The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1908-12-27
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as been changed frequently, but always
s aim has been TO carry on the work
where it was most needed-that is, where
the home surroundings were of the poor
est. and, inGeed, the most vicious. For
some years it held the open door on Mar
ket street, and later il opened more
attractive place in the old Thirteenth
The Free kindergarten.
ward meeting house. directly across from
the northern end of Franklin avenue.
From this low den, and from all the sur
rounding places in the very heart of vice
as it has existed it drew the little ones,
and in more than few cases this draw
ing meant literally going and taking
the children from the homes. Many times
the young women in charge have helped
the helpless, shiftless mothers to make
their little charges ready for school,
when otherwise there would have been no
possibility of their attending.
With the help of mothers meetings,
parents days, tea parties and the fes-
tivities of the Christmas time. these sor-
did people TO whom belonged the little
ones of the school were drawn into a
better life and given to see real I'M
selfish devotion from others. which must
have inspired a small degree of the same
qualities in themselves. Through the Free
Kindergarten more well directed charity
has gone to the slum element in Salt Lake
than through many other sources COM
bined
Aid From University. e
For some years past the head of the
kindergarten department of the state uni
versity has worked in conjunction with
the women of the Free Kindergarten
board, supplying practice teachers and
giving aid in a professional way 10 the
young kindergarten in charge. For a
few years past the public has taken a
hand in maintaining this beneficent work
by patronizing some of the clever SEM
professional people in their presentation
of plays given for the benefit OF the
Free kindergarten. Mainly. however, the
work has been kept up, as nearly all
charity work in Salt Lake has been.
through the individual efforts of those
who took up the work. Private ind-
viduals have given largely and gener-
ously; others have given according TO
their means. but large part of the sup
port has come from the various women 6
clubs of the city
Following their custom of going where
the need is greatest, the Free kindergar-
ten will open. just after the holidays. in
its new quarters on Fourth West, where
its little charges will come from the new
Greek settlement, the poorer classes of
the railroad employees and the undesirable
element TO be established there. The
work Will be directly under the super
vision of the head of the kindergarten
department Of the university and will be
well up to modern methods in all ways.
Through the generosity of Colonel L. A.
Wall. a better fund than usual has been
secured TO begin the work of the winter
weather. and it is hoped that this most
helpful of all charities will be able to
continue its good work for the uplifting
of the little ones and of the cOmmun-
ity Of which they form the growing ele-
ment
success of this work are Mrs l. E. Hall.
Mrs. J. NJ Dart. Mrs. F. S. Richards,
Mrs. Simon Bamberger Mrs Elmer b.
Jones. Mrs. Selden Clawson. Mrs. Henry