Perth Amboy evening news., 1923-04-17

been studied during the year under
the direction of Miss Kimball and
Mrs. Danenhower. This department
has beLn represented at all the art
exhibits and receptions in New York.
and the club contributed 20 the
penny act fund through the art de-
partment.
In March a program of famous
paintings In tableaux with interpre-
tative music and dancing was given.
Prizes are to be given in the high
school and grades again this year for
greatest improvement in art work.
| Civic art has been stimulated by the
| purchase Of trees which will be
! planted in the city park. Mrs. NJ. G.
Armstrong has charge OF this work
| and under her capable management
the department is planning to plant
| memorial trees for the local soldiers
| and to restore and protect the shade
trees of t. city. A subcommittee
has been appointed with Mrs.
| Charles Seguine chairman which will
take charge of the National Garden
| Week campaign.
Home Economics
Mrs. Leo G~oldberger, chairman OF
has undertaken for its work the
| providing OF school lunches, con
| sisting OF milk and graham crackers.
In order to proceed 1t was necessary
to ascertain h number of children
| undernourished and with the presI-
dent, the chairman appeared before
the Board OF Education for permits
sion TO weigh the children, which
| consent it gladly gave and promised
| to cooperate. A meeting was call
ed Of representatives of several
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| and a nutrition council was formed
consisting OF Miss Jane Packard.
Miss Nielsen and Miss Blocker of
the Middlesex County Ant-Tuber-
culosis League. DIR. Charles l.. Silk,
repi esenting the Board of Health,
Miss Borden OF the Red Cross. Miss
Milheis, school supervisor; Mark
Letter principal of school No. 8; DIR.
William London, child specialist:
Mrs. G.. Jones, Mrs. j. Ware. Mrs. Z.
Smith, Mrs. Mosher and Mrs. Leo
Goldberger. representing the Wo-
mails Club. We set about 10
School Z, number of pupils weighed
and measured, 44s; underweight 8
per cent or more, IS. underweight
z or 8 per cent A; underweight, I
per cent or more, 11.9; per cent Of
children z per cent DR. more undec-
weight, 26.9; per cent of children .
percent or more underweight, 16 Z.
School Nc. q: Number of pupils
weighed and measured 585; 8 per
cent or more underweight, 105; I
per cent or s per cent underweight.
81: z per cent or more u~nderweight,
l56: per cent OF pupils z per cent
or more underweight. 26.7; per cent
of pupils 8 per cent or more under
weight, Is.
While school lunches are in them-
selves beneficial to an extent, yet the
desired results are not attainable
unless a plan were adopted whereby
the physical improvement of the
children might be recorded. With
this in view, another appeal wa
made to the Board of Education
for the employment of a nutrition
worker to do what Is known As
visits to children who do not i'm
provs and gain. We hope to be sue.
cessful In obtaining this help.
On April 10 we formed a class OF
twenty-five most under nourisheo
children taken from the third and
fourth grades of School Q first hav'
! ing interviewed seventeen mothers
who after the idea was explaines
to them cheerfully agreed to CO.
operate. April IL the first schoo.
lunches were served. the children
paying five cents for the milk
actua- cost. crackers and straws be.
ing supplied from the club fund.
Hostesses and Ushers
Mrs. J. /. Davidson, chairman Ct
the hostesses and ushers reported
that during February the ushers
held a card party In the Rar.tan
Yacht Club for the benefit of the
club charity fund 500 was realized
and was divided in this way: S25 70
the Student Council. $25 for the nu-
triton work in the public schools,
s25 to the Home for the Aged. and
the remaining $25 was given to the
charity fund.
Industrial Social
Mrs. Peter Schott, chairman of
industrial and social conditions, re-
ported that there were two bills
the federation endorsed, the Might
Work bill' and the Domestic Rela-
ton Courts and in which Mrs. Helen
". Simmons, chairman of Industrial
and Social Conditions recommended
that we get our club members in
terested. The bill for might work
was finally passed.
Program Committee
Mrs. Nathaniel w. Pierce, chair
lIldl VI THO piO6tdlh COlltLlAllCCs gave
the following report: In planning
the club program this last year the
returned questionnalres were of the
greatest assistance to the program
committee. So many members show
ed their interest in their club by re-
turning these papers fully made out
. hat 1t proved to be a most worth
) while innovation and the program
, this year has been largely your own
; decision. In response to the question
as to whether we should spend fifty
: per cent of our club fee for the pro-
gram only three were returned
marked mo" But we really spent
$598.05, which is SO per cent, but
OF course this So per cent IF our
/ membership fee, not of our total re-
, ceipts. These qu~estionnaires caused
: a. few changes in our time honored
: customs. We omitted the children's
day as a part of our regular program
: because of a vote of 60 against il
: and IL for il showed the feeling OF
he club.
Guest night also was a departure
from our usual course in hat it wa;
held in more commodious quarters
of the high school auditorium and
dancing was an added feature. Be-
aus of 81 votes for current events
and only two against, we listened tc
the splendid lectures by Cora Welles
Trow and Glenn Frank, editor of the
Century Magazine. Mrs. Lenore
Tomas gave a lecture along these
lines but spoke largely of New York
issues. The lecture Of Glenn Frank,
although costing 500, seemed to
satisfy the entire membership and