The West Virginian. [volume] (Fairmont, W. Va.) 1914-1974, 1917-05-23
Will be Open in the School
Building Tomorrow and
Friday.
WHERE TO FIND THEN
Museum of Colonial Relics
is Worth Much At
tention.

The annual High school exhibit will
be held tomorrow and Friday Of this
week In the High school building.
New departments will be represented
in the exhibits this year. Domestic
art, Domestic science, Drawing and
Manual Training heretofore have been
the only departments represented. The
work of these departments is of such
character that 1t can be exhibited to
better advantage. However, much
work In all the departments of very
practical nature has been done dur.
ing the past year. The principal and
teachers of the high school thought
1t advisable to offer opportunity for all
subjects to be represented in the ex-
hibits this year
The exhibits will be placed in the
high school building as follows: Man
ual Training and Domestic art on the
third floor in the room formerly used
as a gymnasium; Domestic science
on the second floor in room No. s. All
Of these departments have done ex-
ceedingly good work this year and
their display will even surpass that
of former exhibits.
An exhibit which will attract UNI
usual attention, no doubt, this year will
be museum consisting of old relics
of colonial times collected by the SEN
Tor history classes. This exhibit will
be the contribution of the history de-
partment and will be placed in a spe-
cial room on the third floor fitted up
in colonial style.
In the library on the second floor
will be found work of students rep,
resenting all the other departments
of the high school. English, Langu,
ages, Mathematics and Science. There
will be good display Of work accom-
plished by these classes during the
year, themes on very practical sub
jects, original short stories, charts
and collections, made by the science
classes. Those visiting these depart
ments will also have an opportunity
to see the excellent Library Of the high
school. The Library department will
have a special table for a collection
of some Of the best books suitable for
boys and girls Of high school age, also
a number of the best national newspa-
pers and periodicals..
Some very interesting things can be
seen in the Chemistry exhibit. Most
of the work done in the chemistry
laboratories is of such nature that
1t is impracttcable to use it for exhibit
ton purposes. About a dozen typical
experiments have been selected, the
aim being to give some idea of the
nature of the subject, the kind of
topics studied in chemistry, the meth
cd of study, and to furnish examples
of the kind of knowledge the students
are getting concerning the common ia
miliar things Of their every day ex-
perience.
Some idea of the nature of the ex-
hibit may be gained from the follow
ing outline of the experiments, shown.
/. Method of determining acidity
of soils; result Of the test on a strong
lyacid soil; effect of lime is strikingly
shown by a test on a sample of the
same soil after addition Of lime
2. Hard waters and water soften
ing; showing soap forming suds in
pure water and curdy scum in hard
water; formation of hard water by &C.
ton Of carbonic acid water on lime.
stone; softening of water by boiling,
by lime water and sal soda, washing
soda.
8. Blue Prints: Method of sensitiz-