New-York tribune., 1902-08-24

But In the season when the thermometer and
barometer conduct themselves in conventional
manner they do something besides dance at Green
point For instance. the Sophie May Club dressed
dolls last winter Sophie May wrote the immortal
''Prudy" and ''Dotty Dmple' books. and the
Sophie May Club is composed OF young women of
age 10 be Interested in those classics
ATTRACTIVE SEWING.
literary club. though. Oh. dear. no;
The girls prefer do things. So last winter they
dressed dolls. made complete outfits for them
underclothes and dainty little frocks of lawn OF
organdie. with lace yokes vests The selection
of the material left to them, and they all
chose pink. At the end of the club season they
had sixteen splendid dolls; and then, with the club
director they all went one morning to the Kings a
crippled children Not OF the little dressmakers
happiness of giving They Ser of IS dnS
deai more interest in learning to sew by making
delightful little things TO wear than by straiSht
classes make complete doll outfits. including full
sets Of bedding pillows and all Then they turn
who put them to ample and excellent After
to the ability Of the girl she goes into the
chine and shrtwaist classes. There are millinery
be painful exodus each year after the blooming
of tbs Easter bonnet; But the girls learn to make
their own hats, and some of them take orders
among their associates; pleasing addition ',s. to
sfn In getting 9p hats @ at small COST One dis
played with pride an attractive ana tas1taul t nut
DRESS WELL. BUT EAT LITTLE
But 1t is really sewing. but cooking. in which
classes are most useful This is neighborhood
composed In the main of thrifty working people,
people with whom it is matter OF natural and
laudable pride appear we'll
II have seen" said worker, children ready
for Sunday school, fresh and dainty as spring
flowers, who had had nourishInent Tor twenty
four hours save bread and tea III you met them
with me on the street you might complain that We
the Settlement gave our time TO cmioreh VINO
an economical diet yet II seems the universal one
here when the housekeeping funds are low II our
gard ii In an unfavorable light, and demand oat-
meal instead, they would revolutionize the Green
point world. The tea and conee habit Is strong
with small children. | once surprised boy OF
four In the drinking of his midday coffee, and per-
suaded his mother to take it from him. said he
only thirsty. and would IKE Eva water instead
dismally for fifteen minutes. panlsned from his
cup. | have slight hope that for such juve-
would seem If they were too young to scent the
The other Juvenile habit OF which the residents
have taken cognizance is the candy habit which
obtains throughout all tenement house regions Al
the Cireenpoint Settlement they think that the
penny savings bank is the best check to the candy
habit III a child once 81 even 80 cents hs
does not spend it in candy; II is too big 1t goes
for clothes outing either one beneficial in
the aving of it, and the relief the tortured
stomach from the disgusting compounds put into
Penny Provident at the Settlement, and in the siy
wears since the system introduced more than
s2Ooo has been deposited Most of it, as in ALI the
keeps two accounts-one for his clothes nona,yy
another for the money he means to let accumulate
bers in the hall and sit on the stairs-there are a
great many stair9 At Greenpotnt Settlement .Thero