The Wrangell sentinel., 1917-05-24
CREDITABLE EXHIBIT BY CHILDREN OF THE
 PRIMARY GRADES
Many Parents Inspect Work of the Pupils in Miss Bihler's Room.
 Children Have Been Dilligent

Miss Mary Louise Blhler, teach CT of the primary department in the Wrangell public school, gave an exhibit of the children S work in her room last Friday afternoon.
 The Sentinel reporter, along with a number of the parents ot the children, called to inspect the work. Without the least exacgeratioH we can say that it was the best ex- hibit of the kind We have ever seen. The four walls of the room were covered with written eXer- cises. drawings. tree hand cut tings, table mats, caps, and various other articles made by the children. There was also d number of I6- page books of drawings, each pu. p.l having his individual book. The drawings were not of the Katzen- jammer kid class. but faithful, painstaking representations ot dlt- ferent objects. In every instance the drawings were surprisingly good.
 \ number of miniature hamnocks made by the different pupils were all so nearly alike, and the weav- ing so perfectly done, that they looked more like a factory product than the work of school children.
 The school was still in session when the visitors arrived. and it was a pleasure to watch the chll- dren in their work. One of the most noticeable things in connec- ton with the pupils and their ex- hlbii was the system and orderli- ness with which everything was done,
 In order to keep the study ot books from becoming irksome to the little fellows they are given various forms of diversion. which are fully as profitable as book study in developing the imagination and creating the power ot inltia- tive. Everything is done with some end in view. A fable is read. The children then illustrate it with drawings or free hand cuttings. Another day the children may be asked to illustrate winter, or spring or some industry. One section was pointed out to us where the children had been requested to illustrate the different modes ot travel. There were aeroplanes, dog sleds. limousines, railway trains, reindeer sleds, street cars, wheelbarrowS, etc.
 We came to another section of cuttings in which there was the of a distinguished body of men. The man who ap- peared to be presiding was tall and dignified. We said to Miss Bihler: You don't need 10 tell us that this is President Wilson and his cabi- net" Miss Bihler replied that the group was a distinguished body all right, but not SO far away from home; that it was none other than the Wrangell town council an the other municipal officers.
 The pupils whose work was rep resented in the exhibit were as follows:
 FIRST GRADE. .-Frederick Gun rlingham, Charles Abbott Emery, Marion Goodrich, Manuel William Lewis, Manuel Loftus. Ingvald Nore, Leonart Roaming, Raymond Wheeler, Harold Ottesen. Allie Smith. Erma Grant. Glen Mathe- son, Mary McTague, Dorothy Johnson.
 SECOND pE.-George Ander- son, Harold Anderson, Lennie Eng strom, Wilfred Gartley, Kendall Northrope, Henry Pigg, Joe Pres- colt, James Waters, James Wheel CT, Robert Wlgg, Wilhelmlna Cunningham, Catherine Matheson, Margaret Mccormack. Mary Me- Tague, Gertrude Osborn, Nettie Prescott, Nellie Rheinhart, Laura Roaming, Gladys Tamaree.
 The people of Wrangell, espe. cially those who have small chil- dren, will learn with deep regret that Miss Bihler, who has been in charge of the primary department for the past four years, has declined re- appointment.
 In leaving Wrangell Miss Bihler leaves her impress-an impress for good-on the lives of the children who came under her kindly patient care. It is an old adage, As the twig is bent so the tree will grow. " And when one consid iders thevastness of the potentialities wrapped up in childhood he realizes how important it is that the'little human twlg shall be bent in the righ, direction. Miss Bihler has surely given the