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The Washington times., 1916-01-01

the ordinary school. may be opera
ted. The three RS" are taught in
an ordinary classroom: the manual
training and other studies i'm that
group In laboratories: the group
work in an auditorium or assembly
hall. and the physical training and
other activities in Fairgrounds,
shops, and the gymnasium.
Realizing that some of the school
rooms must be used for dra awing or
music, it has been estimated that,
even with this consideration. the
school can accommodate with ease
just about twice the capacity OF all
classrooms.
The vocational training is evolved
nstT,TSlly nst,,r,,ISy;. ,,S. MOTkm6en skiltul in
others in them. are part of the
school stan. They are for. mend
and replace school equipment and
the pupils work under their direc-
ton as mechanicians, carpenters.
painters. plumbers. and sheet-rIetaI
workers. They are so employed
continuously throughout the year.
When new furniture is needed, they
make IL. II desks are to be re-
vanished, II Is done by the work.
men and their apprentices. A model
office gives opportunity for COM
mercial practice. The electric light
ing system is kept in order The
heating plant is controlled and VEN
tilation is an important part of the
study. Domestic science courses for
girls are run on a similar plan.
The play periods may include ten
mis-. swimming, wading. organized
sports and other activities in ad-
ditlon to the usual exercises"
The auditorium period gives oppor-
tunity for the pupils TO hear lee
lures and see stereopucon views,
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New York Is Trying the
Writ Plan at Present in
Several of Its Schools, and
Teachers Are Finding 1t
Difficult to Adjust Them
selves and Their Pupils.

take part in dramatics and have
training in singing aud music Of
other kinds.
DIR. Burris, i'm summarizing, says,
the system provides:
i. For the better use Of school
buildings, day and evening.
z. The possibility of better di-
vision OF time between the regular
studies and special activities"
3. Greater fiexibility in adapting
studies to exceptional children OF ali
kinds, thereby diminishing the neces-
sity of special schools.
-. The possibility of more expert
teaching through the extension OF
the departmental plan of organiza-
tion.
70. The better use of play time,
preventing influences that undo the
work of the schools.
8. More realism In vocation and
industrial work by placing 1t under
the direction OF expert workmen
from the ranks of laboring men.
- The possibility OF promoting
grades.
49, A plan which brings together.
In unitary way. with economy and
efficiency in management, the other
recreational and educational agen-
cies OF the city,
%NlSS lIilShOBlH fNDeH1eT, VINO Taught
in Gary for two years, says:
The Gary school is challenge to
the teacher because under this plan
the task Is TO teach children under
real life conditions to grow up into
intelligent and caDahlo men and
women. In Gary, children work and
study under real life conditions. meet
real problems and learn to solve
them. The Gary schools accomplish
what educators say should be ac-
complished. but they do It by bring
ing the outside world into the
school"
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THE Gary school system is COM
ing East. Already II has
reached New York where. un-
der the name of the Writ
plan" conflicting storms Of approval
and condemnation have already been
aroused.
Increased opportunity" and pos
sibllity for individual development"
urge those who favor the plan.
Chaos" impossible to train con-
centratIon" IL the negative conten-
tion.
And Just what Is the Gary system?
Nine wears ago William A. Writ
was appointed superintendent OF
schools IN Gary, Ind, town prac-
ticallY built To order ny the au.
thorities of the United states steel
Corporation. Realizing that he had
the opportunity. seldom offered. OF
adapting a school to its community
he set about organizing system
that threatens to cause an educa-
ttonal revolution.
What Is a Gary School?
This Is what Gary school is. ac-
ccrdlng to the little bulletin issued to
visitors:
"A playground. garden. workshop,
social center. library. anu traditional
school combined under the same
management. 1t is considered OF
the greatest Importance that right
conditions be provided for the pleas
ure and recreation OF the child and
adult In addition, a properly or
zaniEed playground. workshop. and
school secure the same attitude OF
the mind toward the reading, writ
ing. and arithmetic that the child
normally has for plav."
teacher, says Dean W. p. Burris. Of
the University OF Cincinnati, theSe
are two Innovations that mark the
Gary system as unusual. First, all
the grades and the high school are
in one building, providing q less
abrupt step from the grade 20 the
secondary instruction. With the
canny purpose OF encouraging the
children to better their work, the
high school class rooms are often
next to those of the grades. ThIbugh
the open doors the younger children
can see the most fascinating ex-
periments and these glimpses spur
them on to promotion that will bring
them nearer to the chance of making
those experiments themselves.
Specialized Instruction.
The second innovation concerns
th% teacher even more directly. The
instruction is largely departmental,
following, even in the grades, the
idea OF specialized instruction in
various subjects. As DR.. Burris
says in his bulletin on the Gauy sys-
tenn:
"Many teachers highly successful
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December.

