Palisadian. [volume] (Cliffside Park, N.J.) 1906-current, 1915-06-26
Cifside School Exhibition
Crowning Success Of Year
Creditable Word By Children
Manual Training DiUisiOn Attracts Attention and
Praise for Instructor Burns Display of Work
Highly Commended by Parents- Palm Goes
to Department of Education

Friday, Saturday and Sunday last
were gala days in school land in
Cliffside. In school No. 3, Cliffside
had been assembled the products in
paper, cloth, basketry and joinery
from the hands of the borough's
children to make the years exhibit
ton of school work.
On the walls of the two main cor
ridors; in the manual training room
in the basement; and in some of the
largest school rooms were displayed
thousands Of articles of use and
adornment of the young peoples
diligence and skill.
On the walls of the large public
corridors were placed the different ex-
hlbltions on paper of class work from
the little kindergarten hands up to
that of the highest grades. In the
upper northwest class room was the
wholly attractive exhibit in useful
and fancy articles of the classes under
Miss O'Brien, of Grantwood school.
Across the hall, in the still larger
northeast class room was hung and
spread a bewildering and at the same
time attractive display of household
articles from the loom; the crochet
needle and the ordinary needle. Elk
amples of hand stitching in all its
useful stages; patching; buttonhol-
holing and button sewing; baskets in
the prettiest of designs and forms;
useful clothing, and dainty frocks-
enough, almost, to out-Macy Mays.
OH tii,-- 4sasisz were some beautiful ex-
amples of richly tinted rag rugs,
school-made.
The corridor walls contained some
of the best examples of map work,
compositions, arithmetic, penmanship,
drawing and painting. The work of
Miss Collins, Miss Parker, and Miss
Brown at the kindergarten school
was given a wall to itself. The little
drawings and scribblings made a
strong appeal, in their infantile at
tempts at self-eXpression.
OF all the noteworthy exhibits,
however, none received more delight
ed and unstinted praise than the adj
mlrable work in wood of some of the
older school boys. The exhibit was
under the head of manual training,
and was under the able direction of
Instructor Burns. The articles were
assembled in the board room, which
is just north of the main entrance.
and consisted of morris chairs, tables.
a handsome book case, and other fine
specimens of the boys craftsmanship.
The manual training shop in the
basement was the mecca for host
of visitors. Its long rows of work
benches, equipped with every con-
celvabIe tool and material for the
making of useful objects proved one
of the most popular and entertaining
features of the exhibition. The hand
loom from which the rag rugs were
made was a product of the manual
training department under the super
intendence of Mr.. Burns. The loom.
itself, was an important feature Of
the exhibition. 1t was learned that
one OF the handsomest rugs produced
from the loom by some of the older
scholars was to be presented by them
to Mr. Burns in return for his kind
ness in having the loom made.
The greatest praise is due to the
department of education, and espe-
cially to the teachers for the illumin-
ating display of school work. 1t should
be great source of pride and graft
tication to parents and other relatives
that the showing of the children's
last year of work has been so credit
able. From all appearances, it is
doubtful if the $4,000 expended on
the education of the LOO of the Dor
ough's children during the year could
have been better employed.