H ‘ the purposes in view ns———l’rografn ill- icit with Music Avenue Methodist Episco- ilrcb, last evening, to hear about art: of the public schools of the. , ct. The audience was most at- .. tire and appreciative throughout. jib. ngklns. the (hull-mun of the :00! committee, presided and pre- Edwht‘d Cunningham pronoun- liip invocation. (‘ilester H. Ilene tItm.“The Fisher." accompanied ’ttlle piano by Mr. Manviiic. MI. h edict was in fine voice and was ch enjoyed by the audience. After Nifty applause he Iespolldld to an ficot‘o with "l‘lIe AlnI‘IouIeI Mr. Hawkins then introduced the speaker E. H. Culnllalt, who was resolved with ‘ kindly applause by the audience. I.Mi'.‘Gumbart‘s address consisted of , a levlow of the growth of the schools Inf-over one hundred per cent. in num- . , hers. pf,the growth or school property , from one slx room building with an (indebtedness of 310.000. to him eight "roomlbulllllngs without a dollar of ill- .“d‘ebtedneés. He also rcvltwel the im- ’pt‘ovefnents in teaching, IlIIIlII'ng. mu- jlic and physical culture. Mr. Gumbart also made an explanation of the mod- era methods in teaching reading and Ht- mentioned the work of the school committee, and "1",allu'deji‘l to the good spirit among the teachers and pupils. , Following the address Miss Loretta , D. .‘Ain'sworth . sang .most acceptably. "The. Quest." by Elinor Smith. She was heartily eucored and sang again. giving Ethelbert Nevins' "Mighty halt a Elise." After furthel applause the audience dispersed and appreciative comments were heard on every side. Mr.'f}unlilartIsaid in part as toiiows': Good friends: Before i say anything about the schoolsl want to insure my- ..seli against (me criticism. Some peo- ‘ pic may say about the thoughts that l ,. present. "Well, that‘s only Mr. Gum- , bart's view."' People sometimes say that to me when they wish me to change my opinion about some matI\r. , But, you see, i can only honestly give , my Own view The school question is too large for any one person to see it all from one standpoint. ' A ’few days ago someone asked me what'was the diff IIIIIIIIII between it tad- pole and a pollIIIog. too if” know the curious ‘iittle creature which has .the'ae quecl names. (in looking into “The history of those words. i found that oil) are colruptlolls. 'l‘udpolc is sholl- ned from tool and pull. Poll is an oidiEngllsh word which means head: “Vin our \\'0l'fi poll-tax. It tax of so much per head. Then toad—pole means . a crehtnre made of’ bill little besides a hgati‘ghut 1101328 to become a toad or “ratifies is shortened from poll. , mo'aning ll head just as in tadpole; and g or wiggle which stands for the j'wlgg'llng tall Now you see that the ecreature is meant by these two me It depends upon your point of ‘ view. as to with ll you will use. Do you "soothe beginnings of the toad? Then Itlte-ércatule is a tadpole, Do you see ,- head with .a wiggling mu? Then your specimen is a pollywog. boon youtwlilidlscover that those are only two iows'of the same thing. i with the school question. Your . view-"ma . be right. blIt so may mine. i its t ink the subject over tonight. and afterwards. and see if we cannot ’all discover the best way to work for the fullest and richest education of the. children in this community. , ,, The present principal took charge df gchooia- in East Norwalk in Sep- li'er, .1889: so the coming full will efigures for comparison to show findvances made in fifteen years. I? it deemed good just now to offer magpie of this community some re id of the changes which have come, . the present time hen often betel-e been in my mind «mil what work the schools have wwhat the citizens have done fig present occasion has slowly into being through several talks some of our public-spirited men men, and through the courtesy aster and ,OmCial board of this In. like this opportunity to snowman Cunningham and of his people for their .3th! toward the schoois. _-t The church has ‘always‘ lead menu of learning, I IT ’I the quiet student: You _ ,_ . East “Avenue ICliurch a farce curiosity and a urge Mfiim ‘Add as I I'm“ .. never} good work. ind" someone i feel sure working in hermit! with ,. . 0f ,stiiis Milli!!! him 1! thunk it ill? first « I schools we intend the Hit three hundred children? in the district together with of children from the town , . his last. number, . t line in t title, but .Wte it re ‘ ’I ty HomIfor’delnmte an: on Woupprt with” you have something worth brag- wabont if hm is ever silo: pol nfinyrifi submit": all. mrofibcwmm 0le c you , W almost every school pnp-: 'free of indebtedness they last gasp for .. "Md March, 1903. nineteen pupils finished our gralnmur school coulse, and most of these entered the South bierwalk High School. in February, 1001f we sent fivo pupils to II partial high schpoL elite. and we are now preparing a class of twenty more to take examine.