Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1919-05-10

In the past year in the six special De-
rartments was demonstrated at the an.
nual school exhibition which was open
ca Friday afternoon at City hall ana
will be continued this afternoon anu
evening. 1t was certainly most inter-
est-ng and attractive exhibition and re-
nected great credit upon the supervis-
ors of these departments: Manual
training. Harold L. Pride; sewing. Miss
IL liza A. Hunton; cooking. Miss Blanche
" ebster; drawing, Miss Marion NJ.
rhyng: music. Miss Gladys A. Whit
rnore; and physical training, Miss Doris
Wilder.
a good number Of people attended the
exhibition in the afternoon when dem
onstrations in cooking. sewing and
chair caneing were given.
Department Of Manual Training
The display in the department Of
manual training showed the work which
has been done since December, the first
term in that department having been
lest as Mr.. Pride. the supervisor, was
in the service. But the boys certainly
made up for lost time and the exhibit
vas dandy. A feature of this display
consisted of the furnishings for a room
&C house: chairs. made by Frank Far
r'ngton. Jr.. Earl Folsom and Merritt
Fewett: tables. made by Hugh Chad
wick and Ssofford Giddings: a ccstumer,
made by Harold Bush; a desk. made
by Selden Jones; bookrack, made by
alton Tobey: desk chair, made by
William Raynes: desk. made by Dwight
i.ccus; fern stand. made by Keith Saw
,cl'e. Each of these were we'll made
and attracted no little attention, as also
oid the following articles on display:
Bookracks. made by Alton Tobey, Da-
vid McFarlane, Dallas Armstrong. Har.
CID Stevens and Henry Casavant:
stools. made by Alton Merton and vii.
nam Seller; costumer. Sanford Fose:
1cotoack stand. Samuel Freeman:
study tables, made by Philip Merrill
and Hector Cadarette; medicine cabi.
net made by Everett Harmon: bob.
mace by Alfred Eastman: tleds. made
by Clement Gregoire. Cecil Knowlton
and Everett Harmon: canoe paddles,
made by Ernest Church; woven stool
made by Ernest BaSford,
Manual training is taught in the sixth
seventh, eighth and ninth grades, each
c n: averaging enc hour and a half a
week. The boys have been taught the
at of Gaming chairs and this was DEM
ohstrated at the exhibition by Frank
harrington, Jr., and Parker Robinson
And chairs were on display made by
t;ese two boys, and also by Hugh Chad
WICK. Romeo Toulouse. Leon Lejoie,
' alter Wade. Alton Tobey. Cecil
knowlton. Earl Folsom, Keith Garxide
and Romeo Michaud. A number of bird
houses and bird sticks were exhibited
by pupils of the sixth and seventh
grades. these models in the working
out Of drawings showing the correla-
ton of the drawing and manual train
Ing departments, which is a new feat.
IRE this year.
Mt. frlde. the supervisor, is also the
teacner OF mechanical drawing in the
high school and a good number Of
drawings were on display, among
them being drawing of the front
steps of the High school building and
the furnace crate at the school.
Department Of Drawing
The new features in the depart
ment OF drawing are the map draw
ing. working drawings and commun-
ity drawings, and the poster work
was also especially good. The COM
munity drawing Is a part Of the work
in the primary grades. Each child
submits drawings and the best of
these are selected and pasted on a
background. forming most interest
ing pictures. Among the best of these
on exhibit were a picture Of the en-
ployes of the Edwards mill coming
ont of the mill after work. made by
the third and fourth grades of the
Webster school: fire scene, made by
the pupils of the third grade Of the
Smith school; farm scenes. made by
the pupils of the Cony and Jewett
schools: and picture Of what the
wind does, made by Grade I of the
Lincoln school.
The work in Grade includes the
making of garden books, showing the
correlation with nature study. Along
this line the pupils Of Grade 5 made
cdStOIhS OOohss 0IuuC VII u UOVho,
and Grade 5. tree books.
A very attractive model Of a Japa-
nese villa was shown by the pupils
OF the third grade. Lincoln school.
the effect being completed by small
Japanese lanterns. made by pupils of
Grade 4. The work of making mod
els Of brushbroom holders and {: Try
ing them out. was exhibited by pu-
pills of the fourth grade; of woven
baskets. by pupils of the fifth grade.
The work of Grades 6, and s cor
related with the manual training de-
partment in the making of working
drawings for bird sticks and bird
houses. The first working drawing
to scale is taken up in Grade 8, this
being shown in the drawing Of a plant
stool.
In the ninth grade the first use is
made of the drawing instruments. the
r square and the triangle, a number
Of excellent interiors being exhibited.
The work Of drawing maps. free
hand, by the pupils OF the sixth. sew
enth and eighth grades, deserves es-
pecial mention. Object drawing from
the fourth grade up was also exhib-
tied.
War posters. made in the seventh.
eighth and ninth grades. In the fall
before the signing Of the armistice.
were especially attractive and the let
tering was particularly praiseworthy
The correlation between the depart
ments Of physical training and draw
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