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pre-eminently the star features of this department. During the most 

 of the Exposition period, both the schools kept classes of their regular 

 pupils in the model school rooms in this department, doing the actual 

 school work for the education of the deaf and dumb and blind. This 

 work always attracted a large crowd and brought great credit and dis- 

 tinction to Alissouri. 



MODEL RURAL SCHOOL HOUSE. 



"Another important and unique exhibit of the Missouri Educational 

 department was the model rural school house, which stood in a beautiful 

 grove near the Art building. The modern, model, up-to-date rural 

 school house was represented by this neat wooden building, containing 

 a school room, cloak rooms, toilet rooms, basement, all well lighted, and 

 with as good system of water service, ventilation and furnace heating 

 as can be found in any city building. This building is so constructed 

 as to cost but slightly more than the ordinary rural school house, and its 

 advantages were so patent and so highly commended by teachers, school 

 officers and educators who saw it that the Missouri Commission had 

 printed and distributed a pamphlet containing the elevations and com- 

 plete plans, details and specifications for the construction of such model 

 rural school house, and we have the assurances that many of these 

 school houses will be built in Missouri within the next year. The state 

 superintendents of three other states have asked permission to use these 

 plans in the construction of rural school houses in their states, and 

 State Superintendent Riggs of Iowa has sent out a pamphlet urging the 

 adoption and use of these plans by the school authorities of that state. 



The whole department of Education was under the direction of 

 Commissioner J. H. Hawthorne of Kansas City, Missouri, and the 

 organization, installation and care of the exhibit was under the super- 

 vision of Professor George V. Buchanan of Sedalia, Missouri, superin- 

 tendent of this department. 



The World's Fair awards made in the Department of Education were 

 as follows : 



Grand prizes, 26; gold medals, 51 ; silver medals, 59; bronze medals, 

 22. Total, 158. Of these, 70 were to the General State Educational 

 exhibit, 44 to the State University, 25 to the St. Louis city schools, 8 

 to St. Louis University, 5 to Washington University, i . to Christian 

 Brothers' College and i to Forest Park University." , 



A GOOD RECORD. 



No State surpassed or equalled Missouri anywhere. The cost of 

 the various exhibits and the detailed statement of the expenditures of the 



