. to
make her understand. 1t was amusing
to watch her before the painting.
All beautiful women know how they
look This little half-peasant saw at
with the painting Faivre has put
living Interrogation. found elsewhere
only. perhaps. in the immortal portrait
of all time. the "Joconde" of Leonardo
called the Mona Lisa. Alone. this alive
look disarms all criticism of Faivre's
masterpiece. And the girl had it. No
one could doubt. Here must be the
model.
She was impressed. So was the Lux
embourg crowd. People whispered
There she is. the model The girl was
impressed stronger. Like the young
man in the Scripture, she went away
pensive. What did she think? think
she thought: 81 am as pretty as the
painting. ! can go upon the stage"
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tea and bread. sardines and bread, a
banana or handful of cookies.
The atypical classes of the Morse
School have a regular grocery store
along one side of the big sunny room,
besides the carpet loom. the type
writer's. work benches, sand boxes and
other work devices. The store has
shelves stocked with a splendid line Of
goods. staple groceries, candies and
school supplies for the purpose of
teaching simple number work.
Here is to be seen coffee, tea, cocoa,
chocolate. sugar. oil. baking powder,
all of the cereals, all kinds of boxed
cakes and crackers, canned soups.
vegetables and fruits. all Of the penny
candies, pencils, crayons and little
tablets. The counter has a money
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only a year or year and a half.
They become interested in the diff
ferent kinds Of work. and after a time
in the coaching school. to which they
are sent as soon as they show evil
dence Of ability to get ahead, they are
returned to the grades. The coaching
school is much like the summer school.
where the pupil may take up lost
threads in the different studies of his
grade and go back to it and be able to
keep up and go ahead. The only one of
these in the city is at present located
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Schools Where Courses Devised
Il Grades Who Fallen Behind Their Glasses
spondd Usual School Children
TeNo AeSy
to andthe Lad Who Happiness Driving
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Special Correspoodcnee Of The Star.
PARIS, December 16. 1915.
~Ew. even in Paris. realize the vast
III work of war relief that is being
done by the so-called frivolous.
q by theatrical. music hall and
circus people, singers. painters and
bohemia ms.
Ten times a day a weeping. sinful
woman pours boz of precious oint-
ment at the Savior's feet.
Among the loving sinners are the
comic cartoon men Of the Society of
French Humorists. Poor soldiers
wives and mothers bless their picture
shows and exhibitions. They feed the
hungry. clothe the naked. visit the
sick. Prominent among them, truly.
10 Abel Faivre. the caricaturist.
Whereby hangs sweet and touching
tale. give 1t almost as fiction, or as
a joining of stories about two differ
ent sets of persons In one hero, be-
cause they show the beautiful new
spirit Of France. Were 1t alone the
personal adventure of Abel Faivre. it's
telling might involve unwarrantable
liberties. Such Is not the case. 1t is
not all Abel Faivre. 1t is distinctly
composite. ! hope by the confusion
that no indiscretion will be done to
him or to innocent third parties. SO.
now for the story. all composite.
All france rings with a certain paint
ers name-and that Is the trouble. IL
10 not alone his war cartoons but his
charities. They are too many. ] call
him Abel Faivre. He does what he
can; he is pot rich. and yet from every
side Acknowledgements flow in to Abel
Faivre-for good works which he has
not done. could not do.
has him saying. WHO gives all this
money in my name?"
The war charities attributed to him
in six months past might well foot up
q million Why should some unknown
party in the shadow diligently give a
fortune and put all the credit Of it
supposed TO be q bitter. melancholy
man. Before the war he was famous
for his ferocious pictorial attacks on
the French middle classes.
Who? Why? How explain the mys-
terry?
Years ago Abel Faivre began by
mystifying Paris.
None knew him as q painter. His
powerful caYicatures were collected IN
two volumes. Then. suddenly, in the
New Salon appeared q surprising mod
ern painting Of such charm Of draw =
ing. such freshness In coloring, such
glancing st the painters name, they
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seldom succeed on the stage. The same
is true Of educated. What strange wis.,
dom kept the lonely little beauty, at
last, from that hateful danger?
Six months later, at the then extreme
ly fashionable Palais de Glace. at the
hour of society, the man Of the Grand
Cafe saw her skating. She was dress
ed to perfection. And the change ex,
acquired a mincing grace and not
little confidence. "She has mounted a
grade he thought. Doubtless. the
management pays her TO skate. Shall
] say good day to her? Allons-y. she
can't be quite a Bnob yet.
She had learned to wear clothes. A
great firm Of Paris paid her. She must
show. continually. in smart places. and
Often, ! think, she was hungry. but
she looked rich. To reward her con-
ndence, the man of no importance gave
her hint.
