DELFT HAVEN

 

DELFT HAVEN 

DELFT HAVEN is a clean, but rather dull town on the coast of Holland, a few miles from Rotterdam. It is of great interest to Americans, as being the place from which the first band of Pilgrim Fathers sailed for America. This was in the Speedwell, on the 22d of July, 1620. At Southampton England she was joined by the Mayflower with English Pilgrims, or Puritans, who had not emigrated to Holland. 
The two vessels had sailed but one hundred miles when the Speedwell sprung a leak, and both it and the Mayflower put into Dartmouth harbor, and the leak was stopped .But the Speedwell sprung another leak when near Land's End, and both vessels put into Plymouth harbor, where it was resolved to leave the unseaworthy Speedwell; and all went in the Mayflower, except about twenty, who could not be accommodated. On the 22d of December, the Mayflower reached the bay and port afterwards called Plymouth, and the Pilgrims landed on Forefathers Rock, and became the founders of the New England States.

References:

The American Chatterbox 1822 

TO THE BOYS OF AMERICA

 

TO THE BOYS OF AMERICA 

By  Theodore Roosevelt 

Of course what we have a right to expect from the American boy is that shall turn out to be a good man. Now, the chances are strong he won't be much of a man unless he is good deal of a boy. He must not be coward or a weakling, a bully, a shirk, a prig. He must work hard and hard. He must be clean-minded, clean-lived and able to hold his own under all circumstances and against comers. It is only on these conditions that he will grow into the kind of a man of whom America can really be proud. In life, as in a football game, the principle to follow is: Hit the line hard; don't foul, and don't shirk, but hit the hard. 

MATERIAL FOR AUDITORIUM AND OTHER MEMORIAL DAY PROGRAMS 

References:

1. The Grade Teacher May 1931
2. The Triumphant Life OF Theodore Roosevelt  Citizen Statesman President ames Edited by J MARTIN MILLER The Celebrated Historian and Biographer 1904

Peasant Costume of Sweden

 

Peasant Costume of Sweden 

From SWEDEN

By H.W. 

Rachel Dixon 

WHATEVER else your peasant costume plates are doing for you, they are using up lots of gay paints and crayons, reds and yellows, and greens, and blues, just as bright as you can get them. Climate seems to make little difference in the brilliance of national taste. for these Swedish costumes are just gay. 

The girl in the plate is wearing a dress from Floda, Sweden. Her black skirt is embroidered in colors, and edged with scarlet. Her dark blue apron has at the side a gayly embroidered bag, and is topped by a bright girdle. Little of the red and white striped bodice shows under the scarlet embroidered shawl. All this brilliance is relieved by a white blouse and stockings, and a scarlet cap decorated with needlework tops it all.

The dress below the figure has a blue skirt with a green hem. The apron you can make very attractive by coloring the wide plain stripe scarlet, the closely barred stripe green, and the loosely barred one in blue, leaving a white stripe in between .The bag and belt are scarlet, with narrow green bodice and straps, and red and green collar. The jaunty cap made of black velvet with red seam, scarlet ends and tassels, should be perched on the back of the head.  

The lad is a bit more sober in his array, but his love of color bursts forth in gay spots. He is wearing the garb worn in Dalecarlia. The plain black vest and white shirt is set off with yellow trousers and bright garters. The suit below on the left has a dark coat with gay embroidery at the wrists, bright tie, white or light colored stockings.

The suit at the right is from Halsingland. The dark gray-blue coat and trousers have bindings of red, and the garters are gay. The red vest is bound with green, and the stockings are dark. With this costume goes a bright scarlet сар.  

Reference:

JOHN The Child's Magazine HELEN WALDO and JOHN MARTIN EDITORS 1929

THE MEADOWLARK - THE RECITATION WITH MUSIC

 

THE MEADOWLARK - THE RECITATION WITH MUSIC

by ANNE WAKELY JACKSON 

OF COURSE you know the Meadowlark; 
He wears a vest of yellow, 
A trim striped coat and jet black tie- 
He is a handsome fellow.

When Spring comes tripping down this way, 

He takes up his position 

Upon a roadside post and sings,

For he's a good musician.

