The record-union., 1892-07-22
DAY NURSERIES.
The Good Results From ChiIdren's
Day Homes.
Noble Institutions of Which Sacra-
mento Has One-Physical and
Moral Training.

Through the instrumentality Of the
Women's Christian temperance Union
and a number Of kind-hearted ladies out
side that organization, this city has now
an excellent Day Home where little chill
dren, whose mothers are obliged to work
out for their living, are tenderly cared
for during working hours. In the
Charities ReUieaO for June, E. Carlyle has
a very interesting article on the subject
of day homes. or nurseries, in which he
says:
1.-The working woman must be at her
work by O'clock and cannot leave until
q. Think What it must be to her to know
that during all that time Of enforced
absence she will at the days end lind all
her children safely housed and we'll cared
for. How many Of these mothers, before
they brought the children to the nursery,
were on the verge Of placing them i'll
some permanent institution, but were de-
TERED by the sickenlng pang OF parting
with them and the dread of breaking up
the home. To some, the material COM
forts offered the children in the shape of
certain food, shelter, clothes, immunity
from accident, care when they are sick,
and schooling, all without effort on the
part of the parent, other than that made
Oyerbalance motherly love and indepeud-
enCe.
1--WE are thankful to record, however,
that this is not the case with the mother
who brings her little one 10 the nursery.
The general plan Of management of all
nurseries is about the same, varying only
in detail, regularity as 10 diet and hours
of sleep, and the kindergarten, work. In
all, the rules Of the Board of Health re-
garding contagious diseases are enforced.
In making the tour Of the nurseries, the
writer recalled a remark made by Mr.
Brace. lie says: Those who have much
to do with 4 plans of human i'm
provement soon see how superficial and
comparatively useless all assistance or
organization is which does not touch the
habits Of life and the inner forces which
form character Particularly was this
| borne in upon the mind at the Sunny
Side Day Nursery, where the manage
ment is based upon the idea of as thor
ough physical and moral development as
| circumstances will permit. and which is
carried out in the most exquisite perfec-
ton OF detail.
''The managers do not stop at the point
of giving shelter and food. They reach
down further. Practically they say:
Here is our opportunity for influencing
to an incalcuiaDle degree these future
workers, voters, fathers and mothers.'
children have been handicapped by mega
tions, bound hand and foot by what they
did not know and could not have. They
| have seen enough to know that it is not
sufficient to be brave or patient or to
! possess the many single qualities which
may make a person successful in life.
They know that to assure moral and
material success, genius or brilliancy is
not so much needed as training. There
are those, of course, who have had in
! herent stubbOrnness or tiXity of purpose
to select a certain line and follow it,
training themseves-and they have sue
ceeded in life. There are others in whom
that fixity OF purpose could be developed
and the State thus enriched by the labor
Of so many more able and successful
workers.
st is in this that the Sunny Side
Nursery does its best work. 1t trains
these children. From the bath in the
morning to the playroom: thence to the