Evening star., 1915-11-26
COL0RED SCHOOLS
SHOW HAND|WORK
Exhibit Being Made by Boys
and Girls at the Miner
Normal.
ARTICLES ON DISPLAY
ARE USEFUL OBJECTS
Congress Will Be Asked for Appro-
priation to Extend and Main
tain the Work.

Persons interested in the education
an opportunity this week to see
quadrupleX exhibit showing what is be-
ing done here in the way of training
colored boys and girls. The fourfold
exhibit is at the Miner Normal School,
Georgia avenue and Euclid street
northwest. The greater portion of 1t Is
work done on the school Fairgrounds
during the summer: added to this are
models showing dairy, water supply,
housekeeping and other methods, sani
tary and insanitary. The remaining
two phases are in one sense not an ex-
hibit Of formal nature. being only the
regular arrangement of material for
study by students at the normal school
and including the courses in domestic
and other sciences. such as botany,
zoology and psychology.
Interested persons will be made well
come at the school and shown the ex-
hibits and school equipment 1t is plan
ned to have the specimens of all char
acters remain on view for about a
week longer.
"Service" Is the Motto.
No group of the exhibit is more in
teresting, probably, than the display
of playground work. This represents
all of the industrial activities of the
five colored school grounds under Miss
Anita ]. Turner. Service" is the motto
for all work turned out - that is, it
must be OF character and structure
that allows its use.
For instance, on display are all sorts
OF baskets, well made and attra ctive-
" colored; pocketbooks, crocheted
sacks and bootees, aprons. little dresses,
collars, doilies, hats, napkin rings and
hammocks. Several girls attending the
play centers brought the1 dolls and
dressed them. Play aprons fer children
were made by the youngsters and dec
GRATED with subjects dear to the hearts
of little ones-the three bears, the COW
that jumped over the moon. rabbits
birds, camels, elephants and Mother
Goose.
One especially attractive display is
for table use. 1t includes a centerpiece
adapted for the joint use of flowers and
fruit; doiiies. reed napkin rings and
coasters.
Because of the lack of money for ma
terial. work of this sort is limited 1t
is hoped this year that Congress will
appropriate sum for carrying it on, SO
that the maintenance money no longer
will have to be raised through enter
tainnents and other similar means
Sanitation Exhibit,
How flies and mosquitoes carry dis
ease is one of the phases treated in
the exhibit on hygiene and santa ton.
The models in this were made by
junior students of the school, and will
be used In instructing grade children
as to the methods of keeping well.
Right and wrong kind Of dairtes,
right and wrong methods Of supplying
houses with drinking water, as we'll as
a model of the Districts water supply
plant; right and wrong methods of
yentilating houses; proper methods of
disposing of garbage and trash, and
how children may aid In keeping COM
munities in which they live clean and
healthful are included among the mod
els displayed
One of the points of interest about
this part of the quadruplex exhibit is
that the cost of the material used was
but Slight Old boxes. pasteboard, clay
and illustrations cut from magazines
were all used to good purpose Miss
Jessie Wormley of the normal faculty.
directed the students
Domestic Science Section.
Students taking the domestic science
course under Miss Helen Irving have
compiled exhibits showing the various
uses to which cotton is put, as well
as its by-products. From the raw
material to various finished products.
is shown through actual material and
pictures, not only of cotton, but also
OF linen, wool, hemp, ramie, jute and
silk.
So far as is possible material and
information furnished by the United
states government is used The stu
dents made crayon pictures, showing
various nutritive materials and units
contained in the ordinary foods.
some OF the most modern pieces of
apparatus are on display in the labor
atories under Charles NJ. Thomas. who
has charge of the sciences in tie
school. The equipment for psychology
tests is up to the minute" and serves
a double purpose--for instructing the
embryo teachers in psychology and
how they can best teach those who
come under them, and for carrying on
psychological experiments, particular
ly with defective children
Although the material used in the
science department is always out, be-
ing in constant use, 1t is attracting
wider attention now than ordinarily
IN connection with the other exhibits
Teachers attending various institutes
recently have inspected IL, and have it's
uses explained to them by Mr.. Thomas.