The Birmingham age-herald., 1916-03-19

1 sible for him, and until school opens
 lie is to be presented with everything
 the little closets possess to play with, | so that he will feel at home. Soon the
 child is one of them.
 "As the neighborhood is very transient '' l said Miss Charls, this is very neces- sary, new children come In ana old ones | go away constantly"
 We have a great many visitors and l we are always glad to see them. The
 greatest delight is to be allowed to shake
 hands, and the little girls courtsey very
 prettily. One day some visitors arrived. Most all the babies had shaken hands with them when one of the older chil-
 dren came forward leading one of the l very tiny little ones and said: You for
 got Elsie I am afraid we are little | spoiled about visitors, as one little girl
 who dances very prettiiy was cancing | for me and after she had finished she l came up and whispered: The next time
 we have visitors won't you let me dance 1 for them
 | Its great fun to hear the children | correct each others mistakes in gram lrar. One day after a mistake one of the older children had made I said, i Where do you go to schcolg and that i'm | pressed theu little boy so much he has | been most careful ever since to be a | credit to his school.
 "A question for Monday morning is
 always how many have been to Sunday school? It don't make any difference where the child has gone, if he has not been he feels that he has missed some thing and wants to go next Sunday. So 1 many mothers of the little ones lead such busy lives that when Sunday morn ing comes they are too tired to get the children ready, but the child is not tired and wants to go, so the mother makes the effort
 HWey n oaftiuO hn SIIah little ladies and gentlemen too, if a little girl comes in tardy up jumps a little man to give her chair sometimes several nttie poys get up, If the lady happens to be pop uar miss. It's lots of fun for them to get a chair but awfully hard to get them to give up one they particularly like. Sometimes they stealthily exchange chairs and then there is war, the re- mark as to how 'babyish this is soon brings them to time.
 'The children are responsible for so many things to develop their self-re- lance that it is hard to realize often the little one of six years is only a baby after all. The dearest sight in the world is to see the older children ! take care of the real little ones, look ing out for them in many ways. When q baby tot walks across the floor she is always escorted by some little mother I've of course have lunch every day This, by the way, is the only charge we collect from the children. They pay five to ten cents week. Those who pay ten cents are helping defray the expenses of the ones who cannot afford to pay at all. The children bring their nickles each week. One day a little girl came to me weeping, and said between her sobs that the dear Lord has brought us baby but had forgotten the lunch nickle
 The children say grace before they are allowed to eat their lunch and again to tell on the child that couldn't wait to
 taste her cake, but Johnnie never feels
 quite so fine after he has been a tell
 tale. for it doesn't take long for the child
 to understand that neither tattle tale or a cry baby gets any sympathy. One
 day at a mothers meeting the children
 had ice cream cones, and as it is unusual to say grace at a party this was omitted We found it very hard to get some of them to taste the ice, cream because the grace was left out. Several mothers in whose homes I have visited say that since the little one has gone to kinder garten the grace is asregular ceremony at each meal
 'Now that spring is here we are look ing forward with 8 great deal of en-
 thusiasm to the planting of a flower
 garden. You will hardly believe it pos
 sble, but so many of these city chill
 dren know nothing at all about flowers
 and how they grow
 q try to visit the homes regularly and
 the parents seem very cordial and es-
 pecially to desire the visits If I am of
 any help I repeat the calls, and do what
 can in the home.
 We have a lovely school and enjoy
 having people come to see us. Any one is welcome"