- tious for high schol entrance ill Sep- tcmber. i call attention to these figures so that we may fairly estimate that a con« siderable number of upper class pupils have been transferred from our schools. Remember, also, the loss to ollr numbers through the tramfor’pf pupils to the (‘ounty Home. Now. in spite of all these withdrawals during the fall of 1003. we entered 596 names upon the registers here in East N01- walk. The schools opened on the very first morning after Labor Day with 630 chil- dren. it was plain that the primary classes IIIust be reorganized and a new room opened. in doing this we threw alvay the names of some eight or ten pupils who only stayed with us II few days in September. It i had suspected that we should run so close to six hun- dred names, we might have kept these names of children whom We did actual- ly teach for a short time. it is plain that our school lists have doubled the three. hundred children re- corded in the fall of 1889. and that we have sent out several colonies besides. A large number of new people have moved into the district this spring and every indication for next fall points i0 another increase. in October we shall be able to compare our growth for fif- teen years. and i am confident that we can show more than one hundred per cent of increase. Numbers do not show all the worthy gains made but a community need llf\'lf" be sorry to see its school poplr lutlon increase. Great alarm f0I the future is being expressed ill France to— day, because her school enumeration is stationary or slightly falling off. The old heathen superstition that a man lives again ill his children is not so very for wrong. Every man and wom- an of mature years begins to lose some of the youthful interest and ambition in life, and with no child the sap of life soon dries up. But for a parent. watching the growth and development of ..s IIlIilIl, frI-sh interests take the place of the old ones, and a new joy comes ilito life. in a practical way, too, the increase in school pupils affects the financial ilIlIrests of the community. Six hun- dred children to find homes means about twice as many houses as are re- quired for three hundred. Those chil- dren must be fed and clothed; some- one must work for the funds; some one must carefully spend these funds for the children‘s good. All this means more business. and more families. and more work. and more houses. and more money. And then the whole circle all over again. in that. way a town grows; and we all know that East Norwaik has grown and is still growing at even a more rapid rate than its neighbors. 'What about the school property? it has always been my opinion that the people of East Norwalk were. ready to do what was good and necessary for the schools if only they hall a fair chance to know the needs, and time. to consider how best to meet them an- der all l'iil‘ClllllniullCt‘s. When i first saw the old school building and grounds I thought that this district was ill Il fair way of doing well by Its children. But when i heard that there was Illl indebtedness of ten thousand dollars on the property, 1 de- cided that lilf‘l‘f! was no chance for any kind of success here. No new people. would care to come into a community where the school space was already too small, and carried all indebtedness for more titan it was worth. it seemed too bad that ll district with such a favor- able lay of land and such proximity to business interests should choke itself to death with a big debt. A good many talks With different people showed that others also held this opinion, Opening the subject with tile members of the school committee,l soon learned that seine of them had reached such a con- clusion. One member said that one of his great ambitions for the district was to pull it out of debt. Other good men took a strong interest. Soon the in- debtedness was greatly reduced. the school house and the play grounds were both enlarged, and a new heating apparatus was set up. The people took a larger interest in the school needs. Offer the school meeting was really crowded. and the citizens wanted to understand all about the schools. Somewhere about 1895, all these inl- provements had been made, and the district uebt so reduced that there was money enough in the. treasurer's hands to pay off every dollar of borrowed money. The tax-payers really 80,! to like the thought that