The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1890-12-18

They have practical dining room
classes and practical working class
es. How our Southern children
would enjoy visit to the different
rooms and see these little ones at
their work with their tiny stoves,
and working utensils, dishes, tables,
&c. Toys suitable for Christmas
gifts, you say-yes, but they are
getting practical lessons from them
for future usefulness.
My first visit was to a bedroom
and here found little lasses of 4
and 5 years, airing beds, making
them up by rule, answering ques-
.tions as to the three requisites of
nicely made up bed, smooth, square
and level. Told the necessity OF VEN
tilatiDg the room, how to cover up
toilet sets while busting and showed
how to sweep 50 as to keep the dust
down as much as possible. Little
songs were INDUCED in, bearing ON
the special work of that room. Then
went into parlor and there |
found the little maids with busting
caps and white aprons ON, going
through the drill of tidying and
md Snsting this room, Each room
had separate teacher.
A third room, the laundry-here
! they had bags, the receptacle for
soiled clothes, dolls clothes they
were sorting out so as to separate
colored from white, and telling why
they must not be washed together,
also how to wash fannels. The lit
tie doll tubs are SO cunning and
wash boards in them, some were
washing, some boiling in miniature
boilers, some rinsing, while others
were starching and hanging out on
lines, telling the plan of work in a
spirited song. Then the clothes
were placed in the baskets and TAX
en- to the ironing table. They fold,
mend and put away the weeks wash.
This work is put into practical use
by the Kitchen gardens on Satur-
days. Then it is sure enough wash
day.
The sewing room was next visi-
ted. Around some low tables, to
suit the little girls, were seated ten
or twelve girls. The teacher was
giving her first lesson in stitching
and as soon as the stitches are learn
ed, they are given quilt patches to
join and handkerchiefs to them.
Some were measuring dolls to cut
and fit garments and their little
fingers handled the patterns and
the dolls clothes with a promise of
superior dress-making in the future.
The larger girls were in kitchen
learning to make light rolls, bis
cults, to toast bread, and cook
eggs in a variety of ways, also soup
and meats. They were given a
lunch of their own preparation on
Saturdays and permitted to take
some evidences of their cooking
home, which so pleased the hard
toiling papas, that some come in
person expressing thanks and re-
questing the privilege to pay one
dollar monthly toward this sort of
teaching. They tell of the marvel
Gus change in home and how much
over worked mothers are helped.
The work in the Kitchen garden
may be said to be of moral, liter
airy and religious character. Stor-
les are read or told the children
bearing on these subjects, and they
are Intercepted as to the moral of
each. They aim to impart general
information, to give memory gems,
to cultivate desire for good read
ing, to bring the right influences to
bear upon their immediate lives and
to prepare them for intelligent, USE
ful and happy future.
They have Glands of mercy" in
connection with the Kitchen gar
dens," a society of "Kind Doors"
Their badge is knot of blue rib
bon, worn in token of some kindly
or helpful act rendered outside of
home during the week. Said a lit
tie girl, 81 washed the dishes for a