Again he saw the look Of cogitation
on her face, as when she realized that
she looked like the painting. 1t was a
girl thinking slowly-but she gets
there. Here is the proof.
Six months more passed. The man
saw her seated. with much dignity. in
a landau, at the bewitching hour Of
early twilight when the Avenue des
Acacias in the Bois Is fairyland. All
Paris saw her and approved her. And
Also, hardly advancing the mode
which her heavy coiffure was to in
fuence, she wore the black lace Char
lotte Of the painting. with it's nodding
plumes and gorgeous streamer. The
color scheme was Faivre's. Poise OF
the head. poise Of the fan. all was exact
She was 1.-THE Girl With the Fan Of
Abel Faivre" And a Partisan who
knows 1t all said to the man of the
Grand Cafe:
you are the only one in Paris who
does not know that girl. She is the
model of Faivre's painting in the Lux
embourg. The snobs are wild about
her. A painting countess IL doing her
Portrait!
year passed. She was at Biarritz.
They told of her wonderful marriage.
They told Of her suite at the Hotel du
Palais. of her Paris mansion, of her
husbands yacht with cruising parties
of ten guests of real society. Of her
artistic taste. of her collections, Of her
jewels. Nothing was too good for the
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he chuckled mirthlessly. He knew II
now-he thought too much OF Valen'
tine.
+ 4
So, instead of taking pleasure, he
fed the snobs and walked the streets
Doing what? Just looking for face.
She's not here" he sighed, with re-
lief, at last. Lets look in higher
places"
1t did not take long. He went among
the snobs. At once, from all sides, he
heard of his model.
YES, of course, your model, the girl
with. the fam Where? Everywhere, at
the Ritz tea, the Bois. the races and
the exhibition-in particular, the Bois
at $50"
Feverishly, the negligent bohemian
dressed up, and sailed out, at $50. to
drive through the acacias in an open
club cab. Up and down the woodland
avenue he rode. He mingled in the
acacia blossoms. gilded in the yellow
twilight. he was watching. waiting.
She came, the pet of Paris. THE Girl
with the Fan"
There! There she is. your model
Abel glared at the girl.
OF course. she did not know him.
And. of course. he did not know her.
"Valentine-that Woman! Name of
a little goodman! Now they can fire
the cannon"
Abel Faivre began his search anew.
He searched all the sweet and laugh
ing Paris of before the wan
He searched the smart pastry shops
where charming shoppers took their
tea. He searched the parks where
blooming mammas read their book.
nurse promenading baby. He searched
the suburbs, Neuilly and Auteuil, where
happy couples hid their JOY. He
searched, always. in vain.
He searched Passy and its pensions,
Marbeuf and its furnished flats. He
searched the Paris banlieu, where
clerks live economically; among shop
girls at their noon hour; at the sortie
Of great factories in the evening. He
searched Boulevard and Latin Quar-
ter.
He searched always and found moth
ing.
Years passed.
Abel Faivre. French master consti-
painters. president Of juries. pundft
grave and weighty, but, always. or
uncertain and sarcastic humor, he
seemed negligent. embittered. He
painted little. Always. he did those
ferocious cartoons.
The war broke out.
Looking back, 1t seems almos,. nat.
ural that Abel Faivre. the supposed
cynic, should have turned Immediately
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Had she done so. this story would not
have been written. Uneducated girls
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statistics about schools. But in Alaska the bureau
has direct charge of educating the children.
One of the results is the wainwright School
Republic" where Eskimo boys and girls learn how
to become American citizens. Any pupil able to
read in the first reader was eligible for member
ship; the Undergraduates were considered as wards.
The officers were president, mayor and judge,
each with term of one month. The president
presided over the council at its regular meetings,
held each Friday afternoon. AT these meetings
bills were introduced discussed and voted upon
and citizens were elected to perform such duties as
became necessary More than 80 laws were
enacted by the children during the school term.
What do you suppose the first law was'
"No citizen shall speak Eskimo in the school,
roomr'
AS II was the special aim of the school term
to teach English this law helped the teachers very
much. There were also laws providing that no
"ctizen" should whisper, look behind in school
time, be noisy rude, or wear his skin parka Tor
haD in the Sehooroom. There were fines for
dirty faces and hands.
Citizens" were elected TO perform school,
room duties; fireman to keep the room COM
Portable and to bank the fire for the night; lamp
lighter to care for eight lampS-not small task
during the long months of twilight in the Arctic
zone. There is floor sweeper, t2-year-old
police officer TO bring in the truants, an iceman
who brings ice for drinking purposes, a record
keeper to keep the records of attendance al school,
of game killed by the village hunters and OF the
weather.