The Portland daily press. [volume] (Portland, Me.) 1862-1921, 1893-02-17
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THE cH1LDREN's BUILDING.

ture-only $50, 000-was apportioned out
among the various commonwealth.
Some were taxed as low as $50, and even
the wealthiest of them not more than
5000. About $4,000 have thus been
raised. The balance is yet to come. The
ladies want it.
Chicago's women have undertaken to
equip the interior and pay the running
expenses, but they expect their sisters
elsewhere to do their share toward get
ting the building itself in place. And
they are not likely to expect in vain. 1t
will cost more to equip and run the af-
fair than to erect it, and it was for the
former purpose solely that the recent
international bazaar was given at the
Palmer mansion. The women of Chi
cago have already their share of the
money in hand. What they now need
is the small balance from the country.
How long are they to wait? That is what
the executive committee of brainy wom-
en- who have charge Of the details and
who are holding daily meetings to push
it along would like to know. They are
all prominent in Chicago society and
have given their time and money freely
to the cause of the little ones. They are
Mrs. George L. Dunlap, who is director
of the building; Mrs. L. Brace Shat
tuck, the secretary, and Mesdames Solo
mon Thatcher, Jr., Leander Stone and
W. W. Kimball.
The Children's building, an ornate af-
g.; Of +,xyo e+o o,,I roof rro1.1ap
and occupying a tract of ground be-
tween the Horticultural hall and the
Women's building-90 by 150-is in
tended primarily as an educational ex-
hibit. There will be a department. deal
ing with the newborn babe, and in
which Miss Maria M. Love of Buffalo
will conduct model creche, demon
strating by example as well as in short
lectures the most healthful, comforta-
BILE and rational system of dressing,
feeding and providing for the rest of
infants. Then rising by easy stages will
be the kindergarten, under the auspices
of the National kindergarten associa-
ton, showing how the little ones can de-
velop their intellectual and moral facul-
ties; then the kitchen garden, illustrat-
ing housekeeping; a physical develop
ment department, where athletics will
beillustrated by President Charles Barry
of the Worlds Fair Commission North
American Turnerbund, and a small nurs.
cry under the auspices of the committee
on philanthropy of the New York lady
managers. This will be simply a chill
dren's department of public comfort.
The library will be filed up with chill
dren's literature, and in room near by
Pennsylvania will have department
giving daily demonstrations of the prog
ress that has been made in teaching very
young deaf mutes to speak. In the as
sembly room there will be rows of little
chairs and platform from which stere-
opticon lectures on our own and foreign
countries will be given. Kind hearted
guides, or Undergraduates, as they will be
known, will welcome the little visitors
in groups and conduct them through the
building, so that they will feel thorough
" at home. AS for that roof garden,
with its flowers and birds and candies
and cakes and toys-well, some of us
older folks are likely to be seen up there.
HENRY M. Hunt.
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