Word: children
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Primer children sat at tiny armchairs in front, first-grade children at small desks in the centre, other pupils at bigger desks along the sides. They stood up to salute the big flag, then began their lessons While primer pupils went to play with dolls in the "play corner" and other pupils busied themselves with books, Miss Campbell announced: "First grade reading. Five tots marched to the front of the room, seated themselves on a long recitation bench. There Miss Campbell gave them a Christmas story to read in an Elson-Gray reader, sent them back to their seats with...
...morning recess (10:30), the children took their dinner pails out of closets, munched fruit and passed around popcorn They also put potatoes in the stove to cook for lunch. Johnny went out to the well to fetch water and Ralph to the shed for coal (Miss Campbell lets her boys take turns at these chores, pays them 15? week.) Then boys & girls went to play kickball (like baseball but played with a football) in the yard...
...lunchtime, pupils lined up at a basin took turns washing. Miss Campbell and the older boys & girls, helped the young children unwrap sandwiches, got the potatoes out of the stove. While the children ate, Ralph told them about an airplane trip he had taken a few days before. First crisis of the day came after lunch, when Ralph and Johnny were discovered in the ditch beside the road, fighting. Brought before Miss Campbell, they bawled. She restored peace by appointing them both captains to run the kickball game. But Ralph was still sulky after the game. Said...
Miss Campbell, who has been at this school seven years, knows her children and their families well. She stops to chat at their houses, is often invited to their parties or to stay overnight. Brought up in Iowa City, where she graduated from high school, she studied at Cedar Falls State Teachers College (Iowa) for a year, then began to teach. She does not smoke or drink. Weekends she has dates with a young Iowa City storekeeper. Because she likes to be independent she does not expect to marry for a while. She keeps up with developments in her profession...
...report from most of the 50-odd other silicosis reports which have come out in the last 20 years is the fact that it treats silicosis not as a disease of miners alone but as a public-health menace which indirectly lays low the miners' women & children...