The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-22

Bethel social settlement is the center
of busy Whirl of clubs and gatherings
this winter and from Monday until Sat
urday the visitor is almost sure to stun
BILE into a group of women, girls or boys
who are assembled for some definite pur-
pose. Miss Guthrie is the head resident
and she has with her at the settlement
Miss Lillian Varney,. associate resident.
Miss Elizabeth Taylor, head nurse and
Miss Fitzgerald who attends the univer-
sity during the day and is a moving spirit
at the settlement in the evening.
The kindergarten fills the spacious room
with little people five days in the week.
Mrs. Mary Wooley is the director, as she
has been for several years, and her assist
ant is Miss Sara Ellison. There are about
seventy-fve wee boys and girls in the
kindergarten and the shy little ones are
the newcomers who have taken the place
of the class that was graduated at the
opening of the spring term Of the public
schools. There Is quite a waiting list for
the applications are always in advance of
the vacancies.
The day nursery has on an average
twenty babies who spend happy days there
while their mothers are at work. The
babies dearly love the nursery and one
young man is so insistent in his demand
to be taken there, even when his mother
has become a regular visitor and ap-
pears with each new day. There are toys
for the mites to play with, soft beds for
them to nap on ard luncheon for them
to eat at luncheon time, and all of this,
with a sympathetic, intelligent nurse is
furnished for 8 cents a day. The other
afternoon there were more babies than
cribs and the little ones had fallen asleep
| on the broad seat, while two were in
nearly every cot. ... ...-. --...
| The weekly list of clubs opens Monday
| afternoon with the Willing Workers.
| There are twelve of them and they are
| nearly all ~ years of age. They spend
| an hour learning to embroider with Miss
| Reyes and another hour in ,gymnastic
work with Miss Burke. Later in the
afternoon meets the Good Little Neigh
bors, a club composed Of boys and girls
about Z years of age. They are just
learning to sew and are being helped in
their stitches by the Misses Brown. In
| the evening the Wa-wa- ma girls come to
| the settlement for instruction in bas-
kerry from Miss Walters and Miss Burke
| and, after an hour with rattan and raffia,
! they take a dancing lesson from Miss NAL
! colin. The Wa-Wa"nas number about
eighteen and the n embership includes the
young women in the neighborhcod.
The Busy Bees come Tuesday afternoon
| with their fancy work and the hour with
the needle is followed by gymnastic ex-
ercise with Miss Whitmore. Miss Harmon
| has had charge of the sewing hour, but
she is going away and the twelve Busy
Bees will be without leader. Tuesday
evening Miss Malcolm has had class
of twenty five boys and girls for a dane
ing lesson, but the lessons have been dis
| continued during Lent.
! The Woman's League meets Wednesday
afternoon. Mrs. Porch is president, Mrs.
Barber secretary and Mrs. Olson treas
urer. Every alternate week they have
travel talks or short description of
something in natural history from Miss
Goodsell, and on the other afternoons,
Miss Pyler has an embroidery class.
| There are about thirty women in the
league and as they are all interested in
the meetings, the attendance is about as
| large as the membership.
| At o'clock Wednesday afternoon the
Daisy club comes for lessen in kitchen
! gardening. There are eighteen Daisies
and they learn to set the table and make
beds to the accompaniment of music.
After the lesson Miss Katibel Chadbourn
| gives them a gymnasium drill and she is
assisted by Misses Fuller and Katibel
E., Waldo.
Wednesday evening brings the Lincoln
| club, eighteen boys, who are taking sloyd
with Mr.. Harrington, gymnasium work
with Mr.. Harsh and chair-caning with
Mr. Gregg, who tells them most fascin-
ating stories as they handle their tools.
The boys are about IL years old and have
| learned considerable during the winter.
| The Rainbow club, under Miss Chad
bourn, comes Thursday afternoon for gym
! nasium exercises, and later there Is a
lesson in elocution from Miss Sanford.
The Roosevelt club is composed Of ten
| boys, who play games directed by Miss
Hanson. They have made several scrap
| books and are kept busy and happy. In
the evening the Manson club of boys, II
years old, have gymnasium work with Mr..
| Harsh
Friday afternoon is devoted to the