the time was‘ coming when the district would be clear of debt. But in the meantime the school was growing. too. The two‘ additional rooms last built were soon filled up., Outside rooms were hired until one hundred pupils were in Ran< dall‘s Hall. Tile principals office was fitted tip with school desks. and a teacher with her class pllt in there. Still more room was needed, and the people of this district took hold of the problem. They faced the question with that new spirit which meant that they wanted good schools and wanted to pay for them. too. The money in the treasury was used tonal-chase the site for the Marvin school, and the new building was undertaken. The district may well be proud of it, Nothing that l have seen or heard of.~ut anything near the same price. can match it. i have shown the building with great pride to district. town and state 0le cars. Recently a state officer said in reply to my remarks: "Well, that's a building thnt New Haven some be proud of." When I tell these mile the price. they are more ”ml-m but when i add that it was paid for by our district alone, and is practically of.breath i even like to tell that story to people who liver-carer than New Haven. it sounds a little like bragging up one: oiv'n district. but I do think of honesty and manly independence We mint our children to appreciate and enjoy good things but we want them so upright that they cannot en- joy anything which they have not fully paid for. Too many people are ready to wait for chance luck or to use bor- rowod property. rather than set them~ selves to work for what they want. schools? The children could not tell you in words. understand. revised. course was added at the top. from the lowest to the highest class. the class above. All this took time, mtlonal methods must be made slowly and carefully. or else the children may lose some necessary part of their life preparation. By 1892 considerable work had been accomplished, and our first high school class was ready for graduation. Then each year for ten years we graduated a class, lacking only one. Our high school department has fully justified itself. ()llr fifty or more alumni have done honor,to themselves and to the school. of late years the girls who went to normal school had only to say that they came from our school and they were accepted without further question. Our girls have made a fine record at normal, and afterwards as teachers. Three of our boys went to the dental college. and others are ill various lines of business. They too have done well for themselves, and justified their school instruction. The wholesome effect of the high school department did not stop with the pupils who graduated. Many chil- dren got some start for a life interest in seine line of study. it Is a mistake to think: that all the school should do is to teach children what they need for making a living, it is very im- portant to help people to enjoy their lives with satisfaction to themselves allll without annoyance to their neighI bors. . Did you ever see a crowd of young men on the corner indulging in horse- play? Are you ever troubled by rude or noisy people ill your neighborhood? When does that happen? Such (ilfi' turbances of the. public peace come when the shops and factories are clos- ed. The!) a large number of young peo- ple have nothing to do and must work off their surplus energy. The schools are doing much in the way of inter~ eating young people in nature study. gymnastics, good reading. and other lilies of investigation. Alld the people whom this work influences are not the ones who disturb your quiet evening or your pleasant Sunday afternoon. No! The young people whom we succeed in interesting are in the library or the gymnasium: or quietly following some bird to learn its song and its habits oi life: or are working up some otllel matter of interest to themselves with- out disturbing their neighbors. When I take up some suggestions for improvements in our school equipment i want to refer to this again. In this line, as in others. the schools could do better work with some further equip- went. The iligh~30il0l)l work has also inl- proved the tone of the whole. school. It is good for the younger children to see the older ones at work. and to under- stand that both honor and practical ad» vantage result from advanced study As these Eastern States become more thickly populated the boys and girls who want to get on must have a more thorough training, Skilled labor gets better pay and steadler employment tluIn common drudgery, bllt it needs It better preparation, exercises gave our younger pupils a greater