The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-02-18

stitution. In addition to the white
wash, this and the other sheds were
beautifully scolloped. Oh, beg pardon !!
Neatly corn1ced all around the roof,
and over the doors and windows and in
every scollop, or cornice, or point. or
whatever they were, there was heart,
an empty heart to be sure, or a hele
which might have contained heart.
1t was so pretty, and 70 significant
Extending out from the kitchen was
the children's dining room, sitting
room and wash room. This was long,
low shed, which like the dormitory, gave
pretty free access to wind and rain. A
door led into it from the end of the
kitchen porch, and the buildings made
hollow square, open to the east and
commanding view ot the barn and sta
bles and farm house, a little farther
off.
In- this dining room there was a long,
low, rough, board table, made fast to
the floor. Around it "these things"
stood, and ate their mush and molasses.
or bread, meat aud potatoes, by the aid
OF tin plates and spoons. In the far
ther corner was rough trundle bed, a
cradle and crib furnished with straw
beds and grey blankets, and always oc-
cupied by sick children, for sickness
was the rule. The expense of the
buildings made it necessary to use great
economy, d..when cholera infantum
appeared, mush and molasses, though
cheap, was not we'll calculated to restore
health. But then, the place was in
such perfect order! The schoolbouse,
with its scolloped cornice and hearts,
white walls and yellow blinds, and shad-
ed by large apple trees, looked SO very
pretty as seen from the bow and back
windows Of the drawing room. As
visitors rested after walk up the kill
in the luxurious crimson. .colored chairs
aud sofas, looked down at the rich tap
estry carpet, up to the marble tables
and gilt walls, out through the cluster
ing roses, on the charming scene, they
were quite enraptured. Then to look
into that stated drawing rom with its
oaken walls, approp riate pictures, mas
siye s;daboard and solid look Of CON-
fort, to note the perfect order and neat
ness which reigned, and GO to the school,
that model school, where the very flies
appeared to hum III chorus, and where
everything was as orderly as thesquares
on chess board, and where the pupils
went through series Of physical cvo-
lutions, Of alphabetical, orthographical,
geographical and mathematical gym
nastics with the precision of compa-
ny Of West Point Cadets under the eye
of General Scott-it was refreshing,
sure enough. So unlike anything any
one ever saw ut homo, where children
do make such timei r..
Mothers who were secretly conscious of
their own want Of firmness in enforcing
the law upon those little creatures whom
God had thrown helplessly dependent
upon their mercy; teachers who felt
guilty Of heart disease, went abash ed
out of that model school, and reflected
admiringly upon the wonderful faculty
Of this wonderful teacher, and despair
ingly on their own deficiencies and her
unattainablc superiority.
Passing over tie place, the neatness
Of the WALKS, the order of the flower
beds, the rows Of trees bending under
their loads OF lucious fruit, the acres of
vegetables, the long rows Of currant
bushes on which the cornelian clusters
gave up all hope of hiding under the
green leaves and hung temptingly in
the sun, the purling stream of pure wa
ter which sang under the willows at the
foot of the orchard, the infants and wee
toddling things on the kitchen porch,
who looked up in such respectful won
der, each and all proclaimed the L. N.
A.. A. P. Fl. for D. W. and O. G. a
model institution. All distinguished
and many undistinguished visitors to
Arabia Petrea we're expected to visit
"The Home" Statesmen, editors and
philanthropists came, saw and examin-
ed, and wrote aud published eulogiums
on "this noble Institution and the no.
bic ladies who were giving their time
to the noble work." "The acc ,mplish-
cd teacher with her self:sacrifcing Ia
bors on behalf of the poor and needy"
was something to restore to the misan-
thrope his lost faith in humanity. The
Weak Indulgence folks saw their H.
stitution in the papers, aud felt some-
what ashsmcd Of their opposition to the
policy which was thus crowned by the
appreciation of that divinity of civiliza-
tiou, "Thc Press"
During the first year Of the partial
triumph Of Law and Order, "The In
stitution" rose to be famous. Its name
aud merits got into ever so many news
papers, and forty per cent. of its or
phans into as many little nameless
graves. The l,dies, the noble ladies'
and such they were in fact aud name
were very, very sorry about the little
graves. Some of them would have lik-
ed to have sent shrouds into the graves,
but their funds were low aud the living