SIGHT-SEEING IN SCHOOL 



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HATS FOR SALE 



Photograph by Harriet Chalmers Adams 

 CLBU, PHILIPPINE ISLANDS 



These hats, of coarse weave, are worn by the taos in the rice field and are exported from Cebu. 

 A fine grade of hat is exported from the Philippines, made from abaca, or manila hemp. 



an hour's careful reading, and his knowl- 

 edge is clear-cut and accurate. 



INTERMEDIATE INTERESTS 



The pictures likewise care for all the 

 varied needs and interests of the liveliest 

 group in our schools. Not even the dart- 

 ing humming-bird can vie with the activ- 

 ity of boys and girls between the ages of 

 eight and fourteen. Nowhere else is to 

 oe found the abounding vitality and the 

 insatiable curiosity that they possess. 

 They run miles in the course of a day's 

 play, and at night are ready to tease for 

 just one more game of ball. They want 

 to hammer up buttons to "see what they 

 are made of," and to take the clocks 

 apart. Their interest in how things are 

 done is now used to broaden their knowl- 

 edge of life and work. 



Here again pictures are the magic car- 

 pet that takes the children through the 



coal and iron mines and shows them how 

 gold and silver are separated from their 

 ores. 



No Alice in Wonderland is more excit- 

 ing than a visit to the South African dia- 

 mond mines. 



No fairy in story ever performed the 

 feats that are done every day in our large 

 factories, where lumps of graphite and 

 slabs of wood are turned into lead pen- 

 cils ; or at our power-houses, where the 

 force of water rushing over the dams is 

 turned, at a flash, to light and heat. 



No tale of the key-flower that opened 

 the door of the rocks can vie in thrill 

 with the opening of the mountain at 

 Culebra Cut and the linking of the oceans 

 at Panama. 



No witch at her cauldron could arouse 

 half the wonder and awe that comes from 

 the sight of one of our huge blast fur- 

 naces, pouring forth its fiery flood of 

 molten metal. 



