The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1885-04-26

served hot for lunches during the winter We
/ also received a valuable collection of clothing,
books and toys from the Girls Classical School.
Our total membership will be shown by the Sec
retarys report to be eighty-one. The conditions
of membership are as follows: Amy woman, by
the payment of an annual fee of 81 or more, and
any gentleman, by the payment of an annual fee
of So or more, and the signing of the constitu-
ton, may become member of this association
and have the right to vote at the annual meet
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The total receipts to date have been 81, 249 38:
the total expenditures to date ST. 60 will be
fully shown by the treasurer'S report. The total
number of children enrolled, as shown by the
superin tendents last monthly report April ~ is
4O2. This showing is very gratifying especially
when compared with the report of the Golden
Gate Society," of San Francisco, which gives the
total number of children enrolled during the
year at 467, and the expenses over S., 900; but
they have salaried teachers in each school, while
with US the salary of our superintendent
is our only + expense ,, for teachers The
solicited for contributions has been gen.
erous and kind but the many offerings
unasked have had special power, both to
strengthen and encourage us in our work and to
increase our faith. Six ladies, two for each
school, are appointed monthly to visit the kind
ergartens and the families from which destitute
children are reported. We find from the
ports of these visitors that over sixty families
have been visited and Ala garments distrib
the schools, as will be shown by report of the
chairman of committee on distribution of
clothing. The society has been encouraged in
its work by the superintendent of the public
in the public schools and Classical School, and
by the clergy generally; and, am happy to say,
there has been no encouragement from any
source. In providing funds for the coming year
it has been thought advisable to solicit as far as
practicable, monthly subscriptions By this sys-
tenn we can best estimate the work that NAV be
safely undertaken for the year, while it is at the
same time less burdensome to the giver. Sew
eral of our ladies adopted this method with the
new year, and have been paying from ST. to 81
per month, and such course heartily approve,
even though the subscription should not
amount to more than five cents per month.
The progress thus far made is very graft
flying, and L am sure we all feel fully
repaid The young and tender plants when
properly cultivated, bring forth beautiful flow
for God, whose perfect character admonishes us
to try to approximate his virtues. Is not the
kindergarten work an essential step in that di-
rection! By it the child is SO taught that its
helping while its manners, morals and cleanli-
ness are ever guarded by the teachers; thus
trained, the child's mind will become active for
usefulness, while its self Prospect will keep it
from the idle streets and deter it from haunts OF
vice-thus indeed training the child in the way
it should go. And as it grows older will not So
ciety be bettered, crime diminished and God
more honoredl Such believe will be the re-
suit of our efforts in maintaining free kinder
gartens, and that will be ample reward.
has given me to be associated with you
i'll this noble charity and for the special honor
conferred upon me as your president during the
first year of our work, I avail myself of this
opportunity to express to you, what | have all
the time felt, my sincere and grateful thanks.