Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1921-12-07

Others welcome s1K played over
the youthful face@ Aerywhere the
welcome was een, and from the
heart.
Teachers Welcome Guests.
The teahcers, too, were glad to
greet the callers. They are human
beings and they nave hearts. They
teach school for Z. living, most of
thens but their pay is meager, and
muchN Of their compensation comes
from the love of their work. Express
sions of appreciation from those
whose little ones they train as they
grow up mean much to these mould
ers Of child life. If the parents
would visit the schools more there
would be more kind words said to the
teachers and finer and deeper appre-
citation of their work.
The class rooms everywhere were
bright and cheerful In practically
all of them pot and box plants were
growing, many of them blooming. In
nearly every window where the sun
shines were brilliant green geraniums
with their purifying perfume; ferns
and other foliage plants. On black
boards were verses of Christmas
songs, and here and there holiday
decorations in the eoIors appeared.
the spirit of the occasion was
forcefully illustrated at the Prospect
Heights school. the visitors were-kind-
ly greeted by Miss Belcher, the teach
er, and the seventeen pupils faces
lighted up as they saw Supt Mathis
and the others come in. To their
chorus greeting Mr.. Mathis asked
them if they remembered little
mental moving picture he had given
them some time ago about lion.
They said they did and in their ans
wers to his questions and his filling
in between the story was unfolded,
of how lion once attacked bunch
of oxen, how they crowded together
as friends and stood with their horns
all down defiantly and the lion skunk
off, but how, later they became divid-
led among themselves and the lion de-
lvUured them separately.
When they were friends they
stood together and were safe," said
Mr.. Mathis to the children, ebut when
they were no longer friends they were
lost. We are here today, these men
and women, from the various clubs
and interests in life, because they
are your friends and they want to
show ycu they are interested in you
and what you do and want to pro-
tect you and help you They want
to help you have good school and be-
come good men and women"
Old Bicycle Shed Classroom.
AS the committees arrived at the
Furlow school Miss Helen Holden,
the physical director, was putting
a group Of boys and girls through
ia series of volley ball stunts on the
playground. The. guests were led
into the annex first. This was built
originally and used as bicycle. shed,
in the rear of the main building. but
the crowded condition of the school.
unexpected when the building was
erected, has made it necessary to fit
this building as an annex and it is
now used as a section of the third
grade, with Miss Hilda johnson as
teacher. Although a bit dark, be-
cause Of dense shade about it. it
makes a fairly comfortable class
room. Here the children were seen
in their spelling lesson, and bright
group of youngsters they were.
Strolling into the corridor of the
main building, the visitors were
greeted by group of picked sing
ers of five from each of the grades.
With Miss Ella Polk, musical director
of the school system at the piano,
the first grade pupils sang verse
Of the carol, "Oh Little Town c-
Bethlehem, ? the second and third
grade pupils took up the second
verse, and the fifth, sixth and
seventh grades finished with the third
verse.
did you notice how the altos came
In on that last verse;" asked Miss
Polk proudly afterwards. "They
were the boys. It is inspiring and
wonderful to see what music does in
the school and see how the children
develop. There is one boy who for
two years was able to sing only in
IA monotone; apparently he couldn't
distinguish cne sound from another.
But now he can carry tune as well
as the next one. He seems to have
just discovered that there is a diff
ference, and his interest has been
aroused. am able to give all of the
rooms only half hour a week each,
there are SO Haany;-I wish could give
them more. But there are drill mu-
sic lessons which the regular teach
ers give nearly every day between my
visits"
Learning Color Harmony.
The next place of interest visited
was the sixth grade room of Miss
Martha WheatIey The fifth. sixth
and seventh grades ~if the Furlow
school are denartnn entaEzed and al