The Washington herald., 1912-11-24
GREAT ''DO|N's"
FOR YOUNG FOLK
Neighborhood House Holds Recep-
ton and Youngsters
"Show Off,"
"BO0FUL LADIES" POUR TEA
AND CHILDREN SING
Work Being Done for Young
America Arouses Great
Enthusiasm.

Neighborhood House, 40 N Street
Southwest, had great ''doin's" yesterday
afternoon, for the boys and girls who
work and play there were at home to
the grownNupN folks, who help to make
that delightfully."- informal club possible.
Really, It might be called a party that
the Neighborhood House boys and girls
had, for besides showing of the pretty
baskets and needlework that Neighbor-
hood Club members had made, and tell
ing about what each room and hall was
for, the house offered things to eat. and
''booful ladies' poured tea
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. S. Neigh and Miss
Levina Woodwork. who live at Neigh
borhOod House and have immediate
charge of the industrial, social, and
who helps look after the finances of
the house, were a general reception
committee. and showed the visitors
through the house and through the In
fants' and Children's Dispensary, next
door, where DIR. w. ]. French and Miss
Ruth Merrill preside as physician and
nurse.
Some Remarkable Rooms.
There were some remarkable rooms
there. There was a loom room where
rugs and fine fabrics were being woven
with wonderful deftness by little hands
that had not long been trained to the
work. There was dye room, where
young girls were coloring beautiful stuffs
with a process that outside of Paris
only Neighborhood House knows. Neigh
borhood House learned it through the
kindness of Mrs. Christian Hemmlck,
who has done so much for the house.
There were sewing rooms, and wash
rooms, and a resplendent kitchen. where
the girls who make NeighborhoOd House
sort of second home learn to cook
dainty, edible, nutritious foods A din
ing-room, neatly set, was hard by, and
the little cooks served some of their
guests there.
Though there was no program. a class
of girls sang songs as they sat at their
sewing. and up in the day nursery two
babies cooed a welcome. They seemed
to like the diversion.
Boys Provided For.
Now, back of Neighborhood House is
the first public playground ever opened
in Washington, and Neighborhood
folks are proud to show it. Thirteen
thousand children played in it last
summer, and it's rather small too But
yesterday the Neighborhood folks took
their visitors across the playground to
the workshop. where pretty baskets are
made. And above the workrooms there
were the boys clubrooms, in which the
boys were playing pool and billiards.
and talking about their several
gangs" now grown into True Ameri-
cans" Progress Eagles" and half
a dozen other clubs"
Neighborhood House boys and girls
took great delight yesterday in telling
visitors just how important their work
is. For they not only have a kinder
garten school and Fairgrounds and
clubrooms and those delights. but the
grown folks of the neighborhood use
Neighborhood House at night to play
billiards and pool, to read-for there
is a branch Of the Public Library there
to talk, and they have little dances
there, and the young men and maidens
sit together in the parlors and talk Of
their important affairs.
A Busy Place.
It's a very busy place all the time,
that NeighbOEhood House.
Besides the resident workers there was
a reception committee of Miss Sophia
Siebert, Miss Amaryllis Gillett, Mrs
Christian D. Hemmick Mrs Adelia
Gates Hensley. Mrs. Archibald Hopkins,
Mrs Adolph Kahn, Mrs. Norton NJ. Lit
tie. and Col Thomas w. Symons. Miss
Elizabeth Noyes, Miss Ruth Larner, and
Miss Ruth Bliss presided at the tea
table.
The volunteer workers, to whose aid
much of the success of Neighborhood
House is attributed, are Miss V. J. Ar
mold. Miss Irene Banes, Miss Lena Barg-
hausen. Miss Behn. Miss Esther Behrend,
Miss A. B. Browne. Miss Gertrude
Burgess, Miss Eileen Garland. Miss
Louise Fndicott Mrs William EtheIl
Miss Edna Frank, DR.. William ]. French.
Bruce Cleveland, Mrs. ellison Gardner.
Miss Gri1kh. Mrs. Goldenberg, Mrs. Ray
mond K.Hall. Miss Vera Hambly, Miss
Ruth Henderschott, Miss Estelle Ions,
Miss Marguerite Kaufman. Miss Koenigs-
berger, Miss Leet. Hadley Marsh, Miss
Beryl McCauley. Miss Marguerite Mum.
Miss Byrne Neal. Miss Elizabeth Noyes,
Mrs. Simon Nye, Miss Clara Scott, Miss
Dora Schiffman, Miss Martha Struble,
Miss Media Waldecker, Miss Katherine