Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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inane.-sm--swf-M-lM.,.,,,iy Rf W' ki ..,4,L.. wk-Eng iirliginun I hnmiinn Aw, come on an' go with us. We're goin' to start at 4:00-right after school. You can get over to Bancroft in time if you'll hurry. ' No, if I did that I'd have to miss Church School -that doesn't close until 4:15 and .besides that I am to beat the triangle tomorrow. Miss Garretson, the lady that wears a black dress with a little white on it-I 'bout forgot what they call her-Oh, yes! a dea- coness-well, she Said I Could, and I must be there. This was Joh31'S emphatic refusal to a pressing invitation from Dick, a sixth grade boy of Bancroft School, to join the members of Dicks gang on a hike the next afternoon. John was from the same grade in Horace Mann School and was most fortunate in being one of the pupils in Kansas City's first Week- Day School of Religious Education. lxZ7l

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ished. Each child was given a tooth brush and the drill began in earnest with more or less awkwardness, but nevertheless, the teeth were cleaned. Each week there was planned something extra. Once it was a trip to the museumg another time a treat of pop corn and cookies and for many this was the first time they had ever sat down to a table to eat. Then came the big treat at the end. First, there was the long car ride with a great many exclamations of Oh I and, This is going to be my house when I get big- Then the trip through the park with its long stretches of green grass, many large trees and beautiful flowers, all of which were new to the children. The Zoo was a place of wonderment to them. This outing ended with a big dinner, which was ravenously devoured. D. V. B. S. comes in mid-summer with all its heat, but, because it is a Bible school and we are bringing to God's little ones helpful things of every day living, it is easy to forget the heat, and we will be glad when Vacation Days come again. -1-T- WHAT WOULD K. C. N. T. S. D0 WITHOUT Vera Krepps singing in the hall? Esther Baab's giggle? Vera Cleland's Lectures on Christian Science? Mary Greenawalt's Naps in class ? Eliza's good biscuits? Laura Galliers' patches? The Senior Quartette? Mae Greer's noise? Miss Mary F. Smith's So-Lows? Miss Hanson's pep? Miss Cowles' gingerbread? Miss Oltmanns' basket of rags? Edna Rhodes' adjectives? Ruth McDonald's smiles? A REST DAY? Our breadmakers? Mr. Span's faithfulness? Mrs. Carter: Can you write five hundred or a thousand words on the Sunday Newspaper? Miss Hill: Yes, if the margin will hold it. Pge 72 Dr. Jeffrey Cwinding watch! Miss Wallace: I never saw anybody wind a watch like that. Dr. Jeffrey: How do they do it? Miss Wallace: With a crank. Dr, Jeffrey: Do you want to wind it? Suggested-that the -cracks in the elevator be made smaller, so that Miss McCulloch may not lose her possessions. Miss Garretson Cin Biblical Introduction class, just before testb : Miss Hedman, will you return Thanks ? . Miss Pike Cin class in Astronomyl : Miss Swartz, W111 YOu please describe Saturn. Miss Swartz: It's color is large and pale. A seven year old boy telling his father of his visit to the Training School said: The d1n1ng room is like a hotel, and Daddy! I was the only man there.

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Church School ? asked Dick. What's that? Well, it's a school where we learn from the Bible. Pshaw! is that all? Couldn't you miss that? You'd have heaps more fun with us. Why, you don't know what good times we have at Church School. I've never heard nothin' about it. It must be some school if you'd rather go there than go with us. What kind of good times do you have anyhow? Tell me 'bout it. , Well, we are dismissed from school at 3:00-I mean our grade and the fifth grade is. We play ball or somethin' for ten minutes, then the bell rings and we form in line and march by three's over to, that church that is about a half ta block from Horace Mann. My, the first day there was a bunch of us-180! We lined up outside the church and had our pictures taken. You see it's the first Week-Day Church School they've ever had in Kansas City and I guess we're an impor- tant crowd. Mr. Settle made a speech to us that day. Say, but he's great! It'd be lots of fun to go camping with him sometime. Who's he ? Well, he's Secretary of the Kansas City Sunday- School Association, my father saidi and he's back of the whole thing. If it wasn't for h1m we wouldn't be having Church School. You haven't told me yet what you do after you get there. First thing, we march into the church, continued John, one of us boys always goes over early to keep time on the triangle. I get to do it tomorrow. Then we have our worship service. And say, it's fine! They've taught us a lot of new songs-or hymns, the Page 74 ,.,-sand.,-each week we-have the same lesson we had in teacher calls them. They're not so fast and jerky like some of the songs we sing at Sunday-School, and we like to sing them lots better-especially when the teacher explains to us what they mean. We've learned the Ten Commandments and after we say each one we sing a response-I like to say 'em that way. We have two big flags--the American flag and the Christian flag. I never saw the Christian flag before. It stands for Christ and His Kingdom and we salute it too. Oh yes! and we've learned a Bible salute. An' most al- ways they tell us a story, they know what kind of stories we like too. 'That doesn't sound much like a school. Don't you have to study anything? Study! I should 'say we do! We study the Bibleg Sunday School the- Sunday before-the Graded Lessons. But we learn a lot of new things about the story. We'd never have time to do in Sunday-School all the things we do in Week-Day School. And say! I never thought the Bible was such a good book to study. At first it was a little hard, but the teacher helped us to under- stand all the new words and the hard verses 5 and now I'd rather read it than any book in our school library. They're most awful particular about us bringin' our Bibles. I always just leave mine there because I'm liable to forget it and you miss out terrible on the lesson if you don't have one, and excuses are something else they're particular about. If we miss we have to bring one, just like we do in Public School. Then, the best part is that .we make maps, do paper cutting, draw and all kinds of things. Course, it's always something about the lesson. And we al- ways have prayer before we go. It's a school and yet somehow the teachers make it seem like -church.