The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1916-08-24
IN NORTH Topeka
School Playground Season VIII
Close Next Saturday.
Quincy Has Had Pleasant and
Profitable Summer.

rr,,a ,1avqround season will close
Saturday with a big meet at GaFlieio
park. Quincy school playground mas
enioyed successful and proIltap
summer Profitable, that Is, IN inc
benefit which the children have de-
rived from it, A summary of its
activities shows progress. The girls
under the direction of Miss Lulu NC
Kee. who is experienced In WORK Win
children have covered a Wloe Ileiu-
In the rooms of Quincy school Wnlcn
are unusually cool in hot weather.
thew have played many games of the
uuiet sort, have received instruction IN
sewing. have listened to stories and
earned folk dances. The work in
sewing is graded, the children pro-
crossing from simple to more comph-
sated work as they show ability to
advance.
According to Miss Mckee the girls
are fond of fairy stories and magma
tive tales. They enjoy acting them
out Many children unfortunately
have been prevented from attending
the playground by duties at home. The
great benefit to the girls, Miss Mckee
thinks, comes in the association with
other children and the developing OF
individual initiative in a manner
which the classroom studies cannot
equal.
Roscoe Graves, a Washburn college
sIuQeHI nag u1t CClS0 tAAC UOAAA Va 49,
boys Mr.. Graves also has had ex-
perience in this line and has made
study of the playground problem. Dur
ing the summer the boys have played
baseball, volleyball, horseshoes, GRO
quet. have practiced archery and
track work, and in company with Mr..
Graves have gone swimming at Gage
park and at the Central Y. NJ. c. A.
He considers learning to swim the
most valuable practical lesson any of
them have received.
Graves estimates that the average
attendance in his department was
seventy-five boys a day. OF those
about thirty came regularly. He says
that at Quincy the city government
instituted was n complete success.
ONLY 'wo playsrounds, Quincy and
Cfesney, carried out the system with
e!ly fidelity to the theory. The Off
Gals elected consisted of a mayor. a
l.olice judge and four commissioners.
But two statutes of the constitution
we're violated during the season. The
-Wo were those AGAINST swearing and
squirting water with the fire hose in
he basement. Graves says that only
rarely was any profanity heard. But
the temptation to bring the fire hose
Into play was the bane of many. Four
suspensions occurred fer this offenSe.
rliis nose has been n great attra ction.
Every evening for twerty minutes, the
tovs took a sort of shower bath in
the basement of the school with the
hose. It increased attendance. kent
the BOYS out CT the river and cooled
them off after the heat of strenuous
exercise.
Graves toinks the greatest benefit
"a the boys from the summer work,
came in tine cultivation of self restraint
and the learning of respect for author
lily. OF individual initiative, he says,
they have sufficient already.
Notes and Personals.
F. p. Gilmore. cashier of the Shaw
rec State Bank will return Saturday
from Manitou. Colorado. where be has
reen the last two weeks.
Earl Wendell of Elmont is in t'se
CITY today.
Nm. Rohrig of Marceline. Mo. has