The Dallas express. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1893-1970, 1920-10-23
THE PAIRIE VIEW STATE NOR
NAL COLLEGE EXHIBIT AT THE
STATE FAIR
The Industrial Departments Repre-
scented, The Work Credit, The Work
of Iron In The symbol of Civili-
zntiOn-
nv N. Nv. Harllee.


BY N. w. Harllee.
The exhibit of the Prairie View
State Normal at the visitors are de-
lighted with it's execution. Every
year this exhibit marks a new fea-
ture in the handicraft and the adj
vancement of the manual dexterity
Agricultural Exhibit.
The agricultural is small but 1t Is
unique in quality and excellency. and
Is evidence OF what brains and train
farmer is plodding in his embryonic
stages. Nothing more interesting tc
the writer than the farm products
for 1t Is from the soil that the young
Negro must seek his greatest achieve
ment. He who makes two blades OF
grass grow where formerly one grew
is called a benefactor, what shall we
call one who makes one acre produce
thrice as much 1t formerly produced
and with less labor?
Canning Industry.
The demonstrators have carried the
canning art to the farm, and the ex-
hibit shows that we may have fresh
vegetables while the biting frosts
and the dire SHOWS are hiding the
grounds. The exhibits in the canning
department are praise worthy. and
show both skill and industry. There
for the boys and girls who are not
In the schools, and more of It fol
the grown-ups on THE various farms
Make the farm life worth while
The Home Economic Department.
The Home Economic Department Is
feature that opens real work. real
work of the housewife ARTICLES that
tn housewife should be familiar with
in her operations, and care, the
brooms. the tin cans. the vessels OF
the kitchen. and the like. all now
call for skill along many lines. RAJ
fia-worlS is not out of the place In
the kitchen this too, marked pro-
gress in the smoothness and execution
in minute details.
Domestic Art Display.
The skirts, the display of middies
the embroidery, the hemstitching. the
button hole-work, all exhibited care
and painstaking reflecting credit
alike to both student and teachers
The hats for ladies and misses trim
med and delineated, show precision
and neatness as the hats in the hat
terry in tn first class stores. decor
ating the show windows. Our girls
are learning the essentials Of the
home, the,future housewives ought to
rnark a new departure with the pres
emit advantages offered these girls.
Shoe Department.
The shoes In this department. are
model of neatness and utility. and
all modern footwear artistic and
BEAUTIFUL a pair OF DOOtS was crew
erly made, showing that the maker
had been correctly trainede Here too
as in the department the work &C
complished was modern.
The Printing Department.
The work of the student-apprint-
lists. was very flattering. containing
visiting cards. advertising, samples
of job work was of splendid design
Men And boys Hats.
Prairie View Hat making depart
ment leads the entire south in this
industry. and WEI cannot say too
much of the efforts of Prof. Ewell
in making the department a success
in visiting the north and east in
search Of the latest models and plac-
ing them at the disposal of the boys
of the schools and Of the state Many
persons including the Governor OF
the state speak of this hat industry,
and the quality of the hats made at
Prairie View Industrial College All
roads lead to Rome. may yet be
changed to all roads to lead to hat
terys of Prairie View.
Black Smith Department.
The exhibit in this department
ranged from cold chisel to modern