Health defects-City children and country children compared.

A number of effective charts and photographs showed the advance of the Negro in literacy, farm ownership, and standards of living. Hampton Institute was represented by furniture made in the school shops; in particular, a large, substantial oak table, the practical value of which was attested by actual use in the exhibit throughout the exposition period. The Hampton Jubilee Singers gave daily concerts at the Bureau of Education exhibit, and also in one of the motionpicture theaters in the Palace of Education during a period of several weeks, thus bringing Hampton's work to the attention of many exposition visitors who might otherwise not have known of it. It was significant that many casual visitors who came to hear the Hampton singers remained to study the school exhibits.

The work of the schools for natives of Alaska was shown by charts and also by actual products of practical education in the Alaskan schools. The District of Columbia was well represented by work in art, manual training, millinery, etc., from the Washington elementary, high, and normal schools. Through cooperation with the Department of Agriculture and 13 agricultural colleges, the Bureau of Education was enabled to present a representative exhibit illustrating the extent and methods of agricultural education.1

1 For a detailed description of these exhibits, see Bulletin, 1916, No. 2, Agricultural and Rural Education at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition.

A chart describing educational foundations gave the following information:

The printed publications shown in the exhibit included the annual reports of the Commissioner of Education, issued since 1868, and the bulletins of the Bureau of Education, of which 160 were issued in the three years preceding December, 1915.

Other printed matter on exhibition included: (1) Student annuals, or similar publications of the leading universities, colleges, and normal schools of the United States; (2) the 6-foot shelf of home reading courses offered by the Bureau of Education; (3) bound volumes of the principal educational surveys conducted in this country in recent years; (4) a model country-school library for California schools.

CHILDREN'S BUREAU.

The Children's Bureau exhibit as a whole was educational in the larger sense, and certain features of it had direct reference to school problems. A moving panorama, "Our 30,000,000 children," attempted to show where children were at each year of life. Of about two and a half million children born every year, 300,000 die before they are 1 year old, according to the exhibit. In the seventh year 52 per cent of the children are in school; in the eighth year, 75 per cent; in the ninth, 83 per cent; in the tenth, 86 per cent; in the twelfth, 91 per cent; in the thirteenth, 90 per cent; in the fourteenth, 89 per cent; and in the fifteenth year 81 per cent are in school. Attractive charts emphasized the need for playgrounds, especially play spaces for younger children.

Models of a sanitary dairy and an insanitary dairy shown were of special interest, because they were made by the girls' class in sanitation of the Pasadena (Cal.) High School.

Comparative growth of libraries in the various States, as shown in the Government education exhibit.

Children's health conference in the exhibit of the Children's Bureau.