Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-01-28

WINDOW tnAk OHended by IT'S sIafk Cd
long, bad been. Changed to stained glass
and its casing was made in the shops.
Al the Froehel school by the way.
all the tables and chairs the cup
boards and cases, were made. by the
boys. A boy working in the shop gets
his time card and is paid 60 cents an
hour. At the end of the week, h he 4
given a check which he deposits in the
school bank and when he has saved
$50 he has made credit toward gradu.
! alton. M yft
A1oof DIGNITY of . Teller.
l went into the bank, which is run
by the pupils and one of the clerks,
boy Of about sixteen, showed me
around. He had all the aloof dignity
Of the teller. He unbent bit to tell
me things, but when l inadvertently
wQndered whether 1 could borrow ten
dollars or fifteen dollars he froze
again. l could monkey in the zoology
class, it appeared, but not in the bank
BY the way, there is q real zco al
the school, the tenderer members are
inside and the tougher ones outside.
Cy De Vry of the Lincoln park ZOO,
Chicago, has sent them a pair of hawks
and there are foxes and coyotes and
hens and pheaSants and groundhogs,
and there was bear. But he sickened
and was sent away. None of the ami
mails shows the slightest animosity to.
ward. the children. Both pupils and
animals have been trained to an un-
derstanding of each other. The boys
may go into the foxes cage and pet
them and the coyotes yowl jealousy.
"We teach no sex hygiene here"
said the zoology teacher, "but in oqur
classes the approac ching motherhood Of
guinea pig and the birth of baby rab-
bits, and 50 forth, are taken quite as
matter of course
I'd like to have fingered longer in
the ZOO, the inner one particularly,
where I became an interested pupil
myself. The teacher has 2 skunk
there, deodorized, and in process Of
tanning. She claims that skunks are
fast displacing the Angora cat as a pet,
and those who have tried them say
they are more playful than kittens.
Every teacher in the Gary schools is
q specialist. Glasses visit her room
for what she can particularly give
them. Thus their interest is stimlu'
lated by the expression Of a mind
skilled in one especial subject, instead
of dulled by the smattering out'and'
out driedness of the grade teachers
imperfect equipment.
Grown-ups Attend School.
o The question of lighting reminds
me of the evening classes. It is esti.
mated that some 10000 people are in
structed daily in Gary, for the schools
are open to men and women until nine
at night, for any line Of work they
choose to follow. In the art craft
room saw some of the silver work OF
q woman who intends making use OF
the teaching for a livelihood.
This interest of the parents is one
of the particularly wise points in the
wise administration of Mr.. Writ. In a
mill city such as Gary the children
frequently are taken out OF school at
fourteen and put to work. aa 81.
Getting the parents to come to
school is stimulating their interest in
keeping the children there. And as
far as the children's ;yolition is con.
cerned, they are not dashing for the
school exit by any means.
The Emerson school has about 800
pupils. With it's careful scattering of
class work and play time it could &C.
commodate more. The Froebel has
1900 day pupils and more than that at
night. I saw girl in the cobbler's
shop there mending her shoe under the
amused eyes of her instructor. ..
"She wanted to know how said tho
oobbler teacher, and so l let her. Lots
of the girls come to class here"
; l went to the Jefferson school, too,
the first school put up by the steel
mills people when they assayed the
sand waste and named it Gary. Mr..
Writ speedily made an attic into
gymnasium, put in his special teach.
ers and equipped his playground, and,
barring the elderly aspect OF the place,
it is as model as any. ..,.
For the model of the Gary schools
consists of opportunity, extravagant
opportunity for work aud play, work
made into play. And the running costs
no more than in any other city, pro.
portionately, while the attractions"
are far ahead in number and in the
method in which they are presented.