Lancaster daily intelligencer. [volume] (Lancaster, Pa.) 1864-1928, 1886-03-06
THE CUILDRE,s,S HOMF
Described I'm Composition by One OF the boys
Who Is In the utiou

Described I'm a Composition by One OF the boys
Who Is In the Institution.
The children's Home s a large house it
was built for poor children that haven't any
father or mother or those that are poor and
haven't any home. There are 81 boys aud ~
girls live IN the home. 1t has great many
rooms. 1t has sleeping rooms. There are
two play rooms, one for the boys and one for
the girls, and we have room they call II the
Laundry it has two machines to make the
clothes go around that is what makes the
clothes clean. -Four boys turn the machines
at one time, | sett turns halt hour. There
Is little room in the boys playroom, where
Mrs. Jennie does the patching. She is busy
from morning till night We have wash
room to wash our faces and comb our hair.
There are big stoves In our house they
give great deal of heat. Down in the cellar
there is great big furnace ; the heat goes
all through the house. There il also a coal
cellar coal oil cellar and a potato cellar. We
have an eating room and kitchen and
Dread pantry and dish pantry. Some men
built a fire escape around the home so II
there should happen to be fire the children
could get out in safety without being burned.
We have big school room to learn how to
read, write, and spell We study Arithme-
tlc- Geography and we do long division, Null
tiplication and subtraction. We have an
organ in our school room. Our playground
is pretty big the boys play horse i'm sum-
mer in the shed. They play ball and hide
and seek in summer. In summer we nut
up the swings there is gymnasium on our
playground. To put the swings up the boys
guide up high and jump oil of the swings
To see how far they can jump, some can
jump big distance. We have shed down
on our playground it was built there to 90 in
when 1t rains
The boys and girls have learned pieces for
the entertainment. We have a big lawn full
OF fruit trees peaches and apples cherries
grapes, and plums, and pears, When sum
mer comes our grass gets green and grows
up big II Is cut down with the lawn mower.
Our lawn looks very pretty in the summer
We have little room i'm the home where we
keep the sunday clothes, il is called the ward
robe. In our wash room there are four foot
tubs in summer we wash our feet in them
when we run bare footed Down below our
house we have a big garden To raise all kinds
oil vegetables and down below is spring
house to keep the milk and butter cool. And
there is barn ; it has cows in 1t. Some
men put pole up and put a fire alarm box
on 1t, Our box is No. II If there should
happen to be a fire the fire men and the
horses with the engine would be here in
hurry so as to save everyone in the house.
II fire would break it would cause great ex-
element, every body in the house would be
scared.
Around near the front door there is a little
room that the little children go and learn
how to sew some kiptergartner things such
as cows and sheep and lambs Miss Cole
teaches them to sing and march around.
Miss Cole first teaches the children to write
and spell and read then they come out in the
big room and learn about geography, Arith-
metic and Spelling and maybe they will get
up in the fourth reader il they try. Next to
the parlor is 3 sitting room, where the sew
ing is done. Miss Kallie Erwin makes the
clothes and there she has q sewing Machine
to sew them with She is kept busy as bee
from morning till night The sitting room
~ a comfortable place. In the evening the
ladies take seat in there and read the news.
Next to the sitting room is a little room for
the sick. Miss Susan attends to sick aud she
is kept busy from morning till night. She
gets their dinner aud supper and breakfast
tor them, | don't know what the children
would do ii Miss Susan would 90 away from
the home they would say l want Miss
Susan.
Our home is four stories high and there is
Neranda around it Down in the boys
playrOom the boys have made house.
They have two boxes with moss inside of
them they have china eggs that they get on
easter ; they take the moss and make "a nest
and put the eggs in the nest then put little
china rabbits around the eggs ; they have a
little wooden menagerie 1t has animals in
but they are not alive we have tin horses
and a little livery stable and steam boats and
little wooden dog they say it keeps watch
over the house at night.
The girls try to keep their house as good as
ours, but they can't the boys get ahead of
them. Some of the boys made bows and ar
rows and shoot at a mark to see how good
they can shoot There are one or two of the
boys that can shoot good mark. In the
summer the boys make little gardens and
pretend they are farmers. Some of the chill
dren like it at the home it is nice place
for poor children. Some wish that they
We're in the country or some place so they
wouldn't be here but for my part l think it
Will tie best to stay at our comfortable home
till some one came 10 take us away.
WILLIE HALLAwAY.