Evening capital news. (Boise, Idaho) 1901-1927, 1916-05-07

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the students and each wrote story OF
the paintings. The students of the |
fourth grade, during the term, have
written two plays and original cover |
designs were made for each. One OF
the plays were entitled, 1.-THE Trailing |
Arbutus." The cover design especially
showed originality. Bird study, in a
manner profitable to rural students, is
taught by Miss Philippi Lettering
work was quite artistically done by the
students of both grades. The arithme-
tic lessons showed neatness and accur-
acy was taught and the entire lessons
of the year were shown in the display.
In handwork, the students had made
lamp mats, small rugs from yarn and
| rags on weaving frames, raffia mats
and picture frames and some especial
ly near split raffia mats.
Fifth and Sixth Grades.
Miss Ruby Canon, teacher of the
! fifth and sixth grades, had on display
an exhibit by her students, showing
| their advancement in study lines, in
handwork and in originality. The years
specimens of writing in her grades in
dicated marked Improvement and was
one of her exhibits which caused much
| favorable comment. The colored maps
and the relief maps in these grades
! formed an attractive part Of the ex-
hibit. In these maps the chief prod
| ucts of the different sections of the
| country were marked by the product
| itself. Maps of the United States were
/ drawn from memory and showed that
most of the students had a good mental
photograph of the geography of this
country. The drawings showed origi-
nal designs in colored wall paper. flow
| ers, calendar designs in Dutch wind
mills, fruits and illustrated stories of
| the different seasons on the farm. Old
and famous paintings were shown in
4 book work and stories of each written.
| Lettering is taught to her students, the
same as is found on architectural plans
and in window signs, and the work was
very creditable.
Seventh and Eighth Grades.
I The exhibit in the seventh and eighth
grades. taught by B. w. Tucker, was
more on the line of the regular study
| work taught grades and was arranged
| neat and attraetively An illustrated
story of the life of Abraham Lincoln
formed the chief attraction In the ex-
hibit The exhibit showed the log
cabin home of Lincoln and ended with
the drawing of the national capitol, and
each student had written a brief his
tory of his life. The colored map work
and flower drawings were excellent.
! The students had drawn some excel
lent maps of Idaho, in which the coun-
ties We're all shown and their names
printed in with ink. Ink drawings Of
the alphabet were made by the stu
dents, both the capital and small let
! tiers.
4 Ninth, Tenth and Eleventh Grades.
\ The upper grades in the school in
/ which high school studies are taught.
had exhibits of their work in very at
| tractive form. The exhibits We're
| chiefly in book form showing the work
! in physics, geometry and general sci
ence, the latter being taught in a man
ner valuable to students residing on
| ranches, such as pump lifting power,
i irrigation, and weather reports, tab
ulated. The upper grades are taught
/ by Professor O. H. Herbig and Miss
Mabel E. Roberts and the course given
is the regular high school course, which
| has Just been added to the school and
is proving a success.
Manual Training.
I The exhibit of work in the manual
/ training department afforded a sur
| prise to all visitors. This department
is new one added to the school work
| this year, and in securing for an in
| structor, Miss Hazel Keil, the trustees
/ of the school certainly secured a find,
/ Judging from the work down in that
! department by the students. Miss keil
] is a graduate of the Albion state nor
NAL school, where she took a major
/ portion of her special course in manual
training and mechanical training under
/ Professor r. A. Bull. Her success
speaks for itself in the exhibit. Begin
ming with the pupils of the fifth and
sixth grades, who have a period of
from 40 to 60 minutes each week, their
work was purely knife or solid work
and consisted of door buttons, match
safes. letter holders, bill files and bird
houses of original design.
/ The seventh and eight grade pupils
are given two 40-minute periods each
week and their first work consisted of
cross-cut and rip-saw exercises and
they have made such useful articles as
chick feeders, tool boxes. nail cabinets,
fence pickets and tool boxes. A drawing
of each article or piece of furniture is
first made and from it the finished arti-
Gle in wood work is followed out from
the design, thus giving a knowledge
of knowing just what is required be-
fore work is attempted. The work of
the older students consisted of foot
stools. library tables, Morris chair
and other well-finished articles of fur
niture. Strength and shrinkage of
wood has been taught the pupils OF
Miss KeiI in a practical way. She has
also taught architectural lettering
/ The cabinet work in her neat work
shop was put in by the boys of the
tenth and eleventh grades. There are
four benches in her shop and she ac-
commodate a class of eight boys at a
time. The tool rack for the school
shop is especially neat, and one slant
ing from the wall on which the tools
hang and beneath each hook is painted