The Washington herald., 1912-03-16
Juliet Baldwin Cottage National Junior Republic

ing-room, and the kitchen, and PAN
try. The last-named are what interest
the boys most / cannot say what is
above the first floor here, as this is
the girls house. and the house rules
read thus: NO boy shall go above the
first floor of the Baltimore Cottage.
Calling nights between $50 and $3.50
Sunday nights and Wednesday even
inEs only"
We have to obey these rules, so I'll
ask one OF the girls to write up the Sec
ond and third floors. The girls work all
together in their own house, and the boys
see them only on visiting evenings. and
when they are allowed 10 come over to
the library.
The cottage given as a memorial to
Miss Juliet c. Baldwin is our newest
cottage. 1t is a three-story frame
house, has a beautiful nving-room, and
steam heat, and twelve bedrooms con-
tanning each a bed, desk. bureau, and
chair of mission furniture.
How New Boy Is Treated.
The boys who get in this home think
they are lucky. and that the $L5 a week
in Republic money which they pay for
their board and lodging Is well spent
new boy comes into the Republic. and
Is taken into the Washington cottage,
and put in the dormitory. where he pays
50 cents a week for a bed, and s.. . a
week for board, and from there he works
his way up TO more luxurious quarters
II you were TO sit out of sight you
would hear some queer names. There
are two Pats" ''Beaky," Legs" PAN
anna" and others of the same sort. Some
are named from the places they come
from, some from personal peculiarities,
and some because of being Irish, Dutch.
&c.
This is the average day for a citizen
of the Republic: At s o'clock the first
bell rings, and at 6:l5 the second. The
boys get up, dress, and wash by 6:45,
and all are ready for breakfast. The
food is plain and wholesome, and the
kind that sticks to your ribs and makes
you grow.
After breakfast as they come out the
door they separate into two distinct
punches. One goes TO school and the
other to their different work. The school
day is divided into two parts for each
class and the first half is the high school
classes each boy spending two hours
in regular study and two hours in man.
ual training.
Those who attend school in the morning
go to work in the afternoon. In the first
section is the storekeeper, who is also
Juoge, the DOy VINO urlNeS down 10 meet
the trains is president, the head printer
Is vice president. three farm boys, two
kitchen boys, and a prisoner.
The boys make book racks, tables,
desks, tabourets, and post card holders
in the manual training work. each accord
ing to his ability and strength.
The Republic idea is to take boys that
have not been well trained and make
them into good citizens OF the United
States. They don't treat boy like a
criminal, because he has been bad be-
fore he came 10 the Republic. He may
not have always done as he should be-
fore he came. but after he comes, he is
just one of the boys, and no one ever
inquiries what he was in the city SO long
as he does not try to ply the same trade
out here. A boy comes and perhaps takes
for his own something belonging to a
fellow-citizen; he is found out, Is tried
in court by boys OF his own Republic,
most of whom he probably knows, SEN
fenced by a judge who has often talked
and played with him. and taken to jail
by an officer with whom he mas been the
best OF friends before.
The boys don't go easy on a fellow like
that. and he soon begins to understand
that he can't steal out here.
After he has served his term in jail
and goes back to the Washington Cot