And maybe he will sing like this:

Or maybe like this other:

And then, perhaps, across the road, 

You ll hear this from his brother:

And, if you listen carefully, 

Way off, you ll hear his cousin

For Meadowlarks 

Can sing songs by the dozen.

They also make whole meals of bugs, 

So we should all protect them. 

The farmer knows they are his friends! 

In March we may expect them.

Reference:

JOHN The Child's Magazine HELEN WALDO and JOHN MARTIN EDITORS 1929

       

HYMN TO OUR FLAG

HYMN TO OUR FLAG 

Poem by JOHN MARTIN 
Music by LOUISE AYRES GARNETT 

My flag my country's sacred flag;

Oh banner fair and free!

Brave emblem of man's human right 

To life with liberty!

Thy bluer white spread freedom's light;

Thy deep red flames and flows   

For heroes who have bled and died

Where honor's pathway goes!

God shield thy white of purity 

In honor plain and true!

God keep the glory of thy red!

God bless thy starry blue! 

The weak find find shelter i shelter in thy folds; 

The strong stand in thy light; 

The foe to freemen's heritage 

Yields to thy splendid might!

Above the battle's breaking surge, 

Wave onward to thy goal 

Till all mankind has sought and found 

His freedom-loving Soul!

Wave on, dear flag, o'er land and sea. 

Thy majesty unfurled 

To guard the cherished liberty 

Of God's advancing world! 

No tyrant's hand shall drag thee down; 

No blot that soils or mars 

Shall stain thy stripes of red and white, 

Or dim thy beaming stars! 

AMERICA , AMERICA!

Thy millions rise as on

To guard the honor of our flag, 

To see see its its mission done! 

In life or death, in peace or strife, 

Our country's flag shall be 

The starry guide to those who love 

Their land of liberty! 

Reference:

JOHN The Child's Magazine HELEN WALDO and JOHN MARTIN EDITORS 1929

OUR FLAG

OUR FLAG 

By John Martin

Decorations by Verna McCully 

RED, white, and blue; red, white, and blue;
Red for the coursing blood that flows 
For brotherhood in human hearts. 
White for the Spirit that bestows 
On all mankind a sense of God, 
The wise Creator of us all, 
Who holds the heavens in His hand 

And notes the tiny sparrow's fall.

Blue for the Mind with which to think; 

A gift to man by dear God given 

That holds our human reason close 

To man and to our God in Heaven. 

Red, white, and blue, with stripes and stars;

The Body, Spirit, and the Mind; 

The emblem of true liberty 

And equal rights of all mankind. 

OUR FLAG! It flies on many seas;

 And many peoples, reverent, 

Take to their lives the meaning of 

Its sacred purpose and intent.

It may be dumb, but still it speaks 

A ringing language that imparts 

Hope to the lost, faith to the brave, 

And Freedom's voice to human hearts. 

TS COLORS may be crude and bold, 

But glorious it is unfurled, 

And to us, far more beautiful 

Than any flag in all the world. 

In battle it has paid the debt 

We owe to others, and in peace 

Its never-failing urge to right 

And love of freedom will not cease. 

No selfish purpose shadows it; 

No greed or hard ambition mars 

The simple glory of its stripes 

Or mystic meaning of its stars. 

The numbers of its stars may change, 

But changeless is its meaning true; 

And cloudless is its purity 

As high noon sky's unclouded blue 

T stands for honor and for truth, 

And man's undying great desire 

For happiness and liberty 

By God's will reaching ever higher. 

It knows no king or creed or rule; 

It is no banner of the sword. 

Its sole allegiance is to God;

Its creed, reliance on the Lord. 

OH, Children of America, 

This sacred Flag of ours endures 

In beauty, strength, and purity, 

Through loyalty and prayers like yours. 

'Tis you whose hearts and hands shall keep 

Its purpose plain and meaning sure. 

'Tis you whose reverence and love 

Shall hold its glory always pure. 

It is your growing sense of right 

That gives you children sight to see 

How best to cherish and protect 

Our Flag of life and liberty. 

'Tis you our children, who must live 

With spirit pure and steady hand 

To keep Our Flag the emblem of 

The sacred honor of our land. 

So, rise, brave young Americans! 

