Indianapolis Times, Volume 36, Number 266, Indianapolis, Marion County, 19 March 1925 — Page 16

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Serious Minded Youth of 1896 Gives Way to Lighter Age

Manual High Sewing Teacher Recalls Time of Own School Days When Three Rs Still Held Place at Top of List. By RUBY WEIL Back In the days when readin' and 'rltin' and ’rithm£tic were atill the basis of civilization, when grirls wore pompadours and movie censorship was unnecessary because there were no thirty seriousminded young men and women put their high school diplomas away for safe-keeping or framing and started out to make the world a better place# Oh yes. they were serious-minded, those graduates of the class of January, 1896, at the Industrial Training School, now Manual Training High School. Their minds were on their readin’ and ’rltin’ and ’rithmetlc. In fact, there wasn’t a great deal else for them to be on, in those days. “We didn’t learn as many things as the children of today learn,” Miss Anna Schaefer said today. "But what we did learn we learned more thoroughly. Teaching Now “We didn’t have so many outside activities to take our minds from our studies, and we thought less of frivolity.” , Miss Schaefer was a member of the June, ’96 class at the Industrial Training School. In 1903 she returned to the school as a teacher and has been there ever since, teaching sewing. As she sat in her classroom, watching her pupils labor over the intricacies of French seams and tucks, she went back to her school days In her mind. As readin’ and ’rltin’ and ’rithmetic formed the center of education, so the home, church and school were linked in the minds of the younger generation as closely as the movie, automobile and dance hall are linked, according to the more pessimistic of the observers, in the minds of today’s youth. Few Shows School filled the day, and school work filled much of the night—but not so much that needed sleep was lost. The church took care *of social activities. Physical welfare was furthered In gymnasium clubs, which A Puzzle a Day Two men, who were going on a camping trip, decided to combine their funds and buy an automobile and a r.< nplete camping outfit. The flr? man said to the second: “Give me two-thirds of your money, and I will buy the automobile for |6OO. Then you will have enough left to buy the camping outfit.’’ The second man replied; “No. Let me have three-fourthsi of your money; then I will have enough to buy the automobllle, and you will just have enough left to purchase the camping outfit.” What was the price of the camping outfit? Ijsst puzzle answer:

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On Jan. 29,1896, the third gradual u>g etas# of Manual Training High School, pictured above, held its commencement exercises. The man seated at the right is the late Charles E. Emmerich, founder of the school The first woman at the left in the second row from the top is Miss Violet Demaree, teacher. The class roll included Hannah Anderson. Charles Boaz, Clara Rohnstadt, Frank Carson. Edna CUppinger, Edith Conner, Edna Dellett, Clara Dippel, Laura Ftaebout, Agnes Herd, Alice Hill, Bessie Hunt, Delta Kemper, Hattie Kersting, Henry Laser, Margie Maline. Pella McPherson, Emma Mohs, Horace Moore, Harry Rasmussen, Egmont Sander, Charles Simpson, Bernice Smith, Robert Smith, Mabel Stilz, Maggie Toole, Wilfred Vestal, Daisy VVallett, Eva Walters and Katie Ward.

also contributed somewhat to the social life. The home was the firm foundation. . As for the rest—- " There were no movies, no automobiles, few dances, and few shows," Miss Schaefer recalled.

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to keep us out night after night.” Nor was the tlngaling-a-ling that rings in the modern ear almost constantly, with its associated “Number, please?” so familiar then. v’Telephones were not used much,” Miss Schaefer reminisced.

That brought her to one of the problems of today’s high school students who, she feels, have lost, along with their interest in readin’ and ’rltin' and ’rithmetic as their chief subjects; the respect for nome and teacher, and the serious out-

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Miss Anna Schaefer Sees Movie, Telephone and Auto Crowding * Studies Into Background in Mind Jf Students. Then there’s this matter of respecting their teachers. Back in the nineties, It just “wasn’t done” for a atudent to make impertinent remarks to a teacher. “The whole class would have bben shocked for a week at the way some pupils talk every day to their teachers now,” Miss Schaefer said. "We had, I believe, more reverence for both home and school, parents and teachers. “The teacher, in turn, had more close contact with her students, be cause there were not so many of them. She knew more about their home life than the teacher of today can know.” She was, in fact, Miss Schaefer said, more nearly a “mother” to her boys and gitis, who took their troubles and triumphs to her more easily than they do now. Pennies Counted A modern teacher would have a hard time listening to all the troubles and triumphs of her numerous broods. This school "mother” knew her children intimately. She knew they didn’t have many pennies to waste. “Even if there had been many things on •which to spend our allowances. we would not have had nearly so much to spend as do the boys and girls of today." Miss Schaefer pointed out. “Some of them seem to have lost all sense of the value of money and respect of property. Not All (iood But it was no bunch of "goodygoods,” solemnly marching from class, to class, mournfully passing the time of day and gloomily reciting its perfectly -learned lessons — was this class of 1896, or any other of the classes of that period. Nor were all its members models of deportment. Far from it. “We had our rowdies, too,” Miss Schaefer remembered. “I suppose every class has those.” For that matter, the situation among the young fblks of today is far from hopeless, Miss Schaefer thinks. But she admits there are “problems.” And she admits she does not know how to solve them. But she is trying to help in the solution, at the school that has meant so much to her.