The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1905-08-31
Kenosha's Summer Home for Chi
cago Waits the Topic for Long
Write Up in a Big Magazine
PRAISES WORK OF SISTERS
Mrs. Euphemia Holden of Chicago Tells
Of the Work That Is Being Done
by the Sisters of ST. Mary at
Pier Home, Kenosha

That the summer home for children,
under the auspices Of the Sisters Of
st. Mary, located on the lake shore,
just south of Kemper hall, is attract
ing national attention is shown by the
fact that the Pilgrim Magazine for
September will give an entire page to
showing up the work that is being
done by the sisters in Kenosha.
The article is written by Mrs. Eu-
phemia Holden of Chicago, who, after
discussing the arrangements of the
home and the children, gives the fol-
lowing pretty story of the every day
life at Pier cottage:
{ ''This pleasant summer life is af-
forded these city children at Kemper
hall, Kenosha, half way between Chi
cago and Milwaukee. Kemper hall
itself is school, sisterhood, sum-
mer home, a parish with a priest, al
most diocese. The home consists
of two or three long frame cottages
adjacent to the beautiful lawn and
splendid trees of the school grounds.
Everything is in charge of the Sisters
of St. Mary, who, during the rest Of
the year, take care of theseEhome1ess
children in fine new building which
they have built on the west side in
Chicago, sending the older children to
the public school.
Some of them have been committed
by the Judges of the juvenile courts
in that city because of the unftness
of their natural guardians. Some are
placed there by parents who cannot
control them or because one of the
parents is dead and the survivor is
unable to care for them at home.
Others are orphans. The parents of
some of the children pay small sum
for board. No one is more aware of
this distinction than the young aris-
tocrats themselves. Theyshasten to
inform visitors of this mark of .super.
iority, as of any other advantage,
from an uncle who is British baron.
ct to an aunt with piano.
"When, with a baby cart full of
provisions, they go on picnics-for,
after all, what is picnic but some
thing eaten in an unusual place
quiet settles on the nursery. But in
the laundry, dining and sewing rooms
work goes on as usual. Each of the
older girls has an ironing hour" dur
ing the day. They do very credita bic
work in laundering the dozens Of little
white aprons and caps, but do not
succeed quite as well with the stiff
collars and caps worn by the sisters.
Small brothers occasionally enjoy
the privileges of the summer home.
Once boy of four became devoted to
a little girl of the same age who re-
his feelings at capricious
intervals. One day an unusually cold
reception of his attentions hurt his
tender bosom.
"'Don't you love me, Elma?' he
p1aintive1y beseeched.
mo, she replied with toss of her
head.
"'You ulster, Elma, you uster,' he
walled, as many discarded lover be-
side himself has done.
zone of them took her doll into the
lake with her where they frequently
battle.
Won't she take cold,' asked a
spectator.
"'She never has, replied the young
mother, and she is week old.
"Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
the saddest are those which tell that
a mother of one of these little children
is a drunkard. Three children of such
mother were committed to the home.
What is your mothers name?'
asked some one, ignorant of the awk-
ward nature of the question.
"She hesitated a moment before re-
plying: Her name now is Sister
Frances.
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