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Show FEDERAL BUREAU PRAISES CHILDREN Washington, Jan. 29. An Interesting Interest-ing story of how tho children of Crazy Mountain schoolhouse, in Montana, Mon-tana, Avon first prize and the blue ribbon for the best collection of wild flowers, pressed and mounted, at the recent state fair at Helena, is told in a statement today by the federal bureau of education. The schoolhouse Is a ten by twelve shack, the bureau says, and is about as poorly equipped as a schoolhouse could be. Yet despite these handicaps handi-caps the' pupils there were nine of them set about to win the prize offered of-fered by the fair for the best collection col-lection of wild flowers. The children plucked the flowers from the mountainsides, lowlands and meadows and placed them in books and magazines. In the absence ab-sence of a flower press they sat on the books to get the necessary pressure. pres-sure. After the flowers had been mounted the entire collection was sent to the state fair, where the judges awarded the Crazy Mountain collection first prize. The Crazy Mountain school is a typical country schoolhouse and there are holes In tho roof and floor. The teacher's desk is a plank nailed to two sticks and set against the wall for support. The children have desks discarded as useless by other schools and they sit on seats that are held up by sticks nailed to the floor or on boxes if they are fortunate enough to get them. Few have books; but they entered en-tered the contest and won and the bureau of education has commended them. . : ntf-A. |