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Newspaper
San Antonio Light
Location
San Antonio, Texas, United States of America
Date
Mar 26, 1916
Page
15
Selection from Kate Brown Celia Thaxter and Alice Cary deliver child friendly verse about seeds waking to light Gustava’s breakfast with animals and flowers The Birds of Killingworth by Henry W Longfellow is presented as a pastoral vision of spring with birds arriving across the sea and a bustling seaport town setting.
The High School Scientific Society held its first birthday picnic at Berg's Mill with about fifty members. The event featured ice cream and a cake, games and dancing, and a stop at Stinson aviation school on the return trip. Members, officers, and guests enjoyed songs and cheers as they departed, marking the outing as the most successful of four.
The verse recalls farmers tiling the land alarmed by crowing omens and Cassandra like prophecies of doom for the birds. It contrasts solemn warnings with a creed that noble deeds elevate the soul toward a purer air, as people reflect on progress through mastered good and vanquished ills.
Quote from J. G. Holland on spiritual ascent. It asserts that heaven is achieved gradually as we build a ladder from earth to higher ideals through steady effort. The message emphasizes perseverance and incremental progress.
A lyric excerpt celebrates wings and freedom followed by a short comic tale about Mr. I B Sharp buying a shabby violin. Ignatz Longhair visits, tests the instrument, and declares it not Stradivarius, ending the vignette with a humorous note.
The Travis School junior debating group, aided by senior members of the High School Congress, staged a tough contest on the topic goods from Canada should not be taxed. The negative, Harris Davenport and Austin Stuart, prevailed over the affirmative Hugh Halff and Gearheart Sonderman? judges and faculty declared the decision in favor of the negative.
An advertisement from Wesco India or Wesco Ceylon and India Tea offers 300 cups per pound and urges grocers to stock sealed packages only. The notice emphasizes product quality and brand availability for retailers.
Last week physiology classes at Main Avenue High School began a four week study of first aid under Miss Charlotte Stoddard head of physiology. An order for about 150 Red Cross manuals has been placed with the government Red Cross organization in Washington and should arrive early next week. Miss Stoddard has taught in San Antonio schools since 1904 and chose physiology to practice her life hobby when asked by the superintendent about her preference.
The National Gallery of Art in Washington DC accepts a Lincoln portrait by George H. Story of New York as a gift from Mrs FE Harriman. Story recalls meeting Lincoln in Washington in 1860 and painting from memory aided by photographs, saying no public Lincoln portrait then existed there.
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