The Colville examiner. [volume] (Colville, Wash.) 1907-1948, 1916-06-10


surroundings are attractive, alter
nate prairie and woodland. No more
beautiful and secluded spot could
have been found.
The lands owned by this institu-
tion consist of 200 acres. OF this
amount, about 14O or $50 acres are
good river bottom soil, and the rest
is on gravel bench. The cost of
the entire tract was $14, 900.
A visit to the farm is a revelation
to anyone not accustomed to seeing
young women doing mems work.
Everywhere evidence of work we'll
done can be seen. No weeds are al
lowed to raise a leaf above the
ground. Girls in blouses and bloom
ers, blue or brown, according to the
squad, equipped with hoes, shovels,
rakes, mattocks, wheel-barrows and
engaged in keeping farm and grounds
in clean, attractive condition.
Health is also a resultant. Financial
results of the farm work at this ms
titution will be of interest for COM
parative purposes after a full period
of two years activities. l believe
the male institutions will be required
to hustle or take a back seat.
AS soon as the new administration
building is completed, the plan at the
school will be to place every incom-
ing girl in the administration build
ing and directly under the scrutiny of
the superintendent until she has de-
termined which cottage will be the
best for the girl to live in. This may
be determined in a few days and in
other cases it may take several weeks
to be best able to Judge. On entering
the cottage assigned her, the girl will
be given thirtyfive credits, which she
may add to or take from each month.
1t will be possible to earn but sixteen
credits each month, and any who
earn this many in month will be
given an extra two. A girl may lose
any number, for where they earn
say five for work perfectly done
each day, they may lose five every
time it is not perfectly done. AS
they understand, the credits do not
pay them for right doing-that
brings it's own reward-the credits
simply show appreciation.
One girl who found herself in debt
for fifty credits had to earn all of her
eighteen for three months before she
had four ahead. Others have earned
every credit and never lost one since
the system was started last Septem-
Der. Each girl must have $50 credits
to her credit before she is entitled to
enter the administration building as
an "honor girl" and only "honor
girls" will be eligible for parole.
Every year, just before Christmas,
the Gamma Phi Beta Sorority girls
of the University of Washington sell
any work the girls may have done
during their leisure time. The girls
do quantities of fancy work. and
many of them embroider, tat and
crochet most beautifully. The mon
ey derived from this is placed to the
girls account to start her bank ac-
count
When a girl is paroled her en-
ployer is charged on the books of the
school with the amount decided
upon as pay for her services. She is
provided with a printed form, which
she fills out and returns each month.
This shows the itemized list Of ex-
penditures, together with small
amount of spending money. This
the girl, and any balance Is sent
back to the school to be added to the
bank account already started. This
bank account Is not to be drawn
upon, nor will 1t revert back to the
girl until her twenty-first birthday,
at which time she Is automatically
discharged from the school.
The State School for Girls Is in
charge of Miss Mary Campbell as su-
perintendent Miss Elizabeth Low
ing is assistant superintendent and
also acts as accountant for the insti-
tuition. Harriet E. Wright Is the ag-
riculturist and Is in charge of the
farm work. Miss Hulda Hainke Is in
charge of the power and lighting
plant. The girls assist in caring for
and running the engine and dynamo.
Miss Hainke came February 1st and
in three weeks time she had the
girls starting and running the en-
CINE alone and in their leisure time
doing all soldering and repair work.
Marion Bunter and Mrs. f. Playman
are the two matrons. The assistant
matrons are Mary Virtue and Mabel
Clarke. The housekeepers are Mrs.
Bomon and Mrs. Gum. The domes-
tic science teacher is Grace Johnson;
grade teacher, Grace Tarr, and train
ed nurse, Miriam Campbell. Anoth-
er matron and housekeeper will be
added when the new building Is COM
pleted, and in the fall another grade