The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1915-07-22

group had a tableaux and charades,
and still another cottage had games
on the porch and refreshment tent
where ice cream and lemonade were
dispensed.
During the winter months plays
are given in the chapel, and one pro-
duction last season was taken down.
town for presentation to the towns
folk. At the close of the school
work last month a pageant was given
on the grounds before the admins
tration 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
modern social dancing, were exem-
plifed.
At chapel exercices there is train
ed choir, composed of girls who have
no dement's against their records.
There is an excellent music teacher at
the school, and any girl may take
piano or vocal lssons, 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
Instructions 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 its happiness and effec-
tiveness 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, group returning,
perhaps, from picnic supper by the
lake, another group playing ball
practically every cottage has its base
ball team, and rivalry is keen-girls
strolling about arm in arm, or dane
ing to the music of a victrola, the
impression is somewhat similar to
that gathered at the average girls
college, unless it be that he atmos-
phere is more homelike. 1t is all
natural and girl-like and deepens the
conviction that such surroundings
and such training from the start
would have kept those girls from the
mistakes and misfortunes which are
the reason for the schools existence.
1t was four years ago last month
to be exact, four years on June Fl,
that the school was moved from Red
Wing to its present location. Mrs.
Morse had personally supervised the
first beginnings, "whittling a place in
the brush" for the first cottage,
bringing the girls in special coach
from Red Wing, fighting misunder-
standings, the difficulties of getting
assistants who would or could catch
the spirit of the work, the thousand
and one things which hamper and re-
tard the person with a vision.
Today there are spacious grounds,
no completed, it is true, but in fair
way of completion; eight handsome
cottages, the latest being pure colo
NAL in style, the administration
building, hospital and chapel. One of
the recently built cottages bears the
name of the Irene Petit home or
cottage, honoring the daughter of
the Minneapolis millionaire, whose
generosity has provided more than
$1,000 worth of fine pictures for the
cottages.
More than Eighty per cent
Make Good.
And for the result of it all, the
work, and planning, and carefully-di-
rected teaching.
"A trifle more than 80 per cent Of
the girls make good" said Mrs Morse,
go at work with a will and take
pride at being able to support them