Evening journal., 1910-07-29
MOTHERS HEAR OF
PLAY GROUND WORK
Miss Weaver Tells Parents
Workers would Have
More Outing Places
PLAN FIELD DAY
FOR CITY KIDDIES

The first Mothers Meeting, nciu
yesterday afternoon at llirkwoOd
Park playground. was a success, and
it is probable that others will be ar
ranged. Miss Jennie NJ Weaver, play
grounds superintendent. and Miss
Ella NJ. Tyre. director of Kirkwood
grounds, met with the mothers. Miss
Weaver announced that on Saturday
week. August 8, general Field Day
of all the Fairgrounds will be held,
probably on the triangle across Wash
ington street bridge. The games and
events will be held early In the af-
/ ternoon, aud children from all the
municipal Fairgrounds will partici-
pate In the exercises. The purpose
/ is TO give q practical demonstration
1 TO the people of Wilmington. Of the
good the Fairgrounds have done, in
! the hope of arousing public interest
so that the work will be extended
next year II is hoped that many
persons will attend the Field Day.
Miss Weaver told the mothers that
Il was the desire OF the playground
workers to have public Fairgrounds i'm
every ward. so that the children
would not have TO go more than -four
or five squares from home 10 reach
one. Parents were uneasy about let.
ting their children go far from home
and rightly so. She spoke Of tbs
difference I'm the health Of playground
children. which was very noticeable
Many pale. frail children were visihl
growing more sun burned and sturd
every day. Miss Weaver congratu
lated the instructors each of whoI
she said was giving more time All
thought than was IN proportion
} their small salary.
At the Field Day. the little girl
will wear light dresses and caps. Tn
caps are being made by the childre
at the various grounds, Miss Weave
told the mothers, and each groun
Will have p different color. Kirk
wood is cherry and black; Delamorf
blue and white. West End. dark re-
and gold; and Pine street. green, tn
Pine streeters selecting that colo
because we're Irish.
Miss Tyre invited the mothers ant
the daughters to straw-ride mex
Tuesday They will leave Kirkwool
Park about Q o'clock in the morning
and return I'm the afternoon Th'
destination has not yet been chosen
but il will be near some stream, 81
the girls can go wading Kirkwoo'
boys are going Oh a grabbing party
maybe on Monday. Il depends Of
whether they get their nets finished
for the boys have been knotting thei
own nets. Miss Tyre told the mother
that all the industrial work given thl
children was for som practical end
and that skill i'm using their hand
would help the children I'm everything
they undertook.
The remainder of the meeting wa
spent in making pasteboard receivers
that the mothers might see what sor
of work was given to the girls. Tit
fringe of small boys and girls whit
attended the meeting we're much in
terested in seeing how we'll the moth
ers did the work.
The mothers. who are good author
ity, commended the Fairgrounds high
! ly A number of them spoke of nov
much easier they had found It TO man
age the boys this summer. A mum
Der of mothers from Delamore Parl
d neighborhood, on their own initiative
came over to Kirkwood Park las
week to compare the two grounds.
Miss Weaver says that in equip
ment, the grounds compare. favorabl
with Philadelphia, and that it is sur
prising how much has been done wit
the money appropriated. One Of tn
best satisfied people at Kirkwoo
b Park is Park Guard John Evans. VIII
has been a great help TO the instruc
tors and is on hand for everythin
from sand-piles TO athletic meets
Guard Evans thinks the children ar
2 easier to handle this summer becaus
! they have plenty to do. and they al
keep together in punches, instead &
scattering all over the park.