The Kansas City sun. (Kansas City, Mo.) 1908-1924, 1916-05-13

Throughout the various departments
of the Birmingham (Ala.) industrial
high school a practical spirit is con-
stantly seen. In the sewing room
girls are taught to sew all of the ordi-
nary thin things which must be used
in every home. The costumes for our
annual musicales are always made
here, and no girl can graduate until
she makes her entire outfit, the
dresses of which must come within
the limit of 81. That this can be done
and the result be pleasing alike to eye
and purse you can easily judge by
looking at the dresses of the girls who
sit upon this platform. Our emer-
gency room is an instance of all work
ing together. Several pieces of furni-
ture, including one of the beds, was
made in the carpentry department.
The sewing room furnished the quilts,
the art department made the placards
over the door and the Mothers I'm
provement association furnished the
medicines to go into our school-made
chest.
Our superintendent once made the
remark that our school was the least
expensive n to the city in the sys-
TEN. Instead of having someone do
things for us, the only expense in
Cured is for materials, as we do the
work ourselves. The only outsider
who has done any work at our school
for over three years was a plumber,
and If our city did not have such funny
plumbing rules our boys would have
done that work.
When books fall to pieces, as these
cheaply bound editions are sure to do,
the bo%okbinding department resews
and binds them, thereby often making
them more durable than at first. These
are then put into bookcases made by
the boys, for our office contains but
one piece of bought furniture, and that
is the principals desk. Not satisfied
with furniture making, this year our
boys went a step further and built a
sanitary drinking fountain so that the
health of all the children can now be
s~afeguarded by drinking from a bub-
bling stream.
In u cooking department girls are
taught to practice economy in the
m~ost-needed place of all-the kitchen.
The dining room contains an extension
table, buffet and chairs. all of school
manufacture. The art department
stenciled the curtains which hang at
the windows. Our room lunch is offer
ing a most excellent opportunity for a
development of business thrift. Ten
girls of the senior class were chosen
last March to work in pairs and serve
one day in each week. They were
given the same amount of money as a
beginning and told to plan their W
means and keep their own accounts.
At the close of the semester the re-
suits were as follows: Team l has
made $6.15; team 2, s6.08; team 8,
$3.50; team 4, 1851; team 5, $7.72.
During the term two baseball teams
have been entertained at our building.
The emergency room was turned into
a dormitory and meals were cooked
and served at the dining room to the
complete satisfaction of all concerned.
Danger to four hundred American
Mormon colonists at Colonia Dublan
was removed by the arrival of a por-
ton of Colonel Dodd's cavalry column
there. Dublan is south of Casas
Grandes. The Tenth cavalry, Negroes,
reported to have been the first to en-.
ter Mexico, south of Hachita, early
Thursday, composed the Dublan relief
party.
The march of Colonel Dodd's forces
from Hachita to Casas Grandes, a dis.