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i i os Clngclcs SunDcuj (Limes, SUNDAY, APRIL 7. 1007 fAKE LESSONS FROM NATURE. Polytechnic- Students Tramp Far Afield. 'Girls and Boys Alike Explore Peak and Canyon. Faculty Encouraging These Walking Tours.

III HI I 1 1 I III II The cross-country clubs of the Poly technic High School ought to be able to throw some light on the old nursery rhyme: "How many miles to Marly, Marly bright? Three score and ten. Can I get there by candlelight? Yes, If your legs are long and light." The members have started out to tramp over much of the beautiful California countryside In the glory of the springtime, when the sap Is rising end the heart of the woods Is singing, and every 41ttle brook Is laughing and running away. They have already traveled more than three score and ten miles, GLENDALE VALLEY VIEW TRACT is absolutely the most beautiful suburban tract on the market today. Every lot a bargain. GLENDALE VALLEY VIEW TRACT is in the heart of Close to the broad-gauge car line with its palatial cars.

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Phillips, prominent school man, now chief deputy in the County Superintendent's office. and several times they have found that their less were long and heavy, but their hearts have been light in every case. One of the happiest of Ideas was the the boys' and girls' clubs toured to Iiaurel Canon, where the echoes rang with their merry shouts. WHEN A MILE'S A MILE. But the regular tramps are 'serious undertakings.

Intimate acquaintance with the open is diligently sought; elusive mountain peaks are sized up with the eye; distances are Judged and then verified by the map that is carried as faithfully as the mariner carries his compass. Those who have taken all three of the long tramps over hills and mile on a level; and down hill through cactus and tall coarse grass makes a mile much more than a mile. There is learned talk by the way, of rocks and streams, of erosion and irrigation, and light mention of "contour and other technical terms. THE FACULTY AS WALKETtS. The teachers are greatly Interested In the cross-country walks.

Principal J. H. Francis, Charles Thorpe, and fiss Edith Jordan are members of ttie Sierra Club and are especially enthusiastic. N. L.

Gardiner piloted the Saturday Club into Eaton's Canon, northeast of about a week ago. One of the most attractive trips was engineered by F. W. Moss of the Polytechnic faculty, who is said to be the best walker of them all. A street car took the party to Edendale, beyond Echo Park, where the tramp was be- Make the Dining Room Artistic As Well As Convenient It is a very easy matter if you come here, for we maketa specialty of artistic dining-room furniture, applying the sort of art that takes not one whit from usefulness.

We buy from the very best factories in the country, and we buy the best that they make. We get every possible price concession and we give it to our trade. through eafions can teli Just how far it organization of these clubs in the school a few weeks ago. Boys and girls have their separate clubs and the 'teachers accompany them In the long tramps into the country. Six of these little bands have been started.

Two boys' clubs and two girls' clubs take their tours on week days after school, but the long trips are taken by the Saturday organizations. Yesterday all is from one point to another at glance, they think. The boys measure miles in 'their own way. They tell you that a mile up a peak feels decidedly farther than a run over sandy soil, damp from the 'i 8 rain and pleasant to walk on, until tne party reached the foothills and followed the trail along the ridges to Cahuenga'Peak. There was strenuous climbing over rocks and through thick brush, the lads finally making their way to a ranch house near Hollywood where 't.

they refreshed with great bowls of milk and bread. At one place on the home trail the trampers climbed the Edison Electric Company's tower on OS the 60,000 volt line from Kern River, spying out the land from that high vantage point. This Magnificent China Cabinet Only $97.50 A product of the Stickley Bros. Arts and Crafts Shop which stands at the head in furniture making. It is not only massive in looks but in fact.

The wood is quartered oak and "the finish is fumed a rich, nut-brown shade that will readily harmonize with almost any scheme of decoration. The trimmings are of copper. The sideboard to match is also reduced. This Dining Table $22.50 GIRLS AND WILD FLOWWRS. The girls have taken several trips out Into the country, not so far as the boys have penetrated, but In one case just wiimMm s-l s'' Wi a little farther than they intended, for they got lost and had to find 1 Collecting wild flowers to bring the beauty of woods and fields into the Polytechnic building is one of the ob i Jects of the girls' cross-country tours, and they always come back laden with III There are adventures, too.

On for the six-foot extension and $25.00 for the eight, The design follows the Craftsman ideas very closely. The splen- one of the trips, the leaders elected to explore the hills in the oil region, but they were bewildered for a time, and finally brought up in a brick kiln. A deserted house was found, delightfully mysterious, and the entire crowd, hi Sr chaperone and all, had a picnic lunch eon in the borrowed mansion. did cabinet work is a feature not to be overlooked. It is made entirely of selected oak and the finish is weathered.

