The Washington times., 1915-08-10
PLAYGROUND EXHIBIT
=. IN SCHOOLS TODAY
Products Of Harnessed Energies
of Hundreds Of Children Are
Being Shown.

Remember the days when Dick. aged
ten, used to tear down FENCES ana
literally raise the roof off the house IN
his effort to give vent to his desire to
do something in the summer? And
Aas sister used to be about as de-
Structive in her unguided efforts at
playing at housekeeping"
Dick and Nancy are given something
to do now. More than a dozen school
Fairgrounds this week are showing
thousands Of articles. the products Of
the harnessed energies Of hundreds OF
children who have been kept of the
street
They liked It, too. Around every ex-
hibit in the school Fairgrounds today
stood groups Of children. disconsolate
because their playtime Ia ended for the
summer on these grounds After this
week they will carry home the en-
chetting embroidery. basketry. weaving.
and dresses they have made on the
grounds this season.
Parents Looking At Work.
But all this week week the parents
are looking over the work. Beginning
today school officials. including MEM
bers of the Board Of Education. are to
make inspection tours Of the grounds;
exhibit at the Grover Cleveland School
will be lawn fete given by mothers
Of the neighborhood. Throughout the
evening the school orchestra, the only
grade school orchestra in the city. will
play. One Of the features OF the work
at this school are the garments dyed,
as well as made. by the pupils. The dye
Ing work was taken up there. for the
cess.
There Is no cnt ant dried program
about the work done on the school play
grounds. Each one Is n law unto itself.
so far as the things made are concern
ed. On some grounds the boys prefer
carpentry work, on others they take
better to metal work! Basket making
10 popular among both boys and girls
on nearly all the grounds.
On some Of the grounds embroidery
has been developed to the stage OF a
fine art by the girls. Into pillow cases
and other articles nursery rhymes nave
been worked.
There was serious business on some
during the play hours more than 2OO
children who had failed to pass in the
winter gathered to make 10 back WORK.
About $50 of these are expected to pass
examinations and go on with their
classes as the result of their extra sum
mer effort.
Scenes of Exhibits.
Schools at which the exhibits are to
be seen this week include: White-Polk.
Seventh and p streets: Arthur. Arthur
place northwest: Bowen. Third and X
streets southwest: Bryan, Thirteenth
and b streets southeast; Congress
Heights. at Congress Heights; Chevy
Chase. at Chevy Chase: Grover Cleve-
land. Eighth and T streets northwest;
Ketcham. Fifteenth and L streets SOUTH
east: Jefferson. Sixth anf D streets
southwest: Ludlow, sixth and g
streets northeast: Morgan. between
Champlain and Eighteenth streets north.
west: Monroe. Columbia road, between
Georgia and Sherman. avenues. Pet
worth. Georgia avenue and Shepherd
street: Powell. school street. near Park
road; Wallach. Seventh street and Penn
sylvania avenue southeast. -
Colored-Birney Nichols avenue. Hills
dale: Langston, P street between North
Capitol and First streets northwest: Nc
gruder. NJ street. between Sixteenth
and Seventeenth streots northwest: Gid
dings, G street. between Third and
Fourth streets southeast. and Phillips.
Twenty-eighth and n streets northwest