Stand up and take unflinching parts 

In all that keeps Our Country's Flag 

A sacred glory in our hearts. 

Don t let a day of life go by 

Without a loving thought or prayer 

For our dear Flag and for the hearts 

That keep its meaning cherished there. 

Reference:

JOHN The Child's Magazine HELEN WALDO and JOHN MARTIN EDITORS 1929

MY OWN UNITED STATES

 MY OWN UNITED STATES - THE HYMN 

Revised Edition- New verses written at the suggestion of 
THE NATIONAL SONG SOCIETY 

Lyric by STANISLAUS STANGE 

Music by JULIAN EDWARDS

1.My native land, my country dear,

Where men are equal free;

For thee each morn new love is born, 

Sweet land of liberty.

With tears my eyes are filling fast,

Yes, tears that joy awaits, 

With love I... cry :

"For you I'd die,

 My own United States !"

Refrain

I I love ev'ry inch of her prairie, 

Each stone on her mountain's side; 

I love ev'ry drop of the water clear,

That flows in her rivers wide. 

I love e' ry tree, ev'ry blade of grass 

With in Columbia's gates!

The Queen of the earth is the land of my birth.

My own United States. 

2. From golden youth to country silver'd age,

Tho' feeble feet may lag,

With joy each heart bids age depart,   

When gazing on our flag. 

The flag that ever filling leads the van,

Whose cour age naught a bates,

The flag of youth, the you flag of truth!

My own United States!

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS  May 1919

Good-will Day- May 18

 Good-will Day- May 18 

 THE only sure way to destroy an enemy is to make him your friend. We do not quarrel with people whom we understand. This is as true of nations as it is of individuals, and is the practical idea behind Good-will Day (May 18th), the anniversary of the meeting in 1899 of the first Hague Peace Conference. So for a na- tional understanding of people in other lands, we as individuals, should go out of our ordinary paths on this day to learn something about the in habitants of foreign countries. We should learn how they live, and try to understand the things that are close to their hearts, their ideals, ambitions, and hopes. No dry statistics, no formal collections of facts will give us these things. We must have humanized accounts that will make us feel that heart beat as true on one shore as on  of the other. 

DECORATION DAY POSTER- COLORING PAGE

 Decoration Day Poster 

It is suggested that the calendar day of the month be taken out of the magazine and mounted on a larger sheet of colored paper. A margin of two inches should be allowed on the top, and the two sides of the drawing; but the bottom margin should be four inches. This will allow a calendar leaf of the whole month to be pasted below the picture. Color mount for the May picture is light blue.

References:

PRIMARY EDUCATION POPULAR EDUCATOR May 1927

 

Mother - A Poem

 Mother 

By Annie Winfrey Meek 

My Mother dear is sweeter far 
Than all the lovely ladies are. 
Kindness is written on her face; 
She scatters joy in every place; 

She makes, wherever she may be, 

A glad and happy place for me. 

Her hands are swift, her heart is 

High honor ever is her due; 

My love is hers, and year by year 

She seems more lovely and more dear.

References:

NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS May 1925

THE MAGIC OCTAGON- PUZZLE

 THE MAGIC OCTAGON- PUZZLE 

 Procure a good stiff piece of pasteboard and draw four each of the three designs, represented in the accompanying diagram. If joined together cor rectly they will form an octagon.

The Answer To The Puzzle

The pieces are put together in the following manner: 

References:

1. THE AMERICAN BOY'S BOOK OF SPORTS AND GAMES A REPOSITORY OF IN AND OUT DOOR AMUSEMENTS FOR BOYS AND YOUTH Illustrated with over Six Hundred Engravings DESIGNED BY WHITE HERRICK WIER AND HARVEY AND ENGRAVED BY N ORR NEW YORK DICK & FITZGERALD PUBLISHERS 18 ANN STREET Entered according to Act of Congress in the year 1864 by DICK & FITZGERALD  

A May Coloring Card- Violet

 A May Coloring Card -Violet 

By JOHN T LEMOS 

VIOLET FLOWER
STATE FLOWER OF ILLINOIS, NEW JERSEY, RHODE ISLAND, AND WISCONSIN 

A THOROUGHBRED DOES NOT SPEND ALL THAT HE HAS 

Some children may be able to draw this design free- hand. For the other pupils the teacher may make carbon or hectograph copies.

