The Brattleboro daily reformer. (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1913-1955, 1922-01-31
VISIT TO TEACHER
TRAINING ROOM
What One Person Saw in New Depart
ment on Trip of Inspection Told
in Entertaining Manner.

During the seventh period last Wednes
day a funny bump came into my heart
which made me long to visit the teacher
training room. so there | went.
! ] peeked carefully around the door
leasing. and seeing no one within l en-
TERED and turned my steps to the right.
| There. on a table. We're a number OF
very interesting books and papers. One
Ipile, consisting of paper dolls mounted on
large sheets of brown paper. representing
various countries. attracted my attention
especially. The II. T. girls had cut out
paper dolls and dressed them in the ma
tional costume of the country that each
doll represented. AS | looked from top to
bottom this was what | saw: y Russian
lady: a Dutch boy with his big trousers,
and a Dutch girl: Il Japanese lady, with
her large kimOno sleeves an Indian war
rior and Indian woman; a Spaniard and
his wife; an Italian lady: a Scotch High
lander. with his kilt skirt: an Arabian,
which made me think of a Jewish priest ;
a Swedish lady: an Eskimo and his wife,
who were dressed so near alike | had t.
study the expressions on their faces to
tell which was the woman: a Pilgrim
father and a Pilgrim mother; and last OF
all a real American school girl.
/ learned later that the above work
is Il correlation of drawing and primary
geography. 1t is to be used as part of
the geography exhibit which will be shown
during the teachers convention to be held
here Feb. = and ,.
y duplicate set is to be sent to Miss
Aagesen. the state Misunderstanding III
SpeCtOr, to be shown in the other conycn-
tiOnS held in different parts of the state.
Turning my attention from the table.
my eyes fell on a certain poster where |
read, How a lead pencil il made" Under
this heading was hung the graphite, which
is black. and has a greasy feeling.-thiS
or - m X y-h
black mark off from cur pencil.-also. the
clay which is mixed with the graphite,
and then the finished leads n plane cedar
Stat; another Slat grooved. ready to hold
the lead; next the leads glued in place !;
then grOOvcd Stat glued over the leads :;
under this We're two hcXagon pencils, half
shaped; below that was a hcXagon pen
Gil; and finally a finished pencil. coIored
and ready to sell. Last of all was The
Evolution of the Rubber Eraser, which
showed changes in eraScrS from the old
fashioned crude rubber to the modern fin
iShed eraser.
Upon turning about. much was my sur
prise to see green grass growing on a
sand table, which seemed almost impos-
Sible after | had nearly frozen ON my
way to school that very morning. | had
"a particular longing to touch some grass
in winter time, but did not dare for fear
would harm their only reminder of
summer.
Leaving this pleasant scenery. | came
to Il long shelf holding between ~ and
100 different books. such as Elementary
Readers and Arithmetics. which | found
out later were given to the T. T. depart
ment by a number of different book firms
When | looked around their daily pro-
gram caught my eye. These were the
subjects that were taken up. sometime
within a week; Physical Training. Arith-
metic Method. Psychology. Geography
Method Principles of Teaching. Pcnman-
ship Method. English Method. Music.
Drawing. Hygiene. including all day
Wednesday to be used for Observation
and Practice in the grade schools of Brat
tlebOrO.
Spying Il piano stool near a respectable
looking Estey organ. | seated myself and
discovered that | had not seen everything
yet. There was a nicely finished wooden
cabinet with glass doors. made by the
high school boys in their workshop. con