desire and respect for the high- er education. In some ways we. have lost by the transfer of the high school pupils to another district. The high school is seldom thought of by the primary or middle classes when the older pupils are not daily before their eyes. in this way some of the good influence is lost. 0n the other hand, much more satisfactory work; and a stronger and healthier ambition is aroused among the higher pupils themselves by being thrown wuh scholars from various Schools and by measuring themselves against new conditions of work. And,- really good high school advantages are too expensive to be set up in half a dozen places at once. One strong well- equipped high school, in a town is all that a wise expenditure of funds will warrant. it is to be hoped that this town will soon reach such II reason- able decision. .At first very little was done in draw- ing, music. or physical culture lll our schools. The easiest to handle was drawing, so that was undertaken first. Almost every year saw some improve- ment in this work. Now we have _a special teacher in drawing, who spends one day in each week with us. She instructs classes and organizes the work in drawing or course she can- not do all that the classes require. Each teacher .glvcs considerable time to advancing and practicing her. class in the work outlined by the special teacher Good progress has been maid and the pupils are interested. Before long we may be able to exhibit some good wark for the inspection of the parents. Drawinghas both an artistic and a practical value. neither of which should be neglected in physlcld training we also have 1 special teacher and the work is car. ried forward in much the same way as in drawing. Parnell“: mistaken flu-u pressiotl exists in some places all to what the physical training is for. To give the children exercise is not its chief lilac. Some pie have hinted to me that the chit ren culling out.“ sch . . hey probably lngnd'ls to work for me public good. ' :By no means least comes impressing And now, what have we done in tho Those who were in the schools III 1890 are out in the world. They don't know what changes have taken place, or else were loo young to in l890 the whole school system was A ocginllers' class, which has since become the kindergarten, was ptlt in below, an organised high school and a carefully planned series of grades led ‘ihe work of each grade was made to fit on to the teaching in the class be~ low, and to prepare for the studies of Changes ill cdu- The high school the name and the sound may be very MW - to the hull-rods. She catches cold she grows din. her head Ic.IelI.- bor broslll ill short. Ehe thinks she suffers be- cause her school work is too hard. She is worried over her examinations. She cannot take the exercises given to her class, Poor child! she must have It vaca- tion. Too bed! She loses a year's time ill school through aloollsil neglect and misuse of her health. You may say that case is overdrawn Of course it Is. it Is by magnifying our faults that we can see them best. But please think over this example. Perhaps a boy lives in your house in- stead of a girl. Pcrllllps be wcurlI himself all out playing baseball instead of jumping rope. Perhaps your boy or girl studios school lessons, or practices music, or does house work between i and ti o‘clock, instead of getting recrea- tlolI olli of doors. Perhaps you may cure that troublesome headache or that Ilervlnls twitching if you insist on prop- or recreation. Now as to the use of physical traili- lug. It seems foolish to say so. but it Is a fact that many people don't know how ‘to willk or how to breathe. Many people never learn to control thell bodies properly. ltl going upstairs or ill lifting some heavy article they let their breath out at just thc wrong mo. ment. With the strain still on. the body collapses. and some serious twist or rupture occurs. Many people use only part of the available lung tissue. while the rest becomes a scat for dan- gerous cheese germs, The physical drill is intended to teach pupils'when and 'how to breathe; how to carry the body and give the in- ternal organs proper room and sup- port: how to control and use the mus- cles tn the best advantage; in fact, how to work the body smoothly uIld cilsily. wltuout jars or strains. illlli without wasting three times the necessary en- ergy. Such training will enable the children ,to live longer. to do more ef~ feIItive work, to be healthier and hap- pier than they could be without it. This has a Inrect practical application. it saves motley and makes money. it saves doctor's bills, time and strength. and it brings larger and surer income ill after years. in singing we have also made some advances. Our class teachers have put in much time and effort, and very good work has been done. This sub- ject. lili‘I‘iQVLl‘ needs a specialist, as do the two just mentioned. To do really good work, to watch the development of the. IIhilIlrcn's voices, to guard against any unwise practice, we now a trained music supervisor. One day a week would give us the necessary guilt ance. and it is to be hoped that oul school board may soon sec a way to supply this lack. in our klndorgartens we have added a valuable help to the school life of the little ones. if you would visit them departments. 