Martinsburg herald. [volume] (Martinsburg, W. Va.) 1881-1920, 1902-10-18
THE HOME FOR GIRLS
$4,000 is Wanted For Projected
New Buildings,
NEW PLANS WILL BE ASKED
Also Appointment Of State Agent-Dt, Jones
Preparing His Report.

III IAiEAEt DVhNSs ftAS1AhtAAA Va
the board OF directors of the Industrial
Home for Girls st Salem W., Va, is
busy preparing her report to be pre-
sented to the governor. The document
will cover the past two years history
of the institution and will recommend
the appropriation by the legislature of
money for two additional buildings
each costing not less than S25. 600
One of these buildings will be TO fur
nish Accommodations for more white
girls in the institution as it now
stands, and the other will be for the
coloreS inmates The home now has
100 more applicants than it can take.
The renort will also recommend the
appointment of state agent TO look
after the joint interests of the Humane
society, the Industrial Home for Girls
and the Reform school at Pruntytown.
1t would be the duty of this agent TO
see that none but eligible girls were
admitted to the home. and that none
but good families received the girls
into their homes. These additions were
decided to be necessary at the meeting
of the. board of directors October 1st.
FOUNDER OF HOME TALKS.
DIR. Jones stated Monday evening
that the home is in a fiourishing con-
dition. Her report will show the most
gratifying results of the labors of the
| last two wears. She. especially praises
the work of the present superinten-
dent, Miss Elizabeth Clohan. who bv
the way. is sister of Postmaster Clo-
han. Of this city.
'sThe directors are unanimous in the
belief that she is the best woman we
could possibly get for the place. She
is a good. kind, patient, Christian
woman She looks after both their
spiritual and physical welfare and has
completely won the hearts of the girls.
Though she exacts rigid conformity to
discipline, they adore her.
THE FARM FLOURISHES.
CAS- sample of the good results of
the work of the girls, the little farm,
which only covers about 40 acres, =
said DIR. Jones. made nearly fifteen
hundred dollars during the last two
years. They raise on it all the veee
tables necessary III the home and sell
} what they do not need in the surround
ing towns. The garden truck raised
is of the finest As sample, one Of
the pumpkins this fall weighed 40
, pounds.
Another important order passed at
the meetingof the board was the extern
sion of the time limit of the girls in
the home to two years. Heretofore we
have had no regular time, but we find
that it requires at least two years to
accomplish the object for which the
home was founded We find that in
two years girls who We're the most un-
promising material have become accom-
plished in cooking. sewing, baking
and the various requisites of house
keeper Many of them enter excellent
homes, or marry good men and enter
the new life well equipped to meet its
many requirements. You would be
surprised to find how bright some of
them are
'tWe have the girls graded or CLASH
fed. It takes one of them about wear
! to go through all the different depart
ments. If she is not efficient at the
; end of that time she is made TO go
over the work again. The girls all
wear neat. blue calico dresses and
! snug caps. and cleanliness and taste in
dress are compelled at all times. The
tables at which tho girls eat are diff
erent from those of most institutions
of the kind White, but coarse table,
clothes ami napkins are used and sill
yer knives and forks These NAV seem
extravagances to some people but we
do not consider them so, for ii gives
the girls a refinement which fits them
for entrance into any family.
WE'LL SITUATED.
'sThe home is well situated, on a
beautiful elevation just outside OF Sal
lem. 1t is surrounded with well kept
lawns and just secluded enough to suit
its ends When the home was Arst
started we had trouble with some OF
the girls running away but that has
become thing of the past. Many
of the girls who have left and done
we'll, love to return and visit the place
which has pleasant associations, and
which has done so much for them. As
a sample of the good work the home
has done for one of the girls she has
been adontad by one of the well to do