Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-12
RURAL SCHOOLS HAVE
INTERESTING DISPLAYS
Women Visitors To Fair Will Find
Much To Hold Their Attention In
A.. Objects And Needle Work Es-
hihits-Pupils Of City Graded Schools
Display Excellent Work.

+ a great dSaA 10 Interest tAe4h Az NA'>
pr2Itily arranged displays Of merchan
disc of many kinds that the retail mer-
chants Of the city have on display in
their TWO buildings,
OF more than ordinary interest in the
school exhibit building is the displays
Of the work OF pupils of some of the
rural schools. These exhibits are eS-
ceptional and worth more than pass
ing glance. The same holds equally
true OF the work Of grade pupils of the
city schools.
much Of the needle work. crocaeting 8,
stitching and tatting on display in the
art will hold special interest for
women visitors All of these exhibits
combined are we'll worth spending a
whole afternoon seeing.
Splendid Art Exhibit
The space given over 10 the art de-
partment in charge OF Mrs. r W. Nc
Creery and Mrs f L. Meeker is
crowded with paintings in water color
and oil drawings in charcoal. pen ann
ink and pencil and monochromes,
While the cases for hand painted china
are we'll filled Both exhibits are es-
pec!aiiy fine and worth visiting.
= In the textile department the super
intendent Mrs. VI. s Mcfarland and
her assistants. Mrs Frank b Wiley
and Mrs VIII w. Wallace, said that
there was not as much fancy work as
in other years. due 10 the fact, they
thought, that so many young women
had been doing Red Cross work.
Quilts and crocheted bed spreads are
more numerous this year than before
and showed some beautiful hand work
and designs. The bed spreads were
made in filet and the popcorn stitch.
while one quilt Of especial value
showed cunning figures Of sun bonnet
babies on a background quilted With a
design Of a picket fence and flowers
and butterflies. Entries in the fancy
work included crocheting, taiting. en-
broidery. cross stitch and knitting in
yarn and thread. In Ihe latter some
lovely fine lace is shown.
Old Needle Work Of Interest.
IN art hall in the fancy work depart
ment each year many bring hand
made articles OF special work or inter
est which are just for display, Among
these articles this year is an old fash
toned. woven beispread made in 1898,
With the name Of the maker and the
date woven in the corners. The spread
is made on a background Of dark blue
the design being worked in white.
a set of hand made underwear made
in 1858 is also of interest. II is COM
posed of three pieces including panta-
leites with very fine tatting used as
trimming. The other tao articles are
made 10 tasten on the shoulders In
stead o. down the front or back and
with very full short sleeves.
Clothes for French Orphans.
Al the Red Cross booth in the
merchants building to De sent 70 the
French war orphans is exhibited, and
includes dresses, suits of underwear
and petticoats. All are Vade very
plain but serviceable and the interest
ing part about them is that they are
all made of discarded clothing and
scraps of cloth The dresses are made
from mems shirts, and an undershirt
made one suit of underwear. Mrs. a.
A. Moore Mrs. Nellie lamar and Mrs.
MAY Sandoe have been making these
clothes from patterns for which they
sent 10 shop in Chicago that sends
them direct 10 France. The cause for
which they are made is certainly
good one and is an object lesson in
the extreme need Of war stricken
French children.
Schools Make Good Showing.
In building by itself is the exhibit
OF the city and rural schools. in charge
Of Superintendent and Mrs. Aaron
Palmer and County Superintendent {.
z Shut. Each year the school ex-
hibit shows more improvement and
this year il is especially good from the
rural schools OF which thirty township
schools and ten consolidated schools
are represented. Their work includes
writing. drawing. free hand cutting,
map making and tinting, bead work.
sewing, canning, baking and manual
training OF especial interest were
tables and writing desks made in the
manual training department of the
Vancicve consolidated schoo! and a
quilt pieced by a-child from the sec
ond grade of the Ferguson consolidat-
ed school.
Last year each school in the city had
an especial distinctive exhibit, but the
the exhibits being of the same general
kinds SO that a comparison of the ex-
celIence of work can easily be made.
The exhibit of the Rogers school was
especially good as most Of the work
was of equal excellence. the Noah's ark
and it's inha bitants as a class problem
in wood construction being one Of the
attractive features of the building. Ii
is clever piece of work for second
grade pupils.
Girls Make Nice Flag.
Another feature of the building is a
large flag made by the girls OF the
domestic art department Of the high
school. the flag was made last June
TO be placed in the assembly room CT
the high school this fall.
The manual training department has
its usual exhibit Of wood work and
the school gardens have large dis
play of some twenty or thirty vege-
tables, together with cold pack canning
done at the high school during the
summer months. Marshalltown Chap
ter D. A. R., has offered very generous
premiums for work done in this line.
The school garden department has a
fine display OF garden plans made by
the pupils for their summer gardens.
Grade Pupils Work Good.
The other work includes pennanship
from all grades, free hand paper cnt-
ting nv the lower grades >i1luNtratfng