Nay, no closed doors for me,
But open doors and open hearts and
glee
To welcome young and old.
Dtmmest and brightest month am l
My short days end, my lengthening
days begin;
What matters more or less sun in the
sky
When all is sun within?
December begins making a wreath as
he sings)
Wy and privct, dark as night,
weave with hips and haws a
cheerful show,
And holly for a beauty and delight,
And milky mistletoe.
While high above them all | set
Yew twigs and Christmas roses pure
and pale
Then spring her snOwdrop and her
May keep, so sweet and frail;
May keep each merry singing bird.
OF al! her happy birds that singing
For I've a carol which some shep-
herds heard
Once i'm n Wintry field
CHRISTINA G. ROSSETTI.
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Safety Pin Old.

The safety bin and the hook and eye
are generally supposed TO be modern
inventions. The former. in fact, has
been credited to Queen Victoria. She
may have improved upon It, but certain
~ she is not entitled to the distinction
Of having invented it. Numerous spccl-
mems Of the useful cOntrivance have
been found in the ruins of Crete Some
OF them are I'm the museum Of the Tn
Versity of PENNSYLVANIA. and the mu-
scum has also a hook and eve from the
same place
Both the safely pins and the hook and
eve now in the museum were made at
least 900 years before Christ some are
made OF bronze. but amber or some
other material was often used on the
most elaborate pins. Some were oven
made Of lHcly wrought gold.-HUuth's 5
Companion.
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so. many. lectures, skim through so
many books2
OF course. IL I'm earning my living 1
must work for 1t and work not only
honestly but hard. But 1t seems to me
that most of the terrific hurrying we do
hasn't much to do with really essential
work after all. It's a kind OF habit we
get In, a sort OF madness, like the thing
that overtakes the crowd at a ferry
landing or the entrance to a train. I've
TO get on a particular car when the next
we'll
Where are they going In such a hur-
~? TO save a life? To mend broken
spirits? Or are they Just rushing be-
cause the rest do IT.
What do they get out OF life-these
people who ere always in a rushH
Look! The laurel tree in my Cali
fornia garden is full OF bursting buds
The rains are beginning and the trees
will soon be flecked with a silver veil OF
blossoms I hadn't noticed 1t before,
Look! The yellow acacia! How like
clctted sunshine Il Is, and how brave
the gallant geranlums stand and face
the falling rain.
Out there, below the window. the
seas. What stories there must be
aboard of them! Who's the cantain of
that queer little craft that hasn't been
painted in ten years. I'll warrant"
Never from smooth eeaR and smiling
skies came that. What's the story? I
believe I'll tske titme to 70 down 70 the
waterfront tomorrow and see what I
can hear about It,
See! They're running home car to-
day. the little fishing boats. whnt hap
pened TO them out beyond the Heads?
What interesting lives the men who 60
out on those, daring little boats must
live! I'm going down 10 Fisherman's
Wharf some day ana see IL 7 cart
get some OF them TO talk to me about
It. ! never thought OF II before. 1
didn't have time. ] was too busy.
Doing what?
What's your hurry? Come. friend or
my heart, I'll say that to YOU today
and say 1t In deem and friendly earnest.
What's your hurry? Come let's 90
for a walk together and see ~ we can
find out Let us keen finding ouf
through all the new year.
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The Blind.


gentle. mist-white face, whence
All feshly hint; he seems a Christ
grown old.
Long, spare white locks, a careless
pointed beard,
wind-teased; transparent. clutching
bands that hold
The left, store OF shoestrlngs; ana
the right,
A cane that starkly substitutes for
sight.
His back so bent beneath the coat,
loose-hung,
The wonder is that he can live at all
A little fleck of spume that life has
Against the wall here. where the
crowds flood by
Work-faring. He is old and white and
shy.
And now he moves. But-this is wo-
A puzzIing thing; repairmen on the
Have sorcered it to what disastrous
changel
The curb no more; a step aIoft; de-
feat
Lies here. A simple change. and yet
the cane,
Though faithful, has no power to ex-
plain.
He finds all new that he has known
so well.
His wide. fogged eyes stare wider
Death, perhaps.
Turks here. He knows not. 1t Is hard
to tell,
And so he gropes with little. futile
taps.
And gropes-and taps-and Eropes-
and taps again;
And past him swirls the world of see
ing men.
Miriam Teichner. in the New York
Evening Mail.
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V)T how much does 1t cost. but
how much is this worth to
me, should be the attitude

