ART APPRECIATION
We do not expect many of the school children to become artists, but all can learn to appreciate and tastefully select the beautiful in pictures, personal dress, home furnishing and decoration, and architecture. It has been truly said, "Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not."
Frequently a few minutes of the morning exercises may be very profitably, spent in the study of the beautiful. Artistic material to use as illustrations for the talks is on every hand. Inexpensive reproductions of the world's great pictures; illustrations in magazines; beautifully colored papers for color combinations in neckties, dress designing and hat trimming; magazine and catalog pictures of well designed furniture and home utensils can be easily obtained.
A suggestive list of morning talks is given below:
Famous Pictures
The First Step—Millet
Landscape with Windmill—Ruysdael
The Horse Fair—Bonheur
Sistine Madonna—Raphael
Morning—Corot
How Can We Get Good Pictures for Our Schoolroom
Color Harmony in Dress
Good Taste in Furniture
Home Decoration
Beautifying the School Ground
Washington, the City Beautiful
References
How to Enjoy Pictures—Emery
A Child's Guide to Pictures—Coffin
The Mentor
The School Arts Magazine
Ladies' Home Journal
The Perry Pictures
National Geographic Magazine
HEALTH TALKS FOR MORNING EXERCISES
Truly, "A people's health's a nation's wealth," and every encouragement should be given in school to further the doctrine of healthful living. The medical examiner, the school nurse, the pupils and the teachers, all may do their part to make the health talks practical and of much value to the school.
Suggestive Health Talks
Why we should exercise
Care of the Teeth
Care of the Eyes
Prevention of Colds
How to prevent Tuberculosis
Swat the Fly
How to destroy mosquitoes
Cleanliness
Safety First
Cigarette Smoking
Self Control and Good Manners
Emergencies
School Sanitation