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on vour suggestions to your fellow teachers. To facilitate this exchange of 

 ideas the R. I. Science Teachers' Association has arranged for an exhibit to 

 be held at the Normal School, Saturday, January 12, 1918, 10:00 a.m. to 

 1 p.m., lectures beginning at 11:20. Teachers, principals, and superin- 

 tendents should feel a professional responsibility for contributing their share 

 in a service that is so absolutely essential to the nation. Get an idea, place 

 it on a placard so that others will get it and send the exhibit to the committee 

 at the Normal School. % 



The following speakers will give practical talks and demonstrations as to 

 what teachers can do in food lessons : (The first lecture will begin at 1 1 :20 a.m. 



Professor P. H. Mitchell, Brown University; Mrs. Ida S. Harrington, 

 Home Economics Director for Rhode Island, and others. 



The exhibit resulting from the hearty response by the teachers must have 

 been gratifying, to say nothing of showing patriotism. There were many 

 suggestions for teaching topics relating to the present food crisis. There were 

 charts showing food conditions at the time of the Civil War and at other 

 national crises; food lessons in geography ; suggestions for drawing food post- 

 ers; an exhibit showing that we must save for the soldiers with substitute 

 foods and correct combinations; Hoover lunches for the lunch box, prepared 

 by pupils; an exhibit of colored slides showing the foods of Narragansett Bay 

 that should be eaten and are not; foods that were eaten by the Indians and 

 the colonists but are now neglected. There were practical talks on simple 

 food experiments with lessons on foods. There were dialogues appropriate 

 for grade pupils written especially for the occasion — all relating to foods. 



It must have been a most valuable exhibit and program, full of timely 

 suggestions. The teachers of Rhode Island are certainly very much alive. 



The Rhode Island Horticultural Society has had during the present season 

 addresses on "Gardening for Women" by Miss Man* E. Cutter; on the "Provi- 

 dence County Farm Bureau and its Work," by Mr. David Elder; and on 

 "Small Fruits and Berries," by Mr. Wilfred Wheeler, secretary of the Massa- 

 chusetts Board of Agriculture. 



The Providence Franklin Society is nearly 100 years old, being incorporated 

 in 1 823 for the purpose of interesting people in physical and natural sciences. 

 It meets everymonth in Rhode Island Hall, Brown University. All interested 

 are invited to attend and to bring specimens. On January 23d the subject 

 was, "Fossils Flora of Rhode Island" by Miss Marion Weston, and on Feb. 

 6th, "Recent Flora of Rhode Island," by Miss Eda Round. 



The following announcement makes you know that Rhode Island is one 

 of earth's pleasant spots and that you would like to belong to this club: 



RHODE ISLAND FIELD NATURALISTS CLUB 



On Saturday evening, January 26th, 1918, at eight o'clock, the usual 

 January Meeting of the Club will be held in the Lecture Room of the Provi- 

 dence Public Library. Short business meeting. 



Instead of a formal lecture as in past years, we are to have a number of 

 short talks by some of our members, as follows: "Experiences of a Natural- 

 ist," William G. Vinal; "Bird Banding," Harry S. Hathaway; "Hunting 

 Tigers in Rhode Island Jungles," Dr. E. E. Calder; "Jogging the Memory" 

 (illustrated), Prof. J. Franklin Collins. 