| u
me. should be the attitude
in making every purchase.
Price varies. but value is fixed.
Price varies because of market con-
ditions, labor conditions, styles, sup
ply and demand, and many other
factors. But the value of anything
does not fluctuate, and Is set not by
outside agencies but by ones per-
Bonal needs.
The buyer, whose guido d Valpa,
has fixed a rock OF standards. The
price of an article In no way need
determine its value. 1t may be .
costume creation with a price Of
three figures. it may be a molten
jewel whose tag exhibits four cyph-
ers. 1t may be a luscious dainty
like diamond terrapin. In all cases
the price is ficticious, changing and
determined not inherently by value,
but externally by a caprice of pres
tige, scarcity or connoiseurship.
A simple little snap fastener maxi
ing for rapidity in dressing. might,
in value of saving time and effort,
be far more valuable than a device
at ten times its cost. A peculiar
shaped pairing knife which enables
the worker TO prepare vegetables
with a minimum of effort and toll IL
worth in value twenty times the 10
cents 1t may have cost. An anti
doorslam, a safety lamp, a pocket
blackeninG brush, a yard of button
tape, all of these and many other
articles of infnitesimal price have
great value.
On the other hand. the turban OF
aeroplane shape, the fancy neckwear
Of up-tO-the-mInute style. the bizarre
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Some Favorable Opinions Of Gary
System

The Gary school system is young for final judgment to
the value of those characteristics by which is best known
but that time will prove they have merits be the Opn
ion of all who have studied these schools most careuy
PHILANDER p. CLAYTON, u. S. Commissioner of Educa
tiOn.
opportunities of the city, all Of the time for all Of the people,
and way that reveals old and young that what they
doing is worth whie"-DR. w. P. BURRLS, dean Of the
Teachers College of the University of Cincinnati
THE children in Gary selfrelian and have na
tive than the children brought up in the ordinary school,
MISS ELIZABETH ROEMER Investigator for the Russell
Sage Foundation and former teacher in Gary.
THE pupils of the Gary schools display greater secon
troll selfrespect and thoughtful consideration for
others than the pupils of the in of the better
school systems of today'-DR HARLAN UPDEGRAFF, for
chief of the Division of School Administration in the IT,
u. Bureau of Education.
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AnS1UerS
To Health
Questions

+. NJ. C.-Please tell me OF something
that can do to get more weight?
Take lots OF outdoor exercise. swim
ming, tennis, dancing; sleep ten hours
In twenty-four; drink three quarts %
distilled water daily. eat fatty. greasy
take wineglass of olive oil one-half
hour before meals.
NJ. F. K.-1 suffer the most terrific
pains I'm all parts of my stomach. My
case has been pronounced Rastritis. 1
have been taking bi-carbonate OF soda
with some relief. | season my food
with red pepper, black pepper and salt
most extravagantly. and 1 would like
to know just what l should use.
The bi-carbonate you have been using
is very good for you. You should not
touch any pepper, red or black, mus
tard, chill, catsup, or any other condi-
ments. Refrain from using tobacco in
any form, avoid drinking tea or coffee
and give up meats for while. Take
plenty of exercise in the fresh air
sleep ten hours in the twenty-four, and
eat only green vegetables. such as spin
ach, watercress, carrots, rice, baked
sour apples, clear soups, bran crack
ers, brown bread, corn bread, fresh
fruits, dried fruits, cereals, and oat-
meal.
Edw. W.--Could you prescribe a REM
edy for asthma:
Have the ethnoIds. iurbinates and
other nose bones operated on L. the
trouble is there Tho tCnsilS and ade-
nCids must be removed IL necessary. in.
tections of bacterial vaccines given, and
hypodermic Injections of ten drops OF a
! 10 100 solution of adTenalin or opine-
phrin germ in the attacks also help
This must be done by a skilled physl-
clan.
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Do You Follo1U Price or Value?
By MRS. CHRISTINE FREDERICK.