Color the blossoms blue-lavender. The center of each blossom should be deep purple, with short stripes of this color radiating from the center. Make the yellow-green with medium-green in the shadows. The stems also should be yellow-green The initial may be colored light-yellow or pale-green.

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS  May 1930

 

A Window Decoration- Robin

 A Window Decoration Robin 

By BESS BRUCE CLEAVELAND 

Freehand cutting project or Coloring page for Month Of May.

Cut the robin from slate or dark brown and add colored papers, as indicated. 

The dotted lines show the concealed branch of the apple tree. Mount the design on the windowpane as shown in the finished sketch.

Themes : Mayday, Nature Studies, Birds, Zoology, Spring, Garden, Orchard, Flowers, Botany, 

References:

1.NORMAL INSTRUCTOR AND PRIMARY PLANS  May 1930

Turn Around Game- Hal Hai Jas

 Turn Around Game- Hal Hai Jas- Native American Indian Game 

Twenty or forty small sticks six inches long are taken in the palm, thrown up in the air, and as many as can be, caught on the back of the hand. Those that were caught, are then thrown up again, and, if possible, an odd number is caught in the palm. If an odd number: one, three, five, or seven is caught- one stick is kept by the player, who tries again. If none, or an even number is caught,- the opposite player takes his turn. He, who catches the last stick, wins all his opponents sticks, and then the game proceeds as at the beginning. Boys and girls play this game together. 

References:

1. Everyland 1913
2.Kinscella Readers Around the World in Story By HAZEL GERTRUDE KINSCELLA Illustrations by Ruth Mary Haliock Stories in Music Appreciation Book Six THE UNIVERSITY PUBLISHING CO Lincoln Chicago New York Dallas The University Publishing Company 1930 

Archery Game- Zune

 Archery Game- Zune- Native American Indian Game  

The arrows are made out of twigs, about two inches long, with three feathers fastened to each.
This game can be played by any number, each one being provided with several arrows. Holding it between his index and middle fingers and thumb, (as one holds a pen), the first player throws an arrow a distance of some ten or twelve feet.

Then the second player throws, aiming to have the feathers of his arrow touch those of the one already on the ground. If he is successful, he takes both arrows, and makes another throw, when the next player aims at the arrow on the ground; if he fails, the arrow remains in place, and another player throws, and so on; each boy, taking the arrows which are touched by his arrow. The taker of the full number of arrows wins the game. 

References:

1. Everyland 1913

2. Games Of North American Indians 1907 

3.INDIAN HERO TALES RETOLD BY GILBERT L WILSON PH D FIELD COLLECTOR FOR AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CITY OF NEW YORK Illustrated by FREDERICK N WILSON AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO 1916

Kwai Indao-Native American Indian Game

Kwai Indao

 
Native American Indian Game

A set of forty or fifty sticks, representing ten different numbers (1 10), are placed in a row. The number which any stick represents is shown by the number of marks on it made by chalk, or other substance .All the sticks, representing the same number, are grouped together. The players alternately try to repeat from memory, blindfolded, the order in which these ten groups are arranged the number of pieces making it confusing.

Kwai- a word means "welcome"

SKITTAGETAN STOCK- HAIDA KAIGANI, Prince of Wales island ,Alaska 

Dr CF Newcombe describes the following game under the name of kwai indao.
A set of 40 or 50 sticks, representing ten different numbers are placed in a row. The playersm alternately, try to repeat from memory, blindfold, the order in which these ten numbers run.

References:

1. Everyland 1913

2. Games Of North American Indians 1907 

3.INDIAN HERO TALES RETOLD BY GILBERT L WILSON PH D FIELD COLLECTOR FOR AMERICAN MUSEUM OF NATURAL HISTORY CITY OF NEW YORK Illustrated by FREDERICK N WILSON AMERICAN BOOK COMPANY NEW YORK CINCINNATI CHICAGO 1916

Making the Wood Jump -Native American Indian Game

Making the Wood Jump- Ichapsil Eckunpi 

Native American Indian Game

The boys imagine themselves standing on the ice near the banks of a stream, which they have marked off on the ground. They take turns in hitting at a piece of wood in the stream, trying to send it flying into the air.

