The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1910-05-22
BY LAWRENCE HANDLEY.

The committee from the Indiana
Division. Sons of Veterans, who visit
ed the Indiana Soldiers and Sailors
Tuesday came away full of enthusiasm
for the grand work that is being car
ried on by the state of Indiana in this
training school for the orphans of In
diana's soldiers and sailors. Compare
lively few of our citizens know any
thing of the detail work of that insti-
tuition. The home is situated about
two miles south of knightstown on
farm of 24O acres, Of which the build
ings and lawns occupy about % acres.
The buildings are models of comfort
and convenience. and consist of the ad-
ministration building and dormitories
for the girls, Lincoln hall, the dining
hall, laundry, printing office, hospital
greenhouses. school building. bakery
and store rooms. and about eight dou-
BILE cottages in which are quartered the
boys. The children are divided in
what are called Divisions" and each
division placed in charge of govern
ess who is mother to that division,
and who looks after the welfare of her
children as carefully as any mother
could. The schools are organized
along the exact line of the schools
throughout the state. The course con-
sists of kindergarten and nine years
work. Children are taken into the
kindergarten work at the age of 31a
years and it is truly wonderful to see
h> hox oh,
has reached the age of thirteen only
half a day is given to school room
work and the other half to the learn
ing of some trade. Under competent
instructors they are taught farming.
gardening, Horticulture, engineering.
printing, carpentering, painting and pa
per hanging, tailoring. sewing. laun-
dering, cooking, shorthand and type
writing, and baking. Instructors to
the number of thirty are employed be-
side the governesses. Every effort is
made to give the children perfect
home life and to fit them to go out into
the world and make a place for them
selves at least equal to that which the
average citizen enjoys.
DR. w. T. Stott. superintendent, and
his wife, who is matron, have great
pride in the accomplishments of their
charges. and are never happier than
when showing the practical workings
of the institution to those who are in
terested. The enrolment of the insti-
tuition is gradually growing smaller as
the number of orphans of the soldiers
and sailors of 81 to go under the age
of is is rapidly growing less. Or
phans of deceased Union soldiers or
sailors of the late civil war, Or in the
war with Spain, or in the war in the
Philippine islands, also children OF
permanently disabled or INDECENT SOL
diers or sailors residing in this state
or in the National Soldiers homes. are
eligible for admission and application
should be made to DR.. w. T. Stott for
such admission. The capacity OF the
home is 600, but at the present time
there are only 400 there. This num-
Der enables the home authorities to
give them much better training than
when the home is filled to it's capacity.
A class of 81 will graduate the latter
part of June and be ready to leave the
home and take up their work in the
real life of the world.
Sanitary. conditions are carefully
looked after and the health of the chill
dren can be judged when it is known
that but one death has occurred in the