cut glass Jelly dish, the fragile
fiimsies that cost so much and wear
so ltttie-their price is out OF all pro-
portnon to their value.
The price paid to hear a reputn-
ton, to sit three seats from the
front, or to acquire an education of
spectacular "eXtras"-this price is
diSproportonate TO value received.
One of the strongest tendencies of
the day is the temptation to be
swayed by price. Every homemaker
has to face it in the elaborate clothes
Of her neighLor-in the more lux
urious house-in the more snowy
table. or the "splurgc" of additional
servants. How much is il worth is
far better an interrogation than how
much does it cost? And that worth
can be determined only by having
first set up ten commandments OF
values which we shall try to follow
every day in our own lives and for
our own particular needs.
Copyright 1916, by Mrs. Christine Frederick
The Washington times., 1916-01-01
Three Minute
Journeys
By TEMPLE MANNING.
kR in the interior OF Dutch

r. AR In the interior OF Dutch
~ New Guinea. or Papua as II
sometimes is called. there are
all sorts OF strange sights to
be seen. But amazing and outland-
ish as are some of the plant life and
many of the animals with which the
forests abound, the most astonishing
are the men who inhabit these jun
gles-savages of the most primitive
type.
Let an explorer paddle up or down
the rivers and he will be met at
every village by excited natives wad-
ing out to seize his canoe and drag
II ashore. They do not mean any
harm to him-for they know that he
is able to stand off the entire tribe
with his guns-but they want him to
from their enemies. II they can
steal gun they are happy. for their
only weapons are stone clubs.
Indeed, the stone age still survives
I'm the interior OF Papua, just as it
existed thousands of years ago in
the heart OF Europe. When a Papuan
boy wants weapon he haunts the
streams until he finds an ovoid stone
through which the water has ground
a hole. This hole he makes larger
by rubbing 1t induatriously with an
other stone until It is large enough to
take the stick he has cut for a
handle. Then he forces the stone
down on the stick as hard as he can
and as tight as he is able, and his
weapon is complete.
With this implement Of the chase
the Papuan dares to tackle aIrnoEt
any OF the animals to be found IN his
native swamps and forests. Yet he "A
not above eating snakes, while the
small game are his highest delight
as food. He is brave enough TO at
tack the wild pigs with which the
them the sacrifice of his primItiNJe
religion.
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The Washington times., 1916-01-01
Good-by OLD YEAR

Good-bN old year-good-by-
We breathe it with sigh
Fond memory holds her rarest gifts from thee
Trials o'ercome, the spirits battles won
And moments sweet, divine complete
No magic words can alter;
Good-by--we may not falter-
We loved thee, yet the hour has come to sever:
All! list to the glad bells ring
Behold the splendor of the King
So fair naught with him can vie:
Dear old year-good- -by-good-by
FLORENCE DE SAVE WIGHTMAN
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Seed Bread.

Required-Four ounces of butter, two
pounds OF flour, half an ounce of cara
way seeds, quarter of an ounce of
spice. half a pound of moist sugar. one
pint of milk, once ounce of yeast, and
one teaspoonful of castor sugar.
Rub the butter into the flour, add the
seeds, also the spice and sugar. Mix all
we'll Warm the milk and cream to-
gether with the yeast and castor sugar.
When this is liquid. strain ii into the
tepid milk. Pour this into the middle
Of the flour. Make the mixture into a
light dough and knead it well. Line a
cake tin with creased PAPER. Put in
the dough, and place the tin in warm
place until the dough rises to twice the
original size. 1t will take about an
hour Then bake in a moderate oven
for two hours
The Washington times., 1916-01-01