We can give you the same table with a round top in the six-foot size at $25.00, and in the eight-foot at $30.00. HEY FOR SIERRA MADRE. Th most ambitious outing yet 3afcVf undertaken has been planned for this vacation week, when Prof. Kile, who is 2 at home on every road and trail in the vicinity, will direct a trip to Sierra Madre. A stormy session of the walking clubs w-as held preparatory to this trip.

One set of boys wanted to walk to the scene of action; i fJJ 'it i'a i if another wanted to ride to Sierra Madre and take tours to ML Wilson and other points. One faction was determined to camp In the open and to aleepon the ground; the other contin This Solid Oak Leather Seat Dining Chair $6.00 In a chair there is just as mucli virture. in workmanship as in quality of material. While this chair is made of solid oak, the feature is the splendid workmanship. It has a leather upholstered box seat.

The finish is weathered. 1 We have the arm chair to match at $10. gent wished to sleep in beds and do the Rugs for the Dining Room Most everybody prefers rugs for the covering of the dining-room floor. We carry full lines of the Domestic, German and Oriental, having at all times complete and well graded assortments. Vou will find our prices low.

The Rug Department is located oivthe well lighted top floor convenient thing. mm: IL A compromise was effected at last. Two trips were determined on, one to take next Tuesday and Wednesday, and the other to be begun, Friday, April 26. when a party will walk from Sierra Madre to Mt. Wilson by moonlight.

The boys will sleep there and some back through a part of the coun V. if try where they will blase their own trail. I' 1 Yi i i 4 i Ths camaraderie and exchange of 631-35 South Los Angeles Furniture Co. spring stL Ideas between teachers and pupils is one of the great benefits of ihesa outings which are something on the. order of the summer tramps taken by tin German professors and their pupils.

aDsormng nature and geography ai first hand. Good health, drunk In Adam's air, good spirits, and good times wait on these tramping tours. Principal Promoted. T. J.

Phillips, who waa one of the most successful principals In the Los Angeles public schools, has Just taken his place aa deputy In the office of the County Superintendent of Schools, his place at the San Pedro-strppt buggv, did not understand the humor of the situation. His suspended sentence will probably never be In force, at least, not until the Juvenile Court Association has given him many probation triUs. Carfara to School. The vexed question of who shall pay ot- far to the probation and tru- probation whose parents are not abla to give them the money necessary to take them to these special schools. The Board of Education has arranged to pay the fare for those not under-tha Juvenile Court's care, and who ara unable to meet the expense.

The three special schools for truants and probationers have tha highest average of attendance In tha city for the past seven mouths, over 98 per cent. one of the most difficult and unruly charges In the city. 1 Ills genius for controlling boys and his executive ability soon began to be felt. He took the shortest cut to. the boys' hearts by instituting athletics of various sorts.

Two years ago this school did an unprecedented thins. The teams trained there by K. J. Likely, under Mr. Phillips's direction, won the x-ity championship for grammar- it 4 have much to thank Mr.

Phillips for. New Sort of Sentence. "I sure have got It this time, Mr. Likely," said a small probationer, after the session of the Juvenile Court on Friday. "What have you got?" asked the principal of the probation and truancy schools.

"Why, the Judge give me a suspender sentence Whittler." the small waif answpred in polemnlzed tone, "suspender" being a more familiar word than the mysterious "suspended." "Well, you give me the suspenders and you may take the sentence." said Mr. Likely, but the yonfigster of 11 years, who had coolly stolen a horse and schools has been settled. It was i settled a few days ago when a small boy walked four miles through the i rain to attend the Grafton-avenue I h.vil Hn wot snaked to the skin. being supplied by R. W.

Reed, formerly of the Second-street school. Mr. Phillips has ben In educational work here for the nant ta-Pivo relay H-aoes, the banners adorning the i i and had to be wrung out and hung up Among the Txxton. HiUt. rurs- trA prson an- firl In oihn- profession! wld fln4 4 1 or Km cr4 prtnlrd In Th Ttm of KTVat sdviire.

Hurry" calls will t- a ur rvcult, and he ot of a (Undine announcement la triflinj compared wai tit return-- and has made a record for himself and his school wherever he has served, y'ar cnie prlnclpsl or the San Pedro-street school, then wans of the schools today. Mr. Phillips appreciated the effect of good munic, and he made a bp-claly of a boys' chorus. The schools Haunts of Polytechnic cross-country clubs. 3 dry.

His case decided tne juvenile Court Association to take upon itself the mer of car fare for all boys on A.