PAGEANT FEATUREOF NATURE STUDY

Need of Forest Protection toBe Depicted at Central

High School.

Need of forest protection and natureIn all her various phases will beshown Friday night in the naturestudy pageant at the Central Highifthool Auditorium, when 400 grade

school pupils take the part of birds,trees, the spring, bugs, flowers andplants. The pageant, under the di-rection of Elizabeth K. Peeples of thenature study department, is charac-terized by the American Nature As-

sociation as of the utmost importanceand the association plans to tell theschools of the country just how theWashington schools put on the show.The proceeds are for the benefit ofthe Junior Red Cross.

Pageant "Lends.”In the pageant the “leads” will be:'

'The Voice.” by Donald Grove of theDennison School; • “The North Star,”Ruth Shaughnessy of the H. D. CookeSchool; "Spring." by Natalie Norwoodof the John Eaton School; “FireSpirit,” by Ruth Shaughnessy; “UncleSam,” Ledger Smith of the LudlowSchool. “The Voice.” which will in-terpret the action, represents a phaseof general science work taught by ithe nature study teachers. Every jcharacter is symbolic and the entireaction is based upon facts of agri-culture, astronomy, bird protectionand forest.conservation.

A choir from the 11. D. Cooke Schoolwillaugment the voices on the stagein the vocal music. Tickets and pro-grams are. the work of the boys atthe Lenox Print Shop. Cyril Flanneryis in charge of lighting.

Aided by Class Teachers.The nature study department has

heen greatly assisted by the classteachers in training the children, thedrawing, music, penmanship, manualtraining, physical training and do-mestic art departments.

In the first act. the friendly stars'

will show the northern constellations.A song by the stars and a star dance,by “Polaris.” Ruth Shaughnessy, willbe attractive features.

In act II school gardens are to berepresented by a group of twenty

farmers and farmerettes from the"Wallach-Towers School. Their cropof vegetables (Gage School) will bevigorously defended from insects(Morgan School) and weeds <Jeffer-son School), after which the victori-ous gardeners dance for joy abouttheir harvest.

The third act, “America's Treas-ures,” tells the story of our fast-vanishing natural resources. thewhite man's guilt and his ryesponsibil-Ity.

Scene 1 shows the forest primevalby night. Trees (Ludlow and Blairschools), wildflowers (John EatonSchool) and two small owls (John

Eaton Sch ¦¦¦'¦ > are seen .in the dusk.Moths an iirefli»s (Peabody-HiltonSchool) enter and flit among the

trees. The little owls search forsigns of spring. Day dawns andSpring (Natalie Norwood) appears-.She beckons the birds and animalsinto the wood, and at her touch wildflowers (John Eaton School) unfold.Next water nymphs (Hubbard School) •

appear and dance among the trees.'for streams can flow only where |

watersheds are forested. X-asrt comethe Indians (John Eaton School), who |for so many centuries lived in the.midst of the forest, loving it, using it,but never despoiling it. i

Scene 2 discloses the same forest ;scene, into which come lumbermen(Ludlow School), who chop the trees •heedlessly and before whom birdsand animals flee. There follow agroup of campers (Ludlow School),!showing evident enjoyment of the ;forest, but go away leaving theircamp fire burning. The fire spreads.Out from it leap “flames” (John

Eaton School) and the Fire Spirit(Ruth Shaughnessy), which consumethe trees. As the flames die out theforest is left a'charred waste. Thereenter a bird, a water nympl}. a wildflower, a dryad and a bunny, who

look about dazed and frightened;

then stand, a symbol of grief. Thencomes “Uncle Sam.” Though at firstgrief stricken, he departs with a de- •termined gesture.

Scene 3 shows the devastated forest ,to which “Uncle Sam” returns, bring- iing with him his armies of restora-tion and preservation. The forestservice (Ketcham School) chop the :burned trees still standing and plant ,new trees. The Wild Flower Preser- tvation and Audubon Societies* i(Ketcham School) call hack the birds jand flowers. Little by little the for-est is restored: and into it come the :patriots of old and young (Ketcham jSchool), who love and enjoy it and ;pledge themselves to protect it.

BOY BADLY INJUREDAS AUTO HITS CYCLE

Young Woman, Run Down at 12thStreet and Massachusetts Ave-

nue, Ideated at Emergency.

Samuel Stelnkuller, twelve, 2331Park place southeast, suffered a frac-

ture of the skull yesterday afternoonas a result of a collision between hisbicycle and the automobile of M. R.Michael, 415 H street northeast, nearPennsylvania and Minnesota avenuessoutheast. The injured boy was takento Providence Hospital* where sur-geons said his condition is critical.

Samuel Clark, colored, thirty, ajanitor at the Chastleton, was knock-

ed down by an automobile on R street

between 14th and 15th streets lastnight and injured. He was treated atEmergency Hospital. Identity of thedriver of the automobile was not es-tablished.

Frank H. Lancaster, fifty-two years.6615 Harlan place. Takoma Park,yesterday afternoon was knockeddown by an automobile at Connecticutavenue and L street and his right legbroken and his body bruised. A col-ored man driving the car failed tostop, according to theypolice. The in-jured man was given surgical aid atEmergency Hospital.

Abraham Sures, thirty-four, 4510lowa avenue, last night was knockeddown by a taxicab at Pennsylvaniaavenue and 13th street and injuredabout the head. John A# Penny, 450015th street, driver of the taxicab,took the, injilred man to Emergency

! Hospital. /j Tony Batano, twenty-five. 48 De-icatur place northeast, received a frac-ture of his right leg last night as aresult of a collision between a motortruck on which he was riding and astreet car near Louisiana avenue andoth str<-et. Surgeons at EmergencyHospital rendered first aid.

Miss Laurena/Biack, Alabama apart-ments, last night was knocked downby an automobile driven by A. C.Luber, 232 N street northwest, atMassachusetts avenue and 12th streetand her left leg fractured. She wasgiven surgical aid at Emergency Hos-pital by Dr. McCarthy.

Right Again.From the Richmond Times Dispatch.

Sister-in-law from Philadelphia in-forms us:‘

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