ERE is something that l saw
- out my window-it has given
4 i me the big thought for my big
gest resolution. The man at
the corner house ran down the steps
in terrible hurry. He saw the car
coming up the hill and whistled to It
from the porch, but the man who was
running the car did not hear the
whistle. Anyway, he didn't stop the
car, and the man on the steps looked
As IL he'd like to catch the conductor
of that car and do something distinct
ly unfriendly to him, and do It right
then and there. lie jammed his hat
down over his forehead and started
walking very fast,
Whats your hurry?" said the man
he was passing on the corner, What 3
your hurry, Joe?" and the man on the
corner held out his hand.
well, I'll be -" said Joe, and he
held out his hand. too, IF 1t isn't"
And it was. and thev Doth laughed
and shook hands and ciapped each
other on the back and shook hands
again.
whats your hurry?" said the man
on the corner again.
II dunno" said the man who was
SO cross because he'd lost his car.
NOJnlnB inuCn, guess, ana ne laugh
ed and the other man laughed and they
shook hands again. And the last
saw of them they had terted down
the street right In the opposite direc-
tion from which the man in the hurry
had started to go, and they weren't
in a hurry at all.
DO you know what 1 wished right
then and there? 1 wished that every
time ] get into The senseless habit of
rushing everywhere and tearing
through eVerythihg as ~ n was NV 10 st
day on earth and there wasn't min
ute left to lose, somebody would stop
me on the corner Of whatever street of
circumstance l may be starting to
cross and say to me in friendly fashion
whats the hurry2"
What is the hurry, after ell? Where
arc we all goingT What for?
What difference docs it make whether
read my paper at o'clock in the
morning or at ,half-Past nine?
Will the world STOP swinging in its
orbit, il don't meet Just SO many peo-
pie a day, write so many letters. hear
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~ OJTWEAR for the winter.
- runs the gamut from skating
boots to mules for boudoir
wear while dress shoes-the
in-betweens OF. the scale-are more a
part of the costume than ever be-
fore. The plain low-heeled walking
shoe of black kid is a necessity to
every winter outfit, For afternoon
wear are particularly striking boots
with vamps and heels of patent
leather and CATERS of white kid,
with fiat pearl buttons. All-black
shoes with cloth tops and patent
leather vamps, quarters. and heels
Will do for less formal oceasionE.
cloth OF silver seems 10 have sun
planted gold, so popular last winter
Tor evening wear. one pair, a colo
nlal last, Is gay with large. square
rhinestone buckles ana a high tongue
edged with selver lace. Black satin
opera slippers with beaded Vamps
are trimmed with Tiny bows. also
lcadcd. For afternoon wear indoors
The. colonial last is again uti;N.cd.
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ChiIdren's Party Cake.

Use ounces Of butter, ounces OF
sugar, 4 eggs 10 ounces OF self-raising
-four one-half pound of sultanas, one
quarter pound of mixed peel. grated
rind of lemon.
Cream the butter and sugar together.
Add the eggs well beaten. Stir in the
flour and fruit alternately. Place the
mixture in tin lined With two layers
of creased paper, and bake in a moder-
ate oven for two hours.
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Salad Dressing.

To make this dressing there is needed
the yolk of one egg. quarter OF r.
taespoonful Of mustard, a quarter of a
teaspOonful OF salt, a pinch Of cayenne,
a quarter OF teaspoonful of sugar a
half-teaspsoOnful of salad oil, one table,
spoonful of vinegar and two tablespoon
fuls Of milk. To mix the salad place
the yOlk of the egg in a basin with the
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Short Pastry.

Use one-half pound Of self-raising
flour, one-quarter pound Cf lard and
butter, one-half teaspoonful OF salt,
water to mix.
Rub the butter and lard into the
-four, to which add the salt Mix %
stiff paste, and roll it out on a Toured
board. This pastry is excellent for
fruit tarts. pies and dumplings
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A Few Easy Recipes
By ANN MARIE LLOYD.

salt. mustard, cayenne and sugar.
Smooth these carefully with q teaspoon
fuI of cream. Then gradually add the
remainder OF tho cream ar OIL ana SUI
the vinegar in slowly TO avoid curuhng'
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The Washington times., 1916-01-01

There are few paupers in Japan. Ev-
eryDody works. and It IL considered a
disgrace TO be supported nv your rala-
your own living.
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Cotfee is increasingly used in the Brit
ish Isles. the comparative returns for
the seven months to the end OF JtIiv
showing a surplus OF 3,l7S.GO0 pounds.
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The United States built during the
twelve months ended June 20. 1915, l,99i
vessels OF 2l5.nA gross tonnage. com
preViouS Near
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PERSONAL ADVICE.

Readers desiring advice should
remember:'
1. To address inquiries to DIR. L.
X. Hirshberg, care Of The
Washington Times.
2. To enclose a stamped and ad-
dressed envelope ii a personal
reply is desired.
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1.ondon's Inhabitants include III Ooo
persons who reside in flats
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Does Gary System Correlate Study and Work
with Play or Produce Educational Chaos?

Started Nine Years Ago in
Gary, Ind, by William
A. Writ, Superintendent
of Schools, the System
Has Already Won Com
mendation and Condem-
nation of Educators.
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Railway guards in Germany have since
$500 women. ~
The Washington times., 1916-01-01

One OF the oldest known types of dogs
is the greyhound
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IT is estimated that co. No American
settlers have entered Canada since the
outbreak of the war.
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Gas meters I'm New York are 10 he
read by photograph, Meter readers em-
ployed by the gas company will he
equipped with small cameras which nj
pressing a button light is thrown On tho
diol and exposure made, showing the
amount Of ras consumed since the last
photograph.