The Kendrick gazette. [volume] (Kendrick, Idaho) 1892-1968, 1916-04-14
School Notes

can rlOSc, mas volunteered TO take
charge Of the cooking and sewing
clubs in the fifth, sixth, seventh
and eighth grades. Mrs. Kelly has
had experience in this kind of work
and will be able to do it creditably.
Emma Preusyger wrote the best
original essay in the third grade on
''Sir Walter Raleigh"
Della Riggin received the highest
honor in the fourth grade for writ
ing the best original composition on
william Tell"
Arber Day Program
The Kendrick High School will
give the following program on Fri
day April 81 at l 80 P. M, in the
High School Auditorium:
Song, America" Society; Essay,
History Of Arbor Day." Carrie
Buckles, Recitation. (comic). Fred
Florance; Music, Boys Quartette;
lmpromptu, Harold Thomas: Essay,
1--WE Should Protect the Tree"
Clara Bailey; Piano Solo, Agnes
Grice; High School Paper, 10 Guy;
Recitation, Bernadine Moser; Music.
Girls Quartette; Impromptu, Frank
Meyer; Pen Portraits, Stella
Rouschke; Talk, Henry Meyer; Song,
There is Music in the Air." Society;
Address, Mr.. Huyette; Critic, Edith
Compton.
Everybody is invited to come.
Address by Prof. Dossos
The pupils of the Kendrick High
School were honored last Tuesday
by an address by Prof. Boggos of
Lucknow. India, where he was Pro-
fessor of Economics.
His talk was very interesting.
He told Of his experiences and some
Of the places he had visited. The
following is a brief outline of his
talk.yM fassa
In India, The says, people are ex-
tremely ignorant, only one per cent
Of the people can read and write.
They believe in the TRANSPORTATION
Of souls and so will not kill any
kind of an animal. Thus the rats
carry plaques over the country.
Thousands of people are killed by
the bites of the cobra. Their relig.
ious affairs are very peculiar as
they are mainly Buddists.
The daily wages Of the working
men are very small, about / Rupee,
or about 81 cents in U. 8. coin,
One person can live on two dollars
for month and in some cases the
widows live on 81 cents a month
The poor people live in mud
houses about eight by fifteen and
five feet high. There are no win.
dows in the houses and they cook
over an open fire. Their cooking
utensils consist of one brass pot
They eat pancakes made of meal
and water. Their clothes are very
scant. the mems attire consisting OF
piece Of cloth about two feet
square while that of the women is
loose garment covering the body
The attire of the children consists
of only string around the waist
and sometimes even the string is
, missing. -. go
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, The people can do remarkable
amount of work in comparison tt
the nourishment they take. 1t is
| said that a native packed his trunk
which weighed 100 lbs. for four
days on his back and all he had tc
!. eat was bunch of pancakes the
size of ones two fists.
The people of India have the
} shortest lives of any people on the
earth, due chiefly to their ignorance
J and to the plaques which sweep the
country and also to the bite of the
cobra.
In Singapore, which is the meet.
ing place of the world. sixty-five
different languages are spoken
The post offices carry mail in forty.
seven different languages. One car
stand on a street corner and see
forty-nine different races of people
in one hour. Here he sawla python
which was % feet long . and . it,
colors were very beautiful.
MIR. Boggos visited Hong Kong
last December while the city was
under martial law. Here all the
state officers are accompanied by ar
armed body guard. The streets OF
Hong Kong are only about eight
feet wide and very dirty. Some OF
the things he saw for sale in
a meat shop were boiled snakes. rat.
and bats.
i At Canton he saw rows of jars or
the hill sides. These jars were
covered with stone covers. On in.
curing about these lars he found