The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1900-02-17
MODOC PHILANTHROPY.
Will Undertake to Educate Poor
Children of Topeka.


The Modoc club will not only build
itself a club house, as soon as it can
make the necessary arrangements and
raise the funds, but it viii also under
take a new work which will meet with
hearty approval. The club will under
take the musical education of the chill
dren of Topeka who are too poor to
pay for music lessons themselves, but
who love music.
IT'S just like this" said Major An
dersOn today. There are musical con-
servatories and institutions Of that kind
all over the country, but people have
to pay for what they learn in them.
The Modoc club proposes to employ
competent instructor of music to teach
music to the poor children of Topeka
who cannot pay for music lessons. We
will employ a teacher by the year to
give his or her entire time to the work.
I think we will probably employ a
woman because a woman takes to
teaching children more naturally than
a man.
There is nothing more elevating or
inspiring than music, especially to
children. 1t will quiet them and allow
them to give vent to their feelings when
otherwise they would be running the
streets and getting into mischief. A big
work can be done right here in Topeka
along that line. There is many a lit
tie chap on the streets of Topeka who
Will make a musician if given the
pIOp6I LId4IluB WIEI AG - young, anu
if he has his mind started in that d.
rection.
When the Modocs get their club
| house built they will endeavor to carry
| out this idea. The house will not be
occupied by the members to any great
extent during the day time, and there
will be an abundant opportunity for
drilling the children then"
L. NJ. Wood, the architect, who is a
/ MOdoc himself, has prepared plans for
a club house to cost about $4,000 AS
/ planned it will be a tWo-and-a-half
/ story structure, besides the basement,
and Will give an abundance of room
I for parlOrs, reception rooms library
reading room, dining rooms, and all
other apartments for a well-appointed
club house. On the second floor the
rooms are arranged SO that they can
be thrown together to form large re-
cital hall.
It is the desire of the club to have
some philanthropic person donate a site
/ for the house in some central location,
after which the members will begin to
work up the funds to secure the struc-
ture. It is desired to have it centrally
located so that it may be convenient for
the carrying out of their plans con-
corning the musical education Of the
young.
Arrangements will be made to admit
associate members to the club-men
who are not sufficiently musical to take
/ part in the concerts of the club, but
! who ENJOY music ana would be glad to
pay their dues for the privileges of the
club house. Not only Topeka men will
be admitted as associate members, but
men from all parts of the state. The
club house viii be equipped with baths
and all other requirements of a first
class club house, and when QUITO town
members come to the city they can
enjoy the privileges of the house as well
as anyone. There are doubtless many
wen-known Kansans who would be
glad to avail themselves of such a priv
ilege.