Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1916-05-11

turned over to the girls. Clad in neat MILDLY
blouses and comfortable boomers, several hun
dred girls and older women, too, are taught grace
ful folk dances, games and drills. But that isn't
al-the girls are taught modern dances as well.
To the accompaniment Of music and under the d.
%rections of a skilled teacher of dancing, the girls
are taught the one-step, the fox-trot and other
modern ballroom dances.
The girls have a chance to practice the dances,
for one night each week there is a big dance at
Lane, which hundreds Of students attend. The
dances are under the supervision Of principal and
teachers, and these social evenings do much to-
ward strengthening Lanes school spirit. Lane Is
a real social center.
They Learn to Sew.
Dancing is not the only thing offered to girls at
the nightschool. There are classes in hand and
machine sewing, in the use Of patterns and in fit
ting and designing. Young women make dresses.
suits and party frocks, both for themselves and
others. They learn TO make hats, too, designing
the hat, making the frame, covering it and trim
ming the hat.
The Lane publications are things of which both
students and faculty are proud, for the Lane Tech
Daily Ia the only daily newspaper in the United
States that is both published and printed by stu.
dents Of a high school. Members of the journal.
ism class write the news for the daily, others edit
it, still others set type, make up the paper and run
the presses. The Daily keeps the pupils posted
on all school news. The pupils Of the evening
school issue an eight-page weekly paper, the Lane
Tech News. Any pupil at Lane may write for the
News or the Daily.
For pupils with literary ambitions, there is the
Lane Tech Prep, a monthly magazine, full of short
stories, essays and even p~laylets.
For the Backward Boys.
Lanes pre-vocational department is one of its
most successful features. In every city, there are
boys Of fifteen, sixteen or seventeen, who, because
of sickness, financial conditions or change of resi-
dence, have been backward in their classes. Usu-
ally these boys drop out of school and go to work,
poorly prepared to enter into competition with
other boys. The pre-vocational department is
especially for the boys who are delinquent in the
grade schools. 1t gives the motor type" Of boy an
opportunity to make up his work. Instead of be-
ing in a grade school among the little fellows,
among whom he feels ashamed, he Is part of q big
high school with boys his own age. His interest
is awakened by being allowed to do things-he is
taught technical shop work and usually leaves
school capable of earning an honorable livelihood.
The laboratories at Lane are well equipped.
There are three, the biological, physical and chem
icaL Aquariums, with large collections of fish,
frogs, snails and turtles interest some students.
There is a wireless telegraph outfit, electric light
testing machines, an X-ray outfit, a model dynamo
and motors. Boys who come to Lane without
terest and develop them.
interesting Shop Work.
The shops at Lane have proved interesting to
educators all over the world. In the wood shops
there are examples of the work of the students;