The Washington times., 1914-12-31
Curtail. But Refuse to Stop
NeiQhb0rh00d Houses Work
Managers, Undaunted by Deficit,
Determined to Struqule
Along Until Further Support
for Efforts Is Received.

Neigh6orhood House nil con-
time It's Work.
This positipe announcement
mas made today, despite the fl.
Hdncidi deficit for current expenses
that settlement now faces.
With the same courage that has
marked their struggle, hard worI:
and sacrifice for sepen years,
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. P. S. Neigh, resi-
dent workers, nil continue to
conduct the settlement that minis
tiers TO the needs of grown-upS
and children, alike, in one OF
Washington's most congested Sec
lions.
Unique among such institutions
for its Uide range of activities. the
settlement may haze to curtau its
pork, but it mill not close its
doors.
BY J. R. HILDEBRAND.
In but one place in the United States
is there combined social ana indus
trial center.
That institution is the SeishborhCod
House. 1910 n street southwest. Today
after long struggle. Mr.. and Mrs. ].
=. ). Neigh, who. for seven Years have
| developed the activities OF this settle
ment, fsce a deficit for running OK
| penses. Heretofore the house has man
aged 10 live up to its motto OF Pay as
you go" which it breaches 10 residents
| of the community
But Neighborhood House viii cor
TIME its work. Some of It's activities
may be curtailed. II may not serve
Its friends AS adequately as their needs
demand. But Naighborhood House, the
word went forth today. will struggle
on, in the hope that the generosity of
Washington giyers soon will he directed
again to homo institutions
IN 1907 came Mr.. and Mrs. Nelisn to
Neighborhood House. and the settle
mont entered upon a rev. era Of lis
history. Both college graduates. and
both having held lucrative teaching po-
eitions. they quit that field TO blaze a
path into which scores OF educators
since have trod.
Pioneers In Field.
After notable work in Chica2o. Ihey
went TO Columbus, Ga, and there
worked out 4 primary industrial school
system for mill children ,n connection
with the public schools. Then they
came TO Washington TO live at Neigh
borhood House and became pioneers of
the industrial education idea here.
Today. though there has been wide
agitation for vocational training in
Washington, \eiahborhood House still
rs several laps ahead OF the school sys-
tenn Last year the model house was
constructed there. and this year that
house was turned over TO the domestic
rcience department Of the public
schools. Cooking and SEWING and MILL
merry are taught separately in the
schools. Only in tpe model house or III"
Neighborhood settlement IS domestic
science in ali its phases. cooking. iaun-
dr-y. house cleaning. sewing. etc. taught
under actual conditions which confront
the young housewife in her own home.
Mrs. Neigh planned that house after
the actual homes round IN tue dlle1S
and streets inhabited by unskilied la
borers The furnishing, supplying
eycr--thinS needed for coUforI, was
de-. a. an actual cost Of $50.
leach How To Furnish Homo.
Lessons IN furniture buying, showing
where second hand pieces may be pur-
chased to advantage. and where true
economy may DO effected. mark the be-
ginning In the course OF home-nsking.
Mr.. Neigh explained:
In Sweden whom a girl reaches
stage in school corresponding TO our
eighth grade she Is thorough
e~rripped for Tie lousewoTk she will
he caIicd upon TO do. Contrast no.
tr.;1inc With that OF an LAme,i"s-.
schoolgirl. -