1 think you would agree with me that no picasalltcr introduc- timl to school life could be devised This is it real value in itself. liesfdes the kindergarten teaches the children to work and play together ill orderly ways without injuring or molesting cIlcll other. The plays and exercises teach them to obey promptly and care- Iully. and develop the child‘s know ledge of language~ These advantages all too Ivlli known to need iurtlIcI thought in the regular school subjects the methods have greatly IllllIIchl Educa tors agree that the chief subject to be taught to the, iilIle. child is reading lll his early years he can do all the mechanical part of learning to read mucll more easily than at any other age. Of course you see that reading from III,printhi or written page is a purely artificial process. There, is no reason wily the tracks i make otl pap- er should have more meaning than those of any other fly. You can guess at what i mean by my tracks because you and l and several million othel people. have agreed to these signs. There is no reason why our word "an pie“ should stand fora certain frllil. The Cilllneso call it something else: tllo Russians call it by another differ- ent name. Tile point i wish to make is that all language. alld especially written or printed language is an in- vention of man for his .own conven- ienco Our children must learn all the signs in order to get the sense of what they read There have been several methods of teaching reading to the little child. There was the old a-b-c method, as dry and tedious as anything ever worked off upon the children. No one has used it for a long time. Teaching words as wholes has been used success fully. Teaching short sentences as Ivholes..or teaching some single letters and some combinations as representing certain sounds. are other useful meth- ods. We are using a combination of these plans. About a hundred easy useful words are taught at sight. The sounds which certain letters represent are then taught. and the child is shown how to combine letters, words, and parts of words. by sounding each part. We teach the sounds of letters and combinations, but for a while at first do not teach the names of the letters. To do so only confuses the child, because different. You would be wearied if I should speak of the changes in every subject. I will speak of one other general ten- denc. Careful investigation showti mor and more clearly that a child‘s ideali are very imperfect. He takes hold of only part of want you tell him, or hie gets some vcrv crude notions. Thlsi leads teachers to "salt the children to tell over again what ideas th y have gain from II. lesson. Then th . er' ‘ s the child‘s imperfect thought and corrects it. Other forms of ex- pre loll are also much in use. Some teltc era ask the pupils to write about the matter to. draw illustrations. to slmpl’e designs or patterns. This kin of work is very useful. but is porn times carried to excess. . Once up- on time I teacher asked, her class to enough 91- I l rpte them of "The Old Camille Blu One little boy drew three fair - veil-clog and I group of dots The teeth pointed to the first circle m. needs: then the power to go to work school and building committees. 'lhe business of the district is carried on by three citizens elected to the com- mittee. Besides, at different times, we havo had spclsl committees build or remodel the school houses! These men get no pay for their serv' vices. Sometimes they have very IIII- comfortable duties, The state law rec» ognizcs this for it provides a fine if a citizen refuses to act on the school “.Iomittee You have been served by a score or more of good citizens. They give their time and then energy and .poople seldom think that they deserve any thanks. let our committees have but considerable effort toward forward- ing the best interests In ollr schools. These men are entitled to our best coll- siIlerallon and thanks. i am glad