St. Johnsbury Caledonian. [volume] (St. Johnsbury, Vt.) 1867-1919, 1917-06-13
To Show Products of Manu-
al Training, Domestic
Science and Drawing.
SUMMER STREET
SCHOOL The PLACE
To See the Boys at Ac-
tual Work In the Shop-Girls
Will Give An Exhibition
of Cooking Wednesday
and Thursday


Domestic Science and
Drawing departments of the Public
Schools will be held in the Summer
Street School June 20 and 81, both
afternoon and evening. The public
is cordially invited to attend this ex-
hibit, which in many respects will
surpass any heretofore given by these
departments.
The exhibit of industrial work done
by the seventh and eighth grade boys
will be more varied and complete
than ever before. Especial attention
has been given to rural and practi-
cal home problems as suggested by
the Handicraft Department of the
United States Department of Agricul-
ture. Such problems as home can
ners, several varieties of fireless cook
ers, handy ladders, milking stools,
brooders, fly traps, ironing boards,
poultry appliances, seed testers and
rope work. Cabinet work, inlay, can
ing and concrete work are all repre-
resented.
A model hen house taken from a
government bulletin has been COM
pleted in every detail, one-fifth actu-
al size. The eighth grade boys will
work on 15-foot canoe they are
building.
On Wednesday the goth in the af-
ternoon and evening and Thursday
afternoon the shop will be in full OPP
GRAFTON with the boys at work on va
ried projects such as Gaming, concrete
work, upholstering, cabinet work, saw
fling and mechanical drawing.
The eighth grade boys have done
exceptional work in mechanical
drawing this year, making their
pencil sketch, tracing on tracing cloth
and finally blueprinting.
The advertising poster in the store
windows about town was the work of
Orrie jerks of grade eight.
A large list of cash prizes are
planned for the work on exhibition,
and there will be contests for prizes
in rope tying. 1t is the idea by this
method to select the best represents
tive works of the school to be sent to
Burlington and Springfield, Mass
next year.
It is the wish of the School De-
partment that all take advantage of
this opportunity to view the hand
work being done in the grammar
grades.
Domestic Science Show
The Domestic Science exhibition
will attempt to show the results OF
the years work, and how much each
girl can accomplish after years
training. The cooking exhibition will
consist of a bread contest for the
eighth grade girls, which every girl
is required to enter, instead of a writ
ten final examination. Then the sew
anth grade girls have a cake contest
instead of their examination. In ad-
dition every girl is exhibiting some
other article of cookery which she
has made at home all by herself or
in the school kitchen. The exhibit
ton of canned food is chosen from
the work which the girls have been
doing for the past six weeks, and a
few cans will be on sale, at cost. The
season of the year prohibits great
err variety, but it has not been the ac-
QUESTION of a great number of cans
rather the knowledge of how to
can-which has been the aim of this
work.
Exhibition classes in cooking will
be in progress Wednesday afternoon
and evening, also Thursday after
noon At these times the girls will be
working at various tasks to illustrate
the scope of the years work. Visit
ors are urged to come and visit these
classes.
The sewing exhibition will consist
Of an exhibition of the cooking uni
forms which the sixth grade girls
for h q
work in cooking in the seventh grade.
Then the eighth grade girls have for
their chief accomplishment their mid
dy smocks which they will wear at
graduation. These smocks cost the
girls only IS cents and certainly each
girl will enjoy her graduation eXer-
cises the more because of a uniform
dress which she herself made. The
fifth grade sewing exhibition will con-
sist of smaller articles which have
served to illustrate the various stitch
es and have stimulated the girls in
terest so much more than the GUS
tomary sample.
Certainly, if the value of a course
in Domestic Science is ever doubted,
this exhibition Of the work which has
been accomplished should impress
one with the practical aspect, if moth
ing more.
Drawing From Every School
The drawing exhibit is a full one,
every grade in the town and rural
schools, being represented. The work
done in the fall and winter consisted
mainly of design emphasizing mar
gins, spacing, contrast of amounts
and unity. This is illustrated in the
Fruit" posters, the bookcovers and
| calendars.
In the seventh grade an interesting
experiment was tried. The boys and
| girls designed monograms and ci-
piers which were used in very
practical way. For instance, the
girls embroidered the monographs on
| linen guest towels while the boys
made. monagramed stationery. This
work will be shown.
| During the spring term, the en-