Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1917-07-27
YOUNGER GIRLS
LEARN COOKING
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tie girls denied the instruction dur
ing the remainder of the year may
receive it through the generosity of
the Department of Parks and Play
grounds. Just a stones throw from
the mansion in Reservoir Park is the
open-air cooking school, rooted over
and carefully screened. Miss Anne
Bender. herself a former pupil of
Miss Hamilton, of Central High,
counts one hundred fifty-four chill
dren among her pupils. They are di-
vided into classes and instruction
already known. I found little girls
of ten absorbed in the mysteries of
boiled cornstarch and white sauce.
while their older sisters have gradu-
ated to hot biscuit and fancy pud-
dings. The great final test promised
for the end of the season is ice cream.
And the real thing. too." laughed
Miss Bender. mo cornstarch in ours!"
Night Glasses
This practical young woman has
grown to see the real use as well as
pleasure to the girl of the city which
is afforded by this course. and she
is willing to devote her evenings to
night classes that older girls and
young women employed during the
day may have the advantage of the
instruction. The only stipulation is
that charge be made of Is cents and
rs cents per week to cover costs. All
materials used by the regular day
class are provided by the Park De-
partment.
When a day dawns dark and dreary
and with a steady downpour of rain,
the Fairgrounds are naturally de-
serted. not even the teachers ven
turing out. Threatening clouds are
no hindrance, however. nor an occa-
sional shower. while any ordinary
summer morning finds from seventy
FIVE to a hundred children of all sizes.
ages and types indulginE in the varied
form of amusement and instruction.
Raffia basketmaking has formed one
of the most important branches in
the past, but raffia is both difficult
to obtain and very costly at present
so its use has been discontinued.
Enjoy Ball Games
One close. sultry morning recently
I found a seat on a bench under a
shade tree on one of our largest play
grounds There was a delightful
breeze stirring at that exact spot and
I wondered at the choice of the older
boys and girls upon the courts in the
blazing sun, jumping at the elusive
tethertennis ball and rushing madly
about in the game of longball. But
they seemed blissfully unconscious
of the heat. Presently l Joined a
group of younger children playing
in the sandboX. This is a pastime
usually selected by wee little tots,
but 1 found some boys of nine or ten
busily digging and moulding.
II like this place the best of the
whole playground" one of them con-
fided. II stay here most all the time.
You see, we can make forts and roads
and things. Sometimes we catch
grasshoppers and put them in one of
the sand forts with a hole at the top
and they can't get out. but they jump
all arnundr'
1t was only an ordinary Monday
morning. with no crowd or excite
ment of any kind. but on the swings
and all over the length and breadth
of the playground 1 counted ninety
four boys and girls and even a few
of the boys grown tall" who were
passing by upon some business errand
and could not resist the appeal of
the exuberance and vitality of child
hood.
Organize Blue Bird Circles
A few of the Fairgrounds have or
ganized circles of the Blue Birds.
younger sisters of the Camp Fire
Girls. They have many of the ideals
and aspirations of the Boy Scouts,
seeking after the true. sincere and
kind traits of the human heart and
trying day by day to make the old
world a wee bit better place.
In the heart of the colored section
of the city there is a playground (the
schoolyard of the Calder building)
devoted exclusively to the children of
oil Ia
forms of amusement of the other
grounds as well as instruction in
sewing and folk dancing. There is a
general average of a hundred and
fifty attendants and they are under
the supervision of a capable young
colored instructor. Miss Georgianna
Potter, who takes a fond personal
interest in the little ones under her
care.
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