of an opportunity to say this publicly. ill the Marvin building we have It finely equipped school. The ii‘ilt‘il building is ill fair shape, out some changes would make the children much more comfortable. last year the grounds were improved by some grud- ing and this year i think the committee will have the building painted. Then for several years the children have set out trees and the school committee have been putting single desks in place of the old double once. The single desk has many advantages. it gives each child the undisturbed possession Tile Alida IcI fill A. J. Collins 8: and delicious lllotloll. lilo ordinary The best ft'oozor ill the world. in simplicity of mechanism. best case of operation and best in speedy Best in results. The Alaska Aerating Dashcr is miles ill advance of anything heretofore producad. spoon shape floats placed at an angle of 15 degrees with the arms that car Iy the wood I.. a... l'i, and motion of contents is in constant The fIIII-zlllg lt'flllil‘f‘ii from two to three and one-half minutes in it has Every 00” family size machine. Prices range front $1. 50 to $3). 75 0. Funeral Directors and Embalmels. l2 to l8 North Main bi. of his seat and desk. desk is a source of much evil. it gives opportullity for the transfer of bad morals, bad manners and bad health from one child to his seatmatc. No child should be compelled to sit day after day beside an evil~nlinded or all unclean seatmute. Before long we shall probably have single desks throughout. All these improvements help. but there are still two or three things which the Pitch School needs. We should have some walks laid so as to make a clean approach to the school house and to the out-buildings in bad weather. if this had been done ten years ago the children would have sav- ed enough ill shoeleather to pay for the work. The ground Is lull of cob- ble stones and nothing can be done except to lay proper walks. Then. we need some shelter for stormy weather. All modern school houses have covered pla,.-I~I.I.lus such as are provided ill the Marvin school. At the lI‘itIIlI school it is necessary to omit recess nearly all winter. That. is a very harmful thing. The children get no relief from the. cramped conditions J! the class roolli, and have no shelter on stormy days until the building is opened. A little planning could easi- ly provide a shelter shed on each side of lilo Fitch school. The one for the girls can be built around the side cu- traucc on the north and should have some kind of roof over a walk to thc outlIIluscs. Running olll in the rain and snow with no walk III keep their feet dry and no roof over their heads Is one reason for so malty colds among the, children. 0n the south side a shelter shell and covered walk can be built for the boys. These two inl- pl'ovemcnts would add greatly to the health and comfort of the pupils at the Pitch school. Besides this. Rooms 1) and F are very poorly lighted. One window glares right into the children's eyes, and should linoloseri up. The other windows are not large enough. Another Improvement would be some arrangement for manual training. i realize that we cannot put any large plan into operation at once. bllt per- haps We. can make a small start. Be. sides its I-Iductltlonul value. manual training has a commercial value. it will also help ill giving our young peo- ple some form of self entertainment. Many boys will interest themselves for hours with a box of tools. They would be more interested and ge: results of some value if they were taught the proper use of each‘tool. " Making bas- kets. weaving mats and rugs. sawing brackets. carefully building a neat box or a chair are excellentforms of physi- cal activity, furnish safe amusement for leisure hours. and are a valuable llclp ill after life. I have no plan really to suggest in this line, but if ,.ou are interested the committee will be glad to get your ideas. With some further thought and discussion we. may find an easy plan for making a small beginning. Altogether We have .m excellent lib tie school system here ill East Nor- walk. A primary department is carried on in each building so that the little child- ren need not go far to school. At pres- ent all the sixth and seventh grade pu- plls go to classes in the Fitch school and all eighth grade pupils go to the Marvin school. As the larger classes come up higher ill the grades, we shall start a sixth grade in the Marvin school. and later on a seventh grade. We have. a splendid spirit in our schools. Our boys and girls are proud of their work and of their schools. They can do as many things and do them as well as the pupils in other places. Our graduates, our high school clasoes. and our grades can match any other pupils from other schools. and can often outdo the others. The old double . Sbuth Norwalk. n... a.