The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1916-01-13
Next Thursday Afternoon and Even
Ing viii be Visitors Day In
Manual Training Domestic
Science Building.
TO EXHIBIT HAND1woRK
Manual Training Classes viii Show
Articles Made and One cIass
VIII Give Practical
Demonstration.

day at the annual training and do
nestle science departments of the
keokuk schools. in the Mckinley
school building at Eighth and Con
cert streets. Exhibition of the work
,ol the students in the department will
De made. and the public is invited to
come and sec Just what is being done.
IN the manual training room there
VIII be plenty Of work to show that
manual training instruction in the
heokuk schools IL something more
tnan just learning to drive nails.
Ihere Will be an exhibit Of the cabinet
work which Is being turned out by
the high school classes, and the Wis
itors will have a chance to see the
Dogs turning out some OF the work,
as 1t is planned to have the lathes
working.
instruction in the manual training
department is given in mechanical
drawing, wood work, cement work,
which was added this last year, and
takes the place of forging, and wood
turning. H. M. Mcclure is the in
structor in this department, and has
proved a most competent and careful
teacher. Mr.. Mcclure has developed
the work of the department far above
the usual idea Of manual training
work In schools, and the finished
products show the effects Of the skill |
and training which he gives to the |
boys.
Courses Are Practical.
| The drawing course in this depart.
ment covers two years of one hour
each day. Other classes in this de-
partment are cabinet making, two
years, cement work, one year, and
wood turning one year. One hour
each day is given to the instruction
| in these classes. Individual work is !
Igiven in forging and at machinist's
lathes.
| There is total of 27o enrolled in
the manual training department. The
enrollment is divided as follows:
| Keokuk high school, IS; st. Peters
high school, 16; eighth grade, 70: sew
enth grade. "a; st. Mary's school,
Cement Work 10 New.
Drawing work is not simply theoret-
zeal in the course given by Mr.. Nc
Clure. The boys learn to draw, and
then make working drawings and blue
prints from which they make articles.
1 ne uOyo, ldSL SpIl1 Idiu lNe uOOT III
the manual training rooms, they built
a large drawing table, and this year
have built several long tables which |
are used for drawing classes.
In the cement work. which Is open
for all high school Toys, the class is
taught how to mix cement, and Is
given practical instruction which will |
be of service to them in making
things around home. The walk which
leads from the manual training build
ing to the alley, was built by the class
in cement. In the work that is being
done now, the boys are building
flower boxes and lawn pedestals.
Domestic Science Work.
The domestic science department.
which has its rooms up stairs in the
Mckinley building, has Miss Helen G.
Packer for Instructor. Miss Packer
is teaching her first year here, al
though she has taught In other schools
before coming here. Miss Packer is
proving thoroughly competent, and
her classes are receiving instruction
along the various lines which are in
cluded in domestic science work.
instruction in the domestic science
work Is given in this department in
sewing and cooking. A pupil may
elect two years of cooking and two
years Of sewing in the high school.
instruction in the seventh grade is in
cooking, one hour each week. In
struction In the eighth grade Is given
in sewing, one hour each week. There
are enrolled in the various domestic
science classes, 27e pupils, as follows:
High school, "a; eighth grade, 10;
seventh grade. 119; st. Mary's paro-
chial school, 10.
The high school classes are for one
hour each day.
The domestic science department
has already given demonstration of
the work 1t can do, in the playground
association dinner served last No
vember.
A large number of people took ad-
vantage of visitors day last wear and