Industrial freedom. [volume] (Edison, Wash.) 1898-1???, 1898-12-17
Dear Children


Geo Herbert.
Dear Children
We have been remembered this week
by a little sister and big brother.
The little sister says:
Dear Sister Helen
My brother takes the Industrial
Freedom, and | read the Childrens
Corners. | think they are very nice
| like the story of the cat best.
am little girl eight years old and
go to school. l am in Ord grade,
class B. Miss Blackstone is my teach
er. will close, hoping to write
again. Carrie Veazie Bardwell.
Helena, Mont, Nov 25, '9S.
The big brother has a fine sugges-
ton for us. He wonders if the B c c
children wouldn't like to start a min
iature machinery fund, to buy some
small machinery to be used in an in
dustrial school for the children of
Equality.
Now it seems to me this would be
very nice thing for the clubs to work
for, wouldn't it? Suppose that all the
boys and girls who read Industrial
Little bennett wrote to us about,
among their friends and schoolmates?
They might call them Junior Unions
of the B c c. You know the big
brothers and sisters have their Unions
No. l, 2, 3, and SO on. Now wouldn't
it be nice to have your Junior Unions
No. l 2, 3, and so on, and see what
you can do, all working together, to-
ward starting an industrial training
school in Equality?
All the children whose fathers and
mothers belong to B c c unions, can
get their help in forming their Junior
Unions, and they can suggest ways in
Which the pennies may be earned, and
sent perhaps every month to the Iu-
Nor Machinery Fund; then we will
have it published in our Corner every
time a club or Junior Union sends any
thing for the fund.
Wouldn't it be a very happy thing
to think of, whether you intend to 90
to Equality to share in the use of the
machines or not, that you had found
ed an industrial school there, and that
the Equality children were learning to
do useful things with the help of the
machines that you had bought?
Perhaps those of YOU who live in
the country can get your parents to
help YOU get up little entertainments,
where you can speak pieces and sing
songs, etc, and charge a few cents
admission, and send the money to the
Junior Machinery Fund.
There is hardly any little boy or
girl who can't save penny here and
there, and all these pennies put to-
gether will do great deal.
| hope you will all think this over
and write to us about it, and perhaps
we shall have some helpful sugges-
tons through the Corner.
| haven't given the answers to any
of the riddles we had in the Corner,
because | have waited for YOU chill
dren to send the answers in your let
tiers; since yOn haven't sent them, |
think you must have guessed the rid
dies to yourselves, and would like to
know whether you have guessed right
Some of them were published so long
ago that you will have to hunt them
up to see which answers belong to
which riddles; but | hope all your
fathers and mothers keep a file of In
dustrial Freedoms, and if so, YOU will
not have much trouble to find them.
Here is the whole list
l. Churn.
2 Well.
3. One is an ink-lined plane Tin
clined plane), and the other is a slow
pup (slope up).
4. One is careless and happy, and
the other is hairless and cappv.
5. One is a hairy parent, another
is the heir apparent, and the third has
no hair apparent.
6. Wheelbarrow.
Z. Thimble.
Now send us some more riddles, and
we will give the answers in the next
number, if YOU send them with the
riddles.
Here is a funny story about a little
three-year-old boy who was learning
a Mother Goose verse: His papa had
said it over and over to him; it was
the verse about Little Jack Homer
who pulls out a plum and says what
a good boy am H." This little boy
hadn't said it himself at all, but had
just listened to his papa, when one
day he surprised his mamma very
much by beginning and saving it all
through, only he said it in this way:
little Dack Horner, sat in a torner,
Eating a tismas pie;
L,