“ w lRl’llllG Locxwoon' & co. COAL .COAL BEST LEHlGH COAL is the only kind we handle. COAL We have on hand a large supply of choice. fresh mined co al, of the finest fracture, frcc frOm slate and screened clean. “$6.00 PER TON delivered In your bin." "NUMBER 2 NUT $4.75." Prompt delivery, Competent Drive rs. Clean Coal. Georges Creek Bituminous at an attractive price. Fresh burned charcoal pot in ha gs ready for the. stove. l22-124 WATER STREET, _ Brenna Offices—2 South Main Street, South Norwalk; 9 Main 8h. Norwllk . ‘ . ...I I up I I . 11.x.“ TELEPHONE 31.5. HM.-- ._..L-.._- ... w... - ........ “a... . ROTON POINT NOW OPEN HOTEL AND RESTAURANT Under the Management a! A. J. Smith and J. 5. Kelly SHORE DINNERS. CLAMBAKES. £70.. A T POPULAR PRICES. WILL BE_ A SPECIALTY. Excursions, Music and Dancing to fill up any event. sideboards, IleltII enameled bcds. all your coal bills. cheaper now than it will be, not. as rushed with orders as we will be, and you'll be on the safe side in Remember the long strike and take our advice to buy now. PRICE FOR WINTER OR SUM- MER $6.00 PER TON. NO CHARGE FOR CARRYING IN. E M. TOLLES&C0 YOUR EVERY FURNli‘URE WANT can be satisfied at our store. We have been ill the business for more than >l0 years and have had it pretty good opportunity to study the dis- eliminating tastes of the. people of Norwalk and South Norwalk. Our stock is new mom larger than it ever was before and every atticle is of the latest. and most up to date pattern. bound to attract you. as every article is sold just as low as possible. Among the latest arrivals in our furniture family are It new stock of IIilifl‘IIlIlI.Ir.I-'. ’ carts. porch chalrg, steamer chairs and other summer furniture. Raymond and Son’s 46 and 48 Main Street. Nurwalk: _ . ._-._ .__. . Now’ 5 Your Time. l Coal is we are . The prices are brass beds and go- These boys and girls will make better Opt The Habit HABIT l. the strongest impulse in man. and your future welfare and prosperity is assured. now is to spend too freely. You realize that It ll 3 bad thing and would liketo overcome it. Big fortunes had small beginnings. where we desire to interest you. One single dollar constitutes the fund. necessary to start an account with us. The saving habit will grow and so will your bank account. WE PAY 4 PER CENT. ON ALL DEPOSITS. Falrflald County Savlngs Bank 51_Wall Strut. Martyn”! Get the habit of saving Maybe your bnblt Right here it neighbors and better citizens because of the education you have provided for them The teachers, too. are working in an excellent spirit. Their aim is to gch these young people an equipment that , will be valuable to them. in life We are working for power in the children. We wish to fit. them fer clear thinking and ready execution. Those are the faculties that succeed in life; the pow- er to sce.throngh the needs of a situa- tion and to plan for meeting those skillfully to carry out the plans. Each has had a part in building up this good little system. The people who stay away from the school meet- ing have missed n chance to help in that way. but all find help by forming a clear public opinion Every school has some faults and every teacher make some mls . But don't hurt thecblldreu b‘III sitting" them best: a sharp criticism wheel. Come up and talk with some the. See the school committee. or the teacher, or the prin- and suited; , . what is out?" t'II this old ' T ditch.i 2"?” ’n hat,” llid hf gifts tench help us along. clpal; tell your side and hear the oth. er. site a friendly suggestion to outside, tell people bow mode you are of your school, and how you mean to am them nttlhbsttor. - ill-rt Nor- m h . d i Suits, est styles. Walking Skirts, 82 .50. north double the price. ' Children' s Dresses -5c up. A very nicIl white Lawn Dress, made in the latest style. trimmed With embroidery sizes 5 to 14 31. 25. A Near Silk Skirt i'or 50c. A very nice line_ of Shirt Wulsta. made in the latest styles. Please give us In call nnd convince y.ourlelf . » . 66 Wagblpgion All this season' s goods. w CONCRETE. , ASPHALT. e greatest bargain ever offered 85. 00. worth $11.00 St.,, 50. Norpalk Ct. CEMENT WE HAVE AN EXPERT FORE" AN FROM I910 CHARGE OF LAYING THE WALKS, ANO CAN IN, FOR THE FlNIIYEl-fi“ ,OF WORK The Fair Cloak and For Store, Special Salel . Brilliantlllo Skirt. $1.50 up. .$_, The lat- .. -1 FLAG. who like ' upon
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