Show VACATION SCHOOLS 1 1 Thlo Is the season of vacation schools Everywhere they are well attended I which would not have been the ca d I tome years back This Is accounts itr i for by the difference great that obtains day In the education of the Young tn = compared with lesS than a generation itS ago Today every branch of study li l presented In an alluring and Palatable form ao to panic and oven the Schoolrooms school-rooms arc made attractive through lHt medium of highclass art all of which helps to malt school lIfe Pleasanter than I = thOHc days when no such thing as beauty In form or theme was ron rklercd ih a factor of any crpecial I 1 im portance While in the vacation eehoolu the work Is quite In the nature of play the pupils nevertheless learn a good deal that Is practical and beneficial The pastimes do not impose any special tax on their little brains for the studio i are of such a character an will primari ly train the eye and hand and whllo the simple system pursued lends to the I Instructive It Is also disciplinary First i Instituted by the benevolently Inclined women of Boston = school boards soot saw the efficacy of the system and now In many of the large municipalities vacation va-cation rchooln an us important In thcr way an are the regular schools of tho other forty weeks of the year The end of the brief season of few t a W1J that these vacation schools are open flndH the children quite adept In the venous employments to which they were strangers when they flint began to attend The system seems to havo effectually answero1 I the question oC such grave Import a few years back namely what shall he l done with our children oC the densely populated districts dis-tricts during the summer months for there was danger that the Rood effects I of the school year might be dissipated 1 through the Immoral Influences of the street which isor I war the playground I play-ground for most of the cltyc poor Harpera Weekly = n = |