Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-03-21
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.IiiI''' STUDY IN ARTIC RIG
PuSils Of This Strange Institution
Have Finer Circulation Than
= $3.50 81 II Many Newspapers.
~ II u M MADGE ARTHUR

NEW YORK, March e0.-There is
Erfvatn school IN. this city. patronized
4 by cHtdfen or tho rich. from which
! SinfSaea iitle lamb would have fed with
cod 1ect, and a frost-hitten nose. But
sa@ss atsena a1d seem 'e to enjoy s'lt it.
Straptsst of all. these little human
! lambs bone each mornigg from home-
a wneT s seg steam fsn tas
make EN-. They come for tho most
hIrss8oS 5other attendants whose duty
apsr ST the fhree- Story iSrown-ston
sne, Afternoon.
Meantihe theel lamb is met by ono OF
the e6yeral shepherdesses who inhabit
The house and permits its feet to be
enveioped in the fur-lined boots, and
upon Its head to be- drawn a warm
ge esns -, or soSd' Such OF the outer
r ready !. g The liiue desk in the par
SfzleaEhinE entities it. In these class
fonnd@syldcnce that tho school jan:tor
Hear selativs. Every window is wide
open. and on some days there is proof
that the janitor has overlooked icicles,
look .Sobwebs on the window sashes.
e. The iAehephe rdesses are. of course. as
Well hpddled up against the cold as
dtsdains to wear hats and are the most
EosX-cheeked, bright eyed. healthiest
s1hool teachers 1t was my fortune to
On the morning or my visi. to this
tash!ona Bile "open-Air School" one cold
day last month, the front room on the
rasloy.Npor. Of the airy establishment
Sas osounifd by group OF cloaked
and. hooded youngsters before whom a
SounSs woman was waving an Ameri.
y hA G mn tr,,a it,.
eern!ut It's significance, in the Ian
sS,naEssof France II any more attrac-
s6Le!GN language to American chill
drent can be devised. j do not know
Ascending to tl,e second and third
@here2shildren OF ages from four to
e theas years. from Kindergarten mess
oEraphtes and arith,netics and the
eyer ITS task, no little hand was either
sleved. or mittened. and no little face
SttTaJeG the slightest trace OF suf-
that few, ,newsrap in the land can
Snas;s "a. finer circulation" than the
TIC mock most charming woman--I
next assembled an iron Winding stair
case to what seems TO me an altogether
admirable school playground. These
old New York brown stone mansions
all.yhaye fiat roofs. Around the edges
oigihsse roofs had been built high
iicketssfeace. Real old ia shioned rope
s&inEs, were suspended from u heavy
AWoodsn cross piece. and ut ono end or
thc