The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1916-08-31
HAVE HAD PLEASANT SUMMER
Over $50 Children From st. Mary S
Home in Chicago Have Been Guests
of Sisters at Kenosha
All Summer.

The 100 children from the ST. Mary Is
Home for Children who have spent the
summer in the sisters delightful re-
treat on the Kenosha south shore of the
lake, are now preparing to go back to
their school studies and the city home
at 1922 Jackson Boulevard, Chicago,
early in September. The Sisters Of st.
Mary conduct both the Chicago and
Kenosha homes.
"We we had a lovely time,'' one Of
the rosiest checked, roundest faced of
the happy, rolicking, healthy looking
children said to a visitor at the home
yesterday. And the visitor remembered
the same group of children when they
arrived here in June as rather pale,
quiet company who seemed much sub
dued. Now every one of them looks
strong, happy and full of the joy of
living.
The home is an attractive collection
of moss green frame buildings perched
on the low hill which runs along the
lake front, and at the southern end of
the line is situated the simple frame
chapel, painted in the same moss green
shade as the other buildings and en-
powered in foliage.
One afternoon spent among the chill
dren would do away with any idea that
they are in danger of being institution
allied Chat bugbear among social work
ers) by their residence in the home.
There is no uniformity OF costumes,
each child wearing what its inclination,
directed by the management, leads it
to choose. The only time there is an
approach to uniform is when they at
tend the chapel exercises when each of
the youngsters is required to wear
jaunty little Dutch cap of white muslin,
In order to conform to the ecclesiastical
law that no woman may enter the
church with an uncovered head.
Just as much freedom of action is
allowed the children as is consistent
with their safety and health. They
play about as they choose from the
time they get up until they are ready
to go to sleep at night, with only
enough time out for meals.
The lawn slopes from the buildings
down to the lake. A breakwater has
been built some thirty or forty feet
from the shore and the water interven-
ing is only from three to four and a
half feet deep so that the children can
play in it without danger. They have
a boat in which they row about inside
the breakwater and friends of the in
stitution have built some chute-the-
chute slides so that the children can
climb ten feet or so out of the water
and then catapault down the chute into
it. This is one of the things they con-
slider great fun and the chutes are sell
dom left idle long. They all have bath
ing suits and many Of them have learn
ed to swim. Basketball, croquet and
other games occupy much of their time.
The happiest youngster of all the $50
is little Alexandria who has yellow hair
and brown eyes and was two years old
last March.
Beside being the pet of the sisters in
charge, the other children. consider it q,
privilege to be allowed to take care of
her so that the attentions showered up-
on her leave nothing to be desired from
her point of view.
She ism t much of a conversations
so far, her talking being limited to two
or three words of which ta-ta, which
translated means "thank you,'' is the
phrase she uses oftenist But although
she cannot talk she can do many other
things. Among her list of accomplish
ments is courtesying.
She bent her little knee and bobbed
her little head in quite theatrical stvle
when she was asked to courtesy to Wis
itors yesterday, and then she was car
ried off to the supper table.
At table, before the service of the
meal begins, the little ones sing grace.
prettily, all standing for the ceremony.
AN infirmary which will accommodate
twenty children stands somewhat awav
from the other buildings but so far this
year there has been little use for r.
In spite of the very great heat of the
summer which took away the pleasures
of out-of-door life to large extent in
places away from the lake, the children
found it very comfortable, PLAYING ia
the shade Of the buildings on the Iske
front.