The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1890-03-08
IN AND ABOUT THE CITY.
PICKING Up THE WAIFS
The Noble Work that the Free Kin
dergarten is Doing.

The Noble Work that the Free Kin
dergarten is Doing.
The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union is doing a noble work among the
poor children Of Savannah. The free kin
dergarten which it established less than
three months ago, and which started with
two little tots for pupils, has now nearly
Forty, and II the facilities Of the school
were sufficient to admit Of all who have ap-
pned Tor admission being received it would
have over 100.
The school which the Union has estab-
iished Is located In the Knights Of Pythias
building, and Ia divided into kindergarten,
Kltchengarten and an Industrial school for
girls, Mrs. Sarah Scott and daughter, Miss
carrie Scott, of New York, both experi-
enced kindergarteners. who have studied
the system in Germany, and who are de-
voted to free kindergarten work, have
charge OF the school. The kindergarten
sessions are five days in the week, from
9;5O to 1l:30 a. m. The industrial class is
taught Monday afternoons and the kitchen
garten Thursday afternoons.
between twenty and thirty little tots, all
Ihe way from years up to 8 and years old,
We're seated around low tables yesterday at
WISHING hour, making squares with blocks
ana SUCKS, selecting cards from a large
NUMBER bearing pictures OF trees, flowers,
animals, and rocks, and classifying them as
they belong to various Kingdoms, animal,
vegetable, and mineral; selecting and CLASH
Tying cards of various colors, arranging
single words from lettered cards and doing
dozens OF other little things-to matured
minds simple, but which teach the young
mind the rudiments which form the basis Of
higher education.
Inc little ones-boys and girls-some Of
them waits from the streets, who come
hatless and shoeless, are taught by degrees
those things which when they enter
the public schools-that few of them
would possibly ever reach were it not for the
Klndergarten-wiu put them on footing
with children who have had the advantages
OF nome training and teaching. They are
taught to march, to recite, to sing, and
they go through the calisthenic exercises
with wonderful precision.
AT the industrial school and the Kitchen
garten the pupils are older than those at the
kindergarten. averaging from 10 to IL
years, and they are taught those things
Wnich VIII be of practical benefit to them.
Mrs. and Miss Scott have inaugurated the
work under the supervision of the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union and the
Young Woman's Christian Temperance
Union with great success, and they have
laid the foundation for what its promoters
believe will be permanent institution.
What 1t needs is support. The plan is to
make 1t similar to that Of the California
kindergarten Association, to which Mrs.
Leland Stanford has contributed over S45,-
OOO, and which has trained over 5000 poor
children during the last ten years.
The association has now nineteen
free kindergartens, with an enrolment
of over 1,500 children. Some Of
these kindergartens are supported by con-
tributions Of individuals. Mrs. Hearst, the
WIFE OF Senator Hearst, supports two, the
produce exchange Of San Francisco supports
one. and e band of young ladies called 1.-THE
Helping Hand Society" supports two or
more. The Woman's Christian Temperance
Union hopes to receive the support of indi-
viduals in Savannah in its work.
The Young Woman's Bureau of Work.
which has recently been organized to fill
practically the same field for young women
that the Young Mems Christian Association
fills for young men, is also taking hold of
the free kindergarten work. The bureau is
organized for the purpose of securing homes
and employment for young women who
need employment, and to look after them
1t was organized by Miss Louise Hartman.
who Is one of the Woman's Christian Tenn
perance Unions most interchangeable workers.
Miss Willie Swoll is its president and Miss
Hattie Carson its secretary. The bureau
has its present headquarters in the Knights
OF Pythias building, but it hopes, with the
purchase of new building for the Woman's
Christian Temperance Union Headquarters,
to be located there in short time. Both it
and the kindergarten, kitchengarten and
industrial school are accomplishing a work
worthy Of public support.