The Columbia evening Missourian., 1922-05-16
TOY DISPLAY
IS PRODUCT OF
CHILDREN HERE
Exhibit at Courthouse Today
and Tomorrow Shows That
Pupils Are Taught to
Use Hands.
FOUR TABLES FILLED
Miss Bedford, Who is in Charge
Lacks Room to Show All
the Work-Noah's
Ark Is There.

Apparently, the day is over in which
little folks are sent to school to learn tn.
three Rs. The display of handwork and
art subjects from all the public schools
of Columbia is perfect evidence that the
modern pupil is taught TO think with hi:
hands as well as his head.
The work is on display on the first fOor
of the courthouse. today and tomorrow
Miss Catherine Bedford is in charge OF
this work in the public schools and will
have supervision of the exhibit.
Four large tables occupy the center
space and are covered with various dis
plays. Miss Bedford was lamenting the
fact yesterday afternoon, that there was
not more spare, and she was stacking
to- and rocking horses under the table
for lack of proper quarters.
The four doorways are hung with rows
of lanterns. The walls enclosing the cen
ter space are covered with posters Of va
ter colors, series of prints showing the
progress in travel and costumes from diff
ferent countries. The seventh grades Of
Lee and Benton schools have an exhibit
showing model furnished rooms for an
entire house. A particularly attractive
poster on the south wall is made by the
first and second grades of Lee School
and shows myriads of butterflies and Aow-
ers.
One table is devoted to paper weights,
candlestick holders made in imitation Of
polychrome. telephone pads-in short,
everything that could be made from paper
and clay.
Another table is bright with waste-pa-
per baskets of cretonne that have desk
seis to match. Other desk sess are made
OF dark brown cardboard and stencil pat
terms. These were all made by the sew
enth grades from all the schools.
The circus has come back to town at
another table. 1t has three rings with
every kind of animal in captivity. The
figures are all of wood, to be sure, but
they are painted in their proper colors
and are quite capable of standing alone
Mr.. and Mrs. Noah are standing at the
front door of their gray ark watching the
fifty-two varieties of animals pass by. two
by two. The doves still retain the olive
branch in their beaks and survey the pro-
cession from the top of the ark. The en-.
tire outfit was made by the fifth and sixth
grades of the Jefferson School. 4
In an open house may be seen Golden
Locks fast asleep in the house of the
Three Bears while the owners inspect
their porridge howls down stairs.
Robinson Crusoe, dressed in a suit of
fur, lives in perfect ease in a log hut. His
goats are grazing in an adjoining field.
Robinson is surrounded by all his tools
and baskets and belongs to the pupils of
the Eugene Field School.
Adjoining this is the Japanese tea gar
den made by the third and fourth grades
of Benton School. There is a tea house
protected by hower-covered lattices. Two
linrikishas carrying two fair japanese La.
dies and drawn by boys, have stopped to
rest at the foot of dainty little bridge.
Scattered around are sunbonnet babies
that walk at the end of stick, balancing
dolls, squirrels that eat nuts, and many
birdcages.