The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-11-04

nounced one girl when she came back to the
school after visit at her home, mother
hasn't any system to her work and she has
too much junk around" Unconsciously this
girl had imbibed the idea of simple dignity i'm
home furnishings, the bad taste of walls
crowded with meaningless pictures and win
doWs disfgured with hideous curtains. Also
she had learned that scrim and crash, pur-
chased at a cost of cents yard, makes de-
lightful window hangings with little clever
needlework. The corner TO the dining room in
one cottage shown in the accompanying pic
ture, tells where the lesson was learned.
The school work includes sewing in many
forms; the girls make all their own clothes
and the table and bed linen, window curtains
and hangings used in the cottages, besides
taking orders for fancy work. Their sale of
fancy needlework last Christmas was a rev.
elation to those who attended and saw the
work of the girls that in many cases had not
known how to darn their own stockings
when they entered the school.
The home-planning class is unique fea-
ture of the school work. Books are made I'M
uSI luSIIuCClOIl, given drawings anu plans Oh
modest little homes, their cost, the cost of
interior finishings and furnishings with care
fully worked out color plans and tables of
expenses. The girl who has been through
class work of that sort is equipped with &C
tual knowledge when the time comes that
sees her own home being built and furnished
The Holidays are Great Days
Indeed.
That work we'll done for a clear purpose
may be enjoyable is the great idea which
Mrs. Morse and her assistants try to instilI
into the minds of their pupils. Unless they
can learn this, little of permanent good will
result The life to which they are being di-
rected must be made attractive, it must be
spiced with pleasure Thus it is that the
great days, Fourth of July, Christmas,
Thanksgiving, are very great days, indeed,
at the Home School, Each cottage makes it's
plans quite Independent of the rest. Last
Fourth of July group of girls at one cottage
picnicked at the lake; another group had a
dance, some of the girls taking tile part of
young men and calling for the young women
they were to escort to the dance; another
group had tabelaux and charades and still
another cottage had games on the porch and
a refreshment tent where ice cream and LEM
onade were dispensed. :.1'
During tn winter months plays are given
in the chapel, and one production last season
was taken down town for presentati ton to the
townsfolk At the close of the school work
last month a pageant was given on the
grounds before the administration building,
where the queen of the pageant was chosen
from among the inmates by popular vote of
the girls, and dances from the Greek to mod
ern social dancing, were exemplifed
At chapel exercises there is d trained
choir, composed of girls who have no demer-
it's against their records. There is an excel
lent music teacher at the school, and any girl
may take piano or vocal lessons, paying for
them from the money she earns at her work.
Realize Responsibility of
Community Life.
The result of all these interests-work,
school, amusements religious instructon-is
a community life of interest and vitality, of
which each girl comes sooner or later to feel
she is part. She comes to appreciate her
relationship to the whole, to realize that it's
happiness and effectiveness and freedom are
influenced by her individual actions. 1t
brings her to point where. in the main, she
does not differ from, any other girl of her
own age To see them on a summer evening,
a group returning, perhaps, from a picnic
supper by the lake, another group playing
ball-practically every cottage has its base
ball team, and rivalryis keen-girls strolling
about arm in arm, or dancing to the music OF