The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-07-30
HAPPY ORPHANS.
Little People Picnicked on
Washburn College Campus.
Had Plenty of Pink and White
Ice Cream.

For week the girls and boys of the
Topeka Orphans home have been look
ing forward with exceeding JOY to a
picnic which had been promised them
and Wednesday afternoon the event
took place on Washburn campus with
all the pomp and circumstance COM
patible with the picnic idea.
The matron of the home, Mrs. Mary
E. Throssell. Mrs. J. F. Daniels, presi-
dent of the Orphans home society, and
other officers and members of the board
were the care takers and chaperons-
There were several of their children in
the party and the husbands drove out
in time for supper.
There are eleven children at the Or
phans' home now who are old enough
to go to a picnic. and it was for them
the affair was planned. Most of these
children are boys because although
homes are readily found for little girls
and especially for girl babies. people
seem to regard a founding boy as a
bad risk and nobody seems to want
to adopt them. So of the nine boys at
the picnic yesterday the majority have
been raised in the Orphans home and
have never known another and their
manners and appearance speak well for
the institution. They were all neatly
and comfortably dressed and looked al
most well when they went away as
they did when they arrived although
they had romped and played all the
afternoon. They wore good shoes and
stockings and pretty shirt waists ana
trousers and sailor hats and the little
girls were in dainty white or light col
Ored frocks. Their manners at table
and their general behavior were so
good as to make it evident that the
busy matrons and nurses of the home
have found time to devote to this de-
tail of their well being There was
truly not repulsive or even unattrac-
tive child among them and nothing in
their appearance or their actions to in
dictate that they have been brought up
in fOundling's asylum.
The children and their chaperons
drove out to Washburn in big covered
picnic wagon dIaped with red, white
and blue bunting. The boys crowded
around the drivers seat to watch tie
horses and his wonderful management
of them and the girls sat down primly
and politely and spread out their skirts
so as not to get them mussed. After
they reached the picnic grounds. about
o'clock. they played games and rolled
in the grass until supper time. There
was no quarrelling or squa billing and
the matron, Mrs. Throssell, says that
although the children have their little
"spatS'' at the Home they are not more
frequent or alarming than occur in any
family where there are Il number OF
little ones to contest their rights in work
and play. The children were not only
orderly and courteous but they used
good English, the talk of cultivated peo-
pie.
Supper was served at half past
O'Clock and it was certainly a scrump-
tious supper The cloth was spread on
the grass and all the children were put
together at one end and all the grown
UPS at the other and the matron ana
some of the other ladies' acted as wait
ers There was an abundance of fried
chicken. sliced ham, baked beans, po-
tato salad. bread and butter. pickles,
deviled eggs, veal loaf, cookies cake,
strawberry and vanilla ice cream lemon
ade, peaches and candy. The boys mad
the time of their lives,
Are you having fun - someone asked
little Willis four years old, a handsome
boy with big brown eyes and a ninety
shaped head. "Yeth," he answered
beaming up from a heaped plate. ''e:at-
ing pink and white ithe-cweam."
Everything that was left. and lots
was left owing to the generosity Win
which the ladies had provided for the
supper. was taken back to the Home
for the children to finish today They
got home about o'clock. little after
the usual bedtime, but then this was
an unusual occasion
The grown ups who gave the picnic
and shared their pleasure with the emil
dre- of the Home were Mr.. and Mrs
II, s Woolve-ton. Mr.. and Mrs. w. F.
Schoch. Mr.. ard Mrs. Clement Smith.
Mr.. and Mrs w. n. Davis. Mr.. and
Mrs. w. c. Garvey, DR., and Mrs. Ham
mond. Mrs J. F. Daniels, Mrs. Harry
Lindsey. Mrs Charles Youngreen and
Miss Hazel Wolff