The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1904-06-09

axSxRx cr and Concerts and Tea Room
Say Factory EmpI0yees-Worke
Fgeth a Taste For Moliere's Plays.
Schools and Day Nursery Main
na2ned by Mill Company.
Is will surprise many readers to
SsxxTn that there are points in the social
z28 industrial welfare movement for
MaiGh democratic America may look
Exp TO autocratic Russia. That such is
ss3@ ease DR.. William II. Tolman, head
So The American Institute of Social
sSEyyice. indicates in al article in the
K38y number of the institutes official
gEs4ication, Social Service.
B0g instance, at Popof's factory, not
gGs from Moscow, there is a popular
zsggater with accommodations for some
sSis2 The plays are given from Z to 10
s9&30ck in the evening of fete days in
zzBmer and winter. There is no stock
axGapany, the roles being filed by the
alssks and workmen. Each play costs
9sEaarily S64.5O, but the admission is
gsae. The company chooses the plays,
saa8 those found to be most preferred
BIZ by two Russian authors, while
A83iere comes third. In addition to the
szz2Eatricals readings are given in the
azlse building every Sunday evening
9ssEgga 6 to 8 o'clock from works ap-
EsUTed by the minister of public in
aEEgetion.
Musical evenings are also furnished
&g an orchestra and a chorus compOs-
sd exclusively of the workmen in the
anssory. A tea room was opened in 1895
ysSeh contains an organ. stereoscope,
D. A&lliard table and other games; also
Ezssrs and magazines selected from a
zs@sial cata !Ogue Of books permitted to
As read by the people. Admission to
xss room is free, not only for the work
xaxn, but others. A dining room was
sss,s8e6 the same year, with prices grad
&a according to the monthly wages.
a. the Norsky mandatory another
NJ Russia's industrial welfare move
MaE1ts is to be studied. Readings are
given each Sunday from October to
DsrD parts. the first concerned with re-
ygSous or moral works and the second
swaA classic works. The space of three
,gsgEs is allotted to Russian history,
18th illustrations of notable events by
zxss0ns of lantern slides.
Still further example of Russian
ssGgress in this direction is to be seen
nj another factory, where lectures are
gsgen every Sunday and fete day by re-
ss.AollS teachers or technical engineers
Vladimir T. Gnesin writes for the
zaxE2e number of the above mentioned
Ssa1alcation concerning the great Jaro-
aAssw mills in Russia. founded under Pc
ssse the Great Besides social welfare
arrangements such as DR.. Tolman de-
sag5bes the company running these
mills provides nursery for the care OF
aEsgnts whose mothers are obliged to
as@ out to work. For children Of five
~ ten years there is a kindergarten
xfksnded daily by about 700 boys and
girls, and for still older children of
employees there are several schools in
SDA-1IA pAy (OIlOlC 1Ol Tic
gEgls needlework are taught besides
4zsss usual school subjects.
& society founded in 1897 in st. Pc
ssazS0urg was the first attempt in Rus
2sR 10 aid girls Of the working classes
Ia their hard struggle for life.
The activity Of this society mani
SsgEs itself particularly in Sunday as
sesnblies, which give young women the
feasibility Of passing Their time On this
lay prohtably, sensibly and agreeably
2SEal instruction is given by priest.
ss1a8 there are simple lectures on his
2gy, geography, hygiene and art, the
thEks being always illustrated with Ian
sgsD pictures.
-gsse society has established two
sAsafdfng houses, one receiving some
skgty girls and the other about a hun
ARID. On the payment of $3.50 a month
Sas working girl may have a bed in
sasgmitory, little wardrobe, with the
lSsSyilege of the parlor and a commo-
sssBns kitchen. with cooking utensils.