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


shall be binding on all parties. In
case any girl so apprenticed shall
prove untrustworthy or unsatisfac-
tory, the superintendent may permit
her to be returned to the school, and
the indenture may thereupon be can
celled.
The commission appointed to Sc
lect the site for the State School for
Girls selected property situated
about half a mile from Grand
Mound, in Thurston county. About
forty acres of the land was level
prairie, suitable for a building site,
and for early gardening, and the bal
ance lies about twenty-five feet lower
and is composed of rich bottom land.
The Chehalis river runs along the
west side of the property for about
sixteen hundred feet. A beautiful
little lake, fed by springs, covering
about three acres of land is located
on the property near the buildings.
The Board of Control Immediately
proceeded with the erection of two
modern cottages to take care of the
girls. The buildings constructed
were modern in every respect. The
foundations are of concrete, and a
visit to this part of the building is
pleasure. A we'll equipped domestic
science department is not only a
training of a practical nature, but
the resultant is need of the house
hold and constitutes part of the do
nestle economy.
In the laundry, water motors oper-
ate the washing machines, this de-
partment again being operated as a
school along the lines that washing
is done in the majority of house.
holds. Girls with axes are busy
splitting and piling wood, and it is
piled wood, not a pile of wood.
Tools of all kinds have place in
these Easements, and the tools are in
their places, clean and ready for
the construction of these buildings
certainly ought to make toward re-
formation.
The first noticeable thing upon
entering the office is a rack filled
with government bulletins dealing
with farm work. These are being
studied and the experience contained
therein put to use.
The fundamental provision, archi
tecturally, is privacy. Every girl has
her own room, or will have, that be-
ing the intention of the legislature
when it established the school. At
the present time there are two girls
in most of the rooms, and three in
some. The rooms, while small, are
light, we'll ventilated and more in
viting than the great majority of ho-
tel rooms. Each room is, in fact, a
yeritable little home: pictures of the
loved ones at home, and fancy work
adorn the walls and dressers. If re-
formation is not possible here, it can
not be effected.
The great idea around which this
institution is building is love for one
another, love and respect for the SUI
perintendent and her officers, love
of nature and a growing conviction
that they are all equals, not only of
one another, but also of the great
army of humanity outside of the
walls. If anyone doubts the fact that
this effect is being wrought, spend an
evening in this big family. The one
great factor that makes for good cit
izenship is their home life, work
land hard work. out Of doors, in
dustry at all times, as shown by ev-
cry girl knitting, sewing, etc, and
play devised and managed along
moral and healthy lines are the daily
routine.
In the evenings the girls gather in
the large living rooms, where they
work on their own fancy work, some
one reads aloud for an hour, the rest
Of the evening is spent listening to
music on the Victrolas, playing the
piano, singing or playing games In
one cottage alone 32 books were
read aloud in the evenings during
the past year Such books as: "Da-
vid Copperfield," and others of Dick
ems; "Laddie and Freckles," "Girl
of the Limberlost," Michael OHal-
loran," polly Anna" "The Wonder
full Adventures of Nils" Paul An
tony, Christian" "The Rebecca Stor-
ies," "The Dawn of Tomorrow"
Kipling's Gust So" stories, "The
Leaven of Love-" Polly of the Hos
pital Staff" Mary Carey" Bob,
Son of Battle" "The Boss of Little
Already" etc.
The beautiful piano was a gift
from the Mothers Congress and Par
ent-Teachers' association of Seattle.
Two Victrolas, one for each cottage,
were presented to the girls by Mr..
and Mrs. e. C. Blanchard, of the Nor
thern Pacific. A Ukelele was the gift