The Twin City star. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1910-19??, 1915-05-08
HAMPTON HOLDS
BIC CELEBRATION
Graduation Exercises Marked
by Many Fine Features.
STUDENTS HAVE MADE GOOD
Year at Famous Southern School
closss With Observance Of Forty
seventh Anniversary - Members Of
Graduating cIass Delight Visitors
With Practical Addresses.

Graduating CIass Delight Visitors
With Practical Addresses.
Hampton, Va.-Hampton institute Is
indeed an industrial village-a place
whsre colored 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
fact that Hampton continues to offer
Negro and Indian youth rare opportu-
mites for training In schoolteaching,
farming, homemaking. 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 correct
inferences.
PrattIs Uses ssarohIisht In Dairy.
Glad In an immaculate white suit, as
when at his daily tasks In the school
dairy, Percival L. Prattis Of Philadel-
phia, gave a practical test Of whole,
skim milk and cream with the Babcock
tester. Prattis began his test, under
the title Of "A Searchlight In the Dali
ry," by saying, Laura Rose claims that
the Babcock tester Is like a mighty
searchlight thrown on the dairy indus
try.
With impartial accuracy it reveals
the profitable and improbable cows. 1t
condemns or praises the work Of the
separator. 1t reveals the loss Of fat in
whey and buttermilk, and 1t puts
check on dishonesty by having milk
and cream sold on the value Of their
fat content No dairyman or farmer
should 10 without one."
How to Know Fabrics Worth Buying.
Melissa T. Preston Of Spartanburg,
8. c., who has completed the home
economics and academic normal
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 for materials-mi-
croscopic, physical and chemical-show-
ing the fbers under the microscope and
using a chart for her explanation.
One had but to listen to Melvin T.
Wildly Of Avalon, Va. to realize that
"Horseshoes" may be very interest
ing subject and one thoroughly under
stood by the speaker. According to
Wildly, there are more than hundred
different kinds Of shoes, each to ill
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 kIrnbo Returned TO Hampton
Fred g. Kimbo Of Eastman, Va, se-
cured his trade certificate as an up
holsterer in 1900. After teaching some
months Kimbo returned to Hampton
institute this year to finish his academ-
10 course. In telling why Came to
Hampton" Kimbo gave the credit for
hts decision to a 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 Montion, Yaqui Indi-
an from El 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 men,
ories 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-
mafning 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
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