Evening star., 1923-12-02

ana that has made our work worth
while But the real inspiration for
the work is the president of the
organ nization, Mrs Giles Scott Rafter,
who has spent over ten years of un-
tlrinS work for the school children
Of Washington. With such a leader
The work must propsper for she is
truly "a perfect women, nobly
Planned 70 love, to honor and to
command.
Mrs. Albert Baggs. general chair
man for the Christmas sale. will
have meeting of her committees in
the Ebbitt Hotel, Wedne sday at 1890
bow fete will be made and it is
important that every chairman be
present. Each school representative
rs expected to have her entire COM
lnlttee present so that the final
arrangements car be made. Mrs
Willoughby Ches)ey. chairman of
decorations, has completed her plans.
The. general idea is to- have the
e%ior hich Vii be N earried rrS ra,np0m ont IN
IhT different booths: each of which
end will be tov1and, where every
thing dear to the heart of the chill
"ren will be on sale; at the entrance
10 toyland will be two wishing
trees. one for bows and the other for
girls. At the other end of the room
viii he the Chinese tea garden where
the tired visitor can seek rest and
Iefr"$hment. It is the intention of
the chairman to have continuous en-
tertanmtnt IN the tea garden
One of the effective ideas in the
fcte is the hope chest This is a real
cedar chest, which viii be filled with
tie articles eve" CTR collects for the
happy day '"hen she furnishes her
own home. Ms E. W. Patterson has
charge of This feature. and she eX-
poets every school association to con-
tribute at least one article to go in
the chest. Send the contribution to
her at the Gailinger Municipal Hos
pital, 10th and streeSt southeast
The hope chest is just one of the
many unusua! ideas that will bios
som OUT in the crystal room in the
Ebhitt Hotel on Friday and Saturday,
December II and Is. 1t is hoped that
"vnry parent and every teacher in
Washington will remember that the
proceeds from this beautiful rainbow
fete are to be used TO pay the run
ming expenses of our organization
and TO start payment toward
mothers building in Washington,
where visiting mother from any
part nf the world who comes TO the
nations Cauital City can find the
advice and sympathy and help of
other TetherS.
Mrs. Fraser. clothes conservation
chairman. has moved into her new
headquarters and she expects every
school association to select one day
each month when one or more OF its
members ;1 will T.. be in sharEs e., of The The
open from 1920 till ( o'clock every
day. except Saturday. when it will
only be open a half day. 1t will
greatly. help Mrs. Fraser in this
most important work if the presi-
dent of every school associa ton will
write to her and tell her the date
her Cor his) club will be responsible
Il
Fraser, 1000 3 street southwest. and
please do not belay in doing this.
The different items in this column
are for teachers as well as parents,
as we feel that our teachers are a
most vital part Of parent-teacher
work. and we wish that the teachers
would send some of their interesting
ideas to the publicity chairman The
people of Washington are often told
buildings and of the many things
needed to make ours the model
system il should be. but do the
citizens of this city realize that we
teachers. Most of our teachers are
college graduates and they are not
only efficient in every sense of the
word but they have the enthusiasm
their profession to make 1T of real
value. Many of our teachers have
some very clever ideas which the
general public ,should d know. For in
stance, in the Henry-Polk School the
principal has a beautiful silk flag,
which is presented each week to the
room which has the highest percent
age of milk drinkers. Another idea
in this. same school is to pay some
kind of honor to each room where
all of the pupils patronize the thrift
banks. All over the city, teachers
are having little ceremonies of vari-
Gus kinds, so why not let us publish
these interesting little news items?
1t has been said that What you
wish to have in the nation you must
put into the schools" 1t is with
this idea in mind that the thrift
banks have been started in the
schools. The District of Columbia
Congress of Mothers and Parent
Teacher Associations is fortunate in
having for it's thrift chairman Miss
Dilger, the principal of the Brightwood
Park School.
Mrs. L. D. Smoot has recently been
appointed the chairman of Juvenile
protection. Mrs. Smoot is especially
we'll fitted to do this work and the
organization expects to be greatly
benefited by her work.
The December issue of the Child
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