Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1888-12-24
MEALS FOR THREE CENTS.
HOW II iS DONE At Th9 FIVE
POINTS HOUSE Or INDUSTRY.

HOW II iS DONE At 1h9 FIVE
POINTS HOUSE Or INDUSTRY.
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kind and how macn Of . dinner could -
furnished for three csnta Hs went eosn %
In. Five Pan,s Ho1ss Of Industry and had
TAX with Superintendent: William p. Bar
card, vso Gas PRESIDED over the Eouss Of 10
dcstry for 70 many ysars
TO b~gia With, aid Superintendent Bar
nArd, We have about 80 children living
ssrs In thu house and 245 who come here 10
the school The children in the house gss
tnres meals a day, Of course, and those who
come TO tie school get variously one or two
meals. These child en- arS al between toe
ages Of ; and IS, and few Of them are over Is.
W. don't AIN 10 take IN any body over 10, bcs
SOFA Of our boys and giris have stayed with
Us I'll then are IS years old In addition 10
thess We have good many grown women
staying with Us all the while. wh1 have 10
bones and who want situations a. domsscica.
W keep Them until they can fnd work
Nov. .e have breakfast here a. O'Clock,
dinner a. u C'ciocx AID supper al 5 O'Clock.
The breakfast and supper consist q bread
All utter and coffee Tie coffee has milk
and sugar in it. At odd times during the
resk there Is added to this sts~ed prunss or
apple ssiioe and sometimes crackers and
Cheese. Always on Sunday nights the chll
dren Get ',ake Of some Kind, and fruits in the
seas 4. There is something extra every Sun
day night
TEE Bill FOR EACH DAY
Vow | will give you the regular bill Of
fare for dinner for each day in the week:
Monday, mutton stew; Tuesday, mutton
soup, W sdnesday, stewed beef, or occasion
ally bs.,d beef pie, THURSDAY, cOrnsd beef;
Friday. iiaa Of some K nd. or fried LIVER; Sat
urd2y. roast beef Sunday, corned bssf
With these We always serve potatoes or tur-
nips, ana sometimes both, and always green
vegetables OF some kind.
There is no certain portion OF food given
TO each child al meal The children have
all they can eat, and they are not stinted-
Thanksgiving, and Christmas, ami New
Year., Of course. are feast days Then We
give tho children turkey and chicken with
cranberry and apple sauce and all sorts Of
vecetab es, with celery and apples and all
that sor. Of thing For dessert We have les
OF every kind. with cheese and coffee The
feast days generally last for two or three
days each, in fact, for We always have more
on hAni than can be consumed in single
day Most Il the food on these days, Of
oourss, . contributed, but We are still put to
. good deaf OF extra expense then, and all
this Is counted in our general estimate OF u
meal for three cents.
The quality Of the food is always good
Our bread 10 the best We can buy We have
bought it for years Of one baker who sells it
To Us at the rate Of a six cent loaf for four
and one-halt cents Our girls cook some, but,
OF course they can't cook enough to feed al
the mouths here. Throughout the year we
have various kinds and amounts OF fruit and
Vegetables and food contributed, bur We can't
rely On this, and we don't
I'VE try to make this as little Of an 'insti-
tuition as possible. | abhor an institution
where the children oil wear uniform .,r u
certain kind Of dress, and are known by mum
bers and wards IN and out to their meals and
to bed. and all that sort OF thing That seems
to me about as heartless and cruel as the
poverty the children lived in before they
came here. So far as possible we try to learn
the children's names and call them by these
We have no marching or military business,
and have never heard it said that We didn't
have good order When the bell rings for
the meals the children are generally in their
play rooms. They dock into the dining room
a. fast as they can, and a merry scene it is,
too. Thy do not sit at the tables, but stand
h.r
get more at the tables this way. They don't
wear any sort Of uniform. In buying cloth
for clothes for the children We always get as
varied colors We can. 1t is our aim to
make this as much OF a real home as we can
We can't come anywhere near our ideal b.
cause we have TO deal with children In a
mass Wecsn't individuali1e in our govern
usnt and treatment as a parent can Still,
We peg along on this plan so far as We arc
able.
CLASS IN COOKING
During the summer We had = teacher
here from one Of the cooking schools up town
10 instruct our girls in cooking II wasn't
with toe idea Of helping us exactly, but with
tbs idea OF helping the girls, may be, to Oh
tain situations confess was a little skep
teal about the experiment, Tor, mind you,
these are a very young girls. hardly any Of
them over u yenrs old, and they have come
out Of poverty stricken places, where they
didn't get much Of . notion about refined
cooking or about my cooking at all.
We'll, there was a class Of sixteen Of them
formed, and after the teacher went away
was anxious to sec what they could really do
divided them up into squads Of four each,
aad put each squad, day after day, into cur
private kitchen, where the meals for thoss Of
Us in charge here are prepared No one was
allow'sd in the kitchen but the girls-no one
was allowed to come near the kitchen. Well,
sir, those girls went strnight through the
week and prepared our meals day nfter day
Just exactly as well a. the cooks We hire
Mind you, they didn't have any help at all
They cooked nicely all the things such as peo-
pie gsnsrllly have on their tables-beefsteak
and omslets, and so forth. aud the nice kinds
OF pastry, such as cream pie and apple
dumping and suet pudding and 50 forth.
confss was surprised, for theoretical cook
ing teaching Is apt to bc one thing and prsc-
teal cooking Ia another with these Young
girls'
Mr. Barnard showed the reporter some
bread that the girls hsd made 1t was really
cne breads clean and sweet aud nice a. It
could BE- Then MIR barnard called into the
room . couple Of the little girls who had done
Reilly, was . plump. black eyed, black
hairsl little eirl, whose face beamed inteIli-
gencs and deligh. as she told Mr.. Barnard
Just how size had made the bread and de-
scribsd the 81 Giate STEPS IN the making OF =
crsani pie The other girl was little Ital-
Ian girl nnmei Antonio She was only "
years old. Her father and mother are dead,
and with her Little sister, still younger than
herself +, she came to the House Of Industry
ono y inter morning and asked TO he taken L.
She looked happy IN her warm clothing whom
the reporter saw her, with her face flush ng
from the kitchen fire She was very bashful
and lung down her head and twirled her
apron IN her fingers as she told the reporter
how the had made the brown bread all alone
and kept It III the oven just twenty five min
utes 10y the kitchen CLOCK.
Il doubt if many girls Of their age in fam
lilies in good circumstances In the city could
do what ley caD,' SAID Mr Barnard, when
the girls left tue room.
Aud tho Re otter said 10 thought so to-
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