The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, October 19, 1912, Page 1

{ { I, ] THE 2 WUNI j Section | ISSUED EVERY SATURDAY FOR THE BOYS AND GIRLS OF SAN FRANCISCO AND CALIFORNIA .‘} e SAN FRANCISCO, CAL, SATURDAY, OCTOBER 19, 1912. ITS GARDENERS RAISE PLANTS AND DOLLARS Local Improvement Club Also Lends the Needed Help- ing Hand The boys and girls of the Glen Park™ school are making every moment count nowadays. The readers of The Junior will remem- ber that the Glen Park pupils last June carried off the lion's share of honors at The Call's sweat pea contest on the University of Cali- fornia campus, and the fact that they have had a vacation in be- tween times has not served to abate one fraction of their energy. Urider the able direction of their instructor, Miss Louisa MacDer- mott, and aided by the sympathetic encouragement of their principal, Miss Wade, these boys and girls have plunged into the everyday tedious matters of gardening with a vim that has brought about sur- prising results. Irom the hard, granitelike- soil around the big school building they have coaxed a wonderful array of bright hued blossoms, while the old vacant lot which they reclaimed from be- neath the earthquake’s debris has repaid them many times over in vegetables. The Glen Park pupils believe in the old saw that if a thing is worth doing at all it is worth doing well. When they made up their minds - to become gardeners they decided that they would be good garden- ers or mnothing. They followed Miss MacDermott’s instructions carefully and conscientiously, worked early and late. Soon they began to realize the results of their labors. As fast as their . vegetables were marketable they were sold and little by little the sum in the treasury grew and grew. Finally the day came when the treasurer announced that the boy and girl gardeners of the Glen Park school had $10 to their credit . realized from the sale of their vegetables, Now, for some time past these children have wanted a _ school banner—not a plain, ordi- nary . banner, but a beautiful, £ splendid banner—and it was de- cided unanimously to set aside this $10 gold piece toward its ulti- mate purchase. Naturally the matter of the ban- * ner was discussed both at home and abroad and pretty soon moth- ers and fathers began to put their heads together. They decided that their boys and girls were making enviable records for them- selves and acquiring not only the necessary book learning which every boy and girl should know, but fine, practical knowledge which would prove of invaluable help in years to come. Finally the members of the Glen Park Im- provement club were made aware of the state of things, and accord- ingly one day last week Miss Wade was made the, recipient of a $20 gold piece, which was to be used toward the purchase of a real banner. Which explains why the boys and girls of the Glen Park school are wearing real sunshine smiles nowadays, which, in combination with our California sunshine, is Continved ou Third Page " GLEN PARK SCHOOL TO HAVE NEW BANNER DENMAN SCHOOL TO EDIT THE JUNIOR GFEA T:'d/. VR : FIND THE PRET T/EST V)G R, AND BE HNVDS REWARDE, LA TVl TS (.75 7w vERY : ove( s am L { LOOK /NG Fafi’.’ GORGEOVS CLOTHES! . 1 kNOW SHE EDITORIAL STAFF IS COMPOSED OF GIRLS Young Editors Work With Might and Main to Turn.Out Fine Issue Next Saturday The Junior will be launched under the able direc- tion of a brand new staff. For several weeks past the pupils of the Denman school have been working busily” on an edi- tion of the paper under the aus- pices of the school, and this edi- tion will make its appearance in the homes of the Juniors on Satur- day morning, October 26. The fact that this is the first school. edition of the new fiscal year will MMand this issue with unusual interest. Last year the Crocker, Grant, Horace Mann and Sutro schools, with their bright and clever pupils, tried a hand at the newspaper game, and each came off with flying colors. In fact, so great a success did the school edition prove that it was determined to continue the series indefinitely with the opening of school in the fall, Another feature of unusual in- terest in connection with the coni- ing edition lies in the fact that the Denman school is- solely and strictly a girls’ school. : The ivis- itor within the quiet halls re- marks at once the absence of the masculine voice, ‘and ' nowhere within the school dominions is a small boy to be found. “Huh!” snorted one small boy of my acquaintance, “I'd like to see a paper that a lot of girls got out. Girls don’t know how to manage a newspaper.” So much for the small boy. He _evidently doesn’t know the girls of the Denman school. When he reads next Saturday's paper, if he’s the little gentleman I think he is, he'll be ready to offer an apology and ‘a congratulation at the same time. The girls of the Denman school are not one whit behind their brothers in the various schools of the city. They are bright, up to date lassies with a whole lot of ambition and a fine belief in their ability to accomplish what they set out to do. They realize that they are being placed on their mettle and all of their pride is up in arms. They are going to show what they can do, and when you have read the Denman edition you will admit that they have acquit- ted themselves with honor. ] A capable staff-of editors has been chosen, with Myrial Pearce at its head, and no end of inter- esting articles have been written. There will be a column of social news, also ‘a household depart- ment and an athletic corner. The editorial staff is composed of the following girls: Editor in chief, Myrial Pearce; assistants, Elspeth Newlin and Catherine Simmons; news editor, Mollie Formah; as- sistant, Tlelen Brown; society ed- itor, Elinor Wood: assistants, Idith Wormser and Eleanor Wood ; athletic editor, Alice Pitt- man; assistant, Romona \Wright ; artists, Dorothy Smith, Lucille Sihoenfeld, Alta Phipps and Cladys Switzer,