School Notes
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School Entertainment
Friends and patrons of the school
will be interested to know that an
entertainment is planned for the after
noon of Sunday, May 16, for the pur
pose of buying a set of six hundred
geography slides and a cabinet to
' hold them. The slides show views of
every country, and it is expected that
they will greatly reinforce the geog
raphy work of the school next year.
Pupils will sell tickets during the
coming week, and we trust the Cor
dova public to be as liberal in its
patronage as it has been in the past.
Notice to Parents
Dr. Von Zesch has reserved Satur
day, May 15, for cleaning the teeth of
all pupils in Miss Edelbrock’s room.
The office will be open shortly after
9. This work is free of charge.
Cards showing work needed on teeth
have been distributed to all pupils
who had the recent dental examina
tion. Ask your child for his card.
it is planned to give a course in
home nursing next year as part of the
high school work, for which credit
will be given. Arrangements wall also
be made for an extension course to
accommodate any Gf the ladies of Cor
dova who may care for such instruc
tion. It is likely that many will gladly
avail themselves of this opportunity.
Monday afternoon all the pupils met
in the high school room and were
greatly delighted with the showing of
the educational film, “American Cit
ies.” Such enthusiasm is rarely called
forth as attended our initial perform
ance.
It is seldom indeed that a visitor to
the school arouses such interest and
enthusiasm as did Mrs. Morton when
she gave her time so freely to tell the
pupils what she knew of life and con
ditions in China after two years spent
' in the heart of that country in her
work of establishing Red Cross hospi
tals. The pupils plied her With ques
tions, and it is safe to say, more valu
able information and more interest
which will lead to further investiga
tion were aroused than could have
been accomplished by weeks of text
book study. Mrs. Morton expressed
herself as delighted with our school,
and Insisted that she had enjoyed her
self and profited as much from the
day’s experience as we had, she being
one of those great, unselfish souls to
whom it may truthfully be said, “You
bestow and think you are receiving.”
Several framed pictures have been
placed upon the walls of the school
rooms. These comprise copies of:
“The Arrival of the Shepherds.”
“A Helping Hand.”
“Shoeing the Horse.”
“Pilgrims Going to Church.”
“Return to the Farm.”
“Plowing.”
“The Mill.”
“The Shepherdess.”
All are copies of famous paintings
done in sepia, and they not only add
materially to the appearance of the
rooms but are as valuable and neces
sary in the culture of the child as are
good books and music. They were
purchased with part of the proceeds
of our Tag day s-ale.
A very interesting coin collection is
being passed among the pupils for ex
amination this week. The collection
comprises coins from Austria, Bel
gium, England, France, Germany, Hol
land, Italy, Mexico, Spain, Sweden and
Switzerland.
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' Notes by Pupils
(Margaret Foster)
Mrs. Elizabeth Morton, a Red Cross
worker from Pasadena, Cal., soon won
a large place in the hearts of the
school children when she so kindly
spoke to us about her experiences in
China. After she had related some of
her interesting stories, she suggested
that the pupils ask her some ques
tions, which she would anwer to the
best of her knowledge. At first there
was not much response, but in a few
minutes there were hands going up
from all parts of the room. No sooner
had she told them that the pig held
a very important place in the lives and
homes of the people than many ques
tions were asked on this subject, some
of which were rather hard to answer.
Nearly every child in the school house
now knows that a “Yang-poodza”
means “foreign devil,” and that this
term was applied to Mrs. Morton many
times by tfie children in the streets,
if she chanced to do something that
they feared would anger their spirits
k of the air or water. Their supersti
tious ideas are a great drawback to
their advancement in civilization.
Also the pupils can tell you
“good morning” or “good-bye” in Chi
nese, “zow-zow” being the word for.,
“good morning” and “zy-way” for
“good-bye.”
It was very interesting to learn that
Mexican money was used a great deal
in China. One might become quite
rich in exchanging money, because
the Chinese money is constantly
changing as to value as one goes from
province to province,
Mrs. Morton wrote two Chinese char
acters on the blackboard. One of
them said “pig under a roof,” and
means “home.” The other was a
sign meaning China.
The pupils were so interested that
Mrs. Morton was begged to continue
her talk. There Vas great applause
to greet her in the afternoon, so after
listening to some more about China,
and having a reel shown on our new
moving picture machine by Miss
Keever, all agreed that they had
spent a pleasant day.
(Elizabeth O’Loughlen)
The medieval history Class will
have finished their text books by the
end of next week. If we continue in
our present grades none of us will
take the final examination.
This year we are all planning on
reading as many of Dickens’ works as
possible. Individual reading covers
“Dombey & Son,” “David Copperfield,”
“The Old Curiosity Shop,” “Tale of
Two Cities,” “Nicholas Nickleby,”
"Bleak House,” etc.
On the last boat Miss Keever re
ceived a number of blank diplomas
for the graduating classes of each
year. Edna Thawley and John Ross
wog have completed their three-year
course, and the latter has done a year
of post-graduate wmrk.
Miss Keever is also busy in between
times figuring the credits of each Of
the pupils since their entering high
school.
The Palmer pennants for the win
ners of the Palmer diplomas arrived
on the last boat, to be distributed as
soon as the drills have been accepted. ,
Katherine Boyce, Dorris Adams,
Edna Thawley, Elizabeth O’Loughlen
and Margaret Foster were the first
to have their drills finished, and they
will be sent out on the Watson.
(Kathrine Boyce)
Leona Churchill and Margaret Fos
ter were absent last week on ac
count of sickness.
Dorris Adams, formerly a student
of the Cordova high school, left on
the Alaska for her home in Marys
ville, Cal., which is near Oakland.
Many of the high school pupils have
finished their drills in penmanship to
get a student’s certificate, and will
send them to the Palmer company on
the next boat.
(Edna Thawley)
Word was received on the last boat
from the A. N. Palmer Company stat
ing that all the high school pupils
have had progress pins awarded to
them. After all have paid a fee of
2o cents each they will receive their
pins. A number of the students have
their third set of drills ready to send
out for the Palmer method certificate.
Miss Keever is giving all those who
receive the certificate a very attrac
tive pennant with the words ‘ Palmer
Method’' artistically painted thereon.
Our Bird Feast (Second Grade—Miss
Kolbenson)
(Chester Mellison)
We have some suet.
We put it on a tree.
A bird Game and got some of it.
Alfred climbed the tree and put
some suet on it.
He saw a young bird and a big bird.
I like the birds.
They are pretty.
(Alfred Erussard) ^
Miss Kolbenson went to the meat
market the other day.
She bought some suet.
Jack and I hung it on a tree.
Jack hung his on a single tree.
I hung mine on a double tree.
Jack had no visitors.
Yesterday I had one visitor, a cross- -
bill.
; Today I had two visitors.
They were crossbills, too.
They like suet to eat.
They did not find Jack’s tree with
suet on it ye,t.
I am going to move it at noon be
cause the birds could not find it.
(Katherine Schaupp)
The birds will eat suet.
We tacked some up on a tree, and
it is all gone.
(Continued on Paso ®«vea)
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