| Show recess period cornbread and sometimes and other In 1897 the kinds new the children exchanged their of jam sandwiches three-story red brick Public graham School bread building for was completed and for the first time all the eight grades were housed in one With the bringing together of so many children it seemed there building was need for more regimentation and stricter discipline The school day began about00m with the ringing oflarge bell in the tower of the school building that could be heard all over town It wassignal to be up and moving About entrance five of the handle which signal for west minutes building allowed the to nine and the rang him to swing ends of the school The children stood Principal smaller the west child marched in giving four abreast one walks wooden in rigid doors and the others who was late getting in Then he or she reported the This outside had the wooden This was the on the east and building the first grades first Part of the classes marched through the east double doors line had to stand aside until all had to the Principaloffice where he was say to Needless late he was why reason rows The next day he had to bring an excuse from givenpermit to enter class home appeared directions the wide and consecutively up to the eighth grade through bell it in many up on line to children school there not was tardiness much The children hung their wraps on the Tong rows of hooks just outside of each classroom They sat by flat-topped desks made of wood withlong groove across the top to hold pencils and pens There was an inkwell on the right side Three or four desks were fastened together with Tong runners Underneath the desktop was place for books and on either side held the paper and bookshelf The Mathilda inkwells had were source to be careful of some to keep papers in place unpleasantness her cast in long black braids felt Tike leaving the iron class in front piece room of her as quite often the freckled-faced boy who sat behind her would put the end of the braid down Onnumber the ink bottle of occasions Mathilda ink bottle went flying past her toward the front teacher who somehow had Tearned to duck at just the ink class to splatter would School be over punished always the blackboard because commenced the with by the singing of favorite songs behind culprit prayer the room when an of the room aimed at the the right time leaving him Many couldn by one be of the times the whole found students followed America Columbia the Gem of the Ocean 11 Paddle My own Canoe and O1d Mother Hubbard is Plucking Her Geese One of Mathildabest liked classes was Geography because she liked making European the relief countries maps with Asia clay She and Africa made maps Another of South class she America liked the was writing across the She wasgood penman and it wasdelight for her to make the push-pulls and thes that went page in such even rows round and round between the ruled lines |