SIQUAN STOCK 

DAKOTA TETON 

South Dakota

 Rev. J. Owen Dorsey describes the game under the name ichapsil echunpi,- making the wood jump, by hitting it. When the boys play this game, an imaginary stream is marked off on the ground, and the players stand on imaginary ice near the shore. They take turns at knocking at a piece of wood in order to send it up into the air. He, who fails to send up the piece of wood, loses his stakes, and he, who succeeds, wins the stakes.  

References:

1. Everyland 1913
2. Annual Reports Vol.24 1907

3.THE CLASSROOM TEACHER VOLUME XII THE CLASSROOM TEACHER INC CHICAGO 1927

Battledore and Shuttlecock -Onumla game

Battledore and Shuttlecock -Onumla game 

Game Of Native American Indians

The battledore is a thin circular board, nine inches in diameter, with a wooden handle. The shuttlecock is a stout twig, with three feathers, tied securely to it. If there are several players, they stand in a ring, and bat the

shuttlecock to the next player to the right. 

Should the one batting send the shuttlecock behind his neighbor, he must drop out of the circle.

Should the one, to whom the shuttlecock is batted, fail to hit it with his battledore and send it on properly to his neighbor, he must drop out of the circle. Thus the circle contracts until two. and finally only one is left.The last one is pronounced the winner. 

References:

1. Everyland 1913

2.SPORTS SPICED AND PASTIMES PEPPERED BY GREENDRAGON AND DANDELION JUDY OFFICE 99 SHOE LANE FLEET STREET EC 

3.GAMES OF THE NORTH AMERICAN INDIANS ETH ANN 24 1907

Ring and Arrow Game -Tokoinawas

 Ring and Arrow Game- Tokoinawas 

A ring  of seven inches in diameter is made out of dry corn husks, over -wrapped with half with white and half with red cord, and four corn-cob darts, each with two feathers and wooden points about ten inches in length.

Four play the game. Two facing each other roll the ring back and forth. The other two on opposite sides, shoot at it with darts. The arrows are shot from the hand, being so held, that the middle finger runs between the two feathers.The one, who hits the ring, or shoots through it the oftenest, in ten rolls, wins. 

Four play the game.

 One man rolls the ring by two opponents, one of whom shoots at it with a blunt arrow with a bow, tä-lip. If he knocks it over, it counts 1 point; if he transfixes it,- counts 10 points. Each part of the arrows used in this game, which are 30 inches long, has a name quite different from those of war, small game, or flight arrows. The foreshaft is literally "come to us." The shaft is literally "tied together," or "links." The feathers are literally "appointed season." I could get no light on the reason for so naming them. 

References:

1.Everyland 1913
2. TWENTY FOURTH ANNUAL REPORT PL I BUREAU OF AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY 1907

The Prayer of the Omaha Boy

 The Prayer of the Omaha Boy 

By Janet Ogden 

In preparation for the rite, practised on attaining manhood, the Omaha youth was taught the tribal prayer. He was to sing it during the four nights and days of his vigil in some lonely place.
                                                                                                       G Stanley Hall 

Wa-kon-da, Maker of Men, 

Wa-kon-da, Spirit of Might, 

Wa-kon-da, Father of all Things, 

Wa-kon-da, Giver of Light, 

"Here needy he stands;

 I am he!"

Wa-kon-da, Maker of Men!

My hands I stretch forth to Thee 

Wet with my tears, as I pray 

The prayer of my tribe's decree: 

"Here needy he stands; 

I am he!"

Wa-kon-da, Maker of Men, 

A man, born to-day, calls to Thee! 

Faint with the fasting he trembles; 

Give Thou of Thy strength is his plea. 

"Here needy he stands; 

I am he!"  

Wa-kon-da, Maker of Men, 

From the air comes the mystic song, 

The breath of the wind breathes the cadence, 

The voice of his soul, new born. 

"Here needy he stands; 

I am he!" 

Wa-kon-da, Maker of Men! 

His prayer has reached up in truth 

Once more in the countless ages, 

Thou heedest the words of a youth: 

"Here needy he stands; 

I am he!" 

References:

1.Everyland 1913