The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1893-12-21

~. DECEMBER
about love, about the golden rule. about
the best way of getting OH in the world
by DONG nothing you would never want
every one to know You had done.
Other Features.
ut may not do 'em much good. but IL
can't 40 'em any HARM" said Mr.. Ar
monr. AT any rate, they are glad to
come Sunday after Sunday. There must
be nearly 1000 here today, and we al
ways have all we can take care Of You
will notice that things are pretty clean
around here. We can teach the chill
dren cleanliness, if nothing else. Give
'em that and I'll risk the godliness part
of it,"
The Sunday school is only one feature
of the work of the Armour mission.
There is 81 kindergarten which is crowd
ed every day with hundreds of the chill
dren of the poor. Here u double purpose
is served. Children who are usually I'M
able to profit by these advantages on ac-
count of the poverty of their parents are
taken i'll and taught, while kindergarten
teachers are here trained to go forth
and do good works elsewhere in the
world which needs them so much. There
are night schools for boys, sewing and
cooking schools for girls, and IA free dis
pensary which serves all corners, even
to dentistry and vaccination. A speciality
is made of teaching children how to
take care of their health in general and
their teeth i'll particular. Can any one
estimate the amount of good Phil Ar
mour's Sunday school, with its practical
attachments, is doing for the children
of Chicago?
Tho Mission Work.
This mission has been in operation n
number of years. Its success increases
as the years go by. The children who
were taken i'll from the streets five wears
ago are the teachers now Boys who ex-
changed the sidewalks and alleys for the
Sunday school act as ushcrs or teachers
as they grow older. Even the parents
grow to love the mission and its work,
and almost to envy the children who are
able to partakc of its blessings. The mis-
sion grew and grew until its founder
and patron perceived an opportunity to
broaden the work and widen its useful
ness. Nothing stood III the way but the
lack of 81 600, 900, and little thing like
that does not worry Phil Armour. I'm
Gle Phil thousands of children call him,
and he is lucky man who not only is
able but knows how to be uncle to the
rising generation of II great city.
The million was promptly forthcom-
inp md thnra CT,
street from the mission the Armour in
stitute. A splendid building it is-by
far the best thing of its sort OH the CON
tinent. 1t must be fine building that
cost, with its scientific and educational
apparatus, Il thousand thousands of dol
lars under the watchful eye of Il man
who is as practical and busnesslike as he
is generous.
The Armour Institute.
The Armour institute combines in one
plan the best features of the Drexel in
stitute of Philadelphia and the Pratt in
stitute of Brooklyn. Its aim is to helm
young men and women to a liberal edu-
cation, especially to teach them familiar
| ity with the practical arts and profess
sions which will start them on careers
of usefulness and success. This lot Il
free school. Tuition is charg III every
department and class, but the fees are
more or less nominal.
There is great number of free scholar
ships for those who desire them. 1t
would have been made free, like the
Kindergarten and other classes in the
mission, had not Mr.. Armour's business
sense told him the first lesson he had TO
teach was that of self help, of self re-
spect and independence. Without the
support of the founder the institute
could not run II single day. A gentle
man who was in Mr.. Armour's Office
not long ago says the packer was look
ing over some re- rts during his call
and turned to hir. with the remark:
My bill at the institute is only SIT 900
this month, the first time it has been un-
der SEQ, 900. We are making progress"
The Armour institute has faculty of
about 20 professors and teachers. 1t
trains the hand rs we'll rs the mind.
Visitors here who obtained their educa-
ton wholly out of books wish they were
young again, that they might enter this
institution and learn the secrets of
science, the mysteries of the arts, from
their finger tips as we'll as through their
optic nerves. 1t would be difficult to
think of anything really worth knowing
that is not taught here
MIR. Armour Is Satisfied.
In the basement the boilers and en-
gines are object lessons in themselves;
so are the dynamos which furnish the
light. In the electrical room is the fin
est collection of apparatus to be found
under one roof anywhere in the world.
Mr.. Armour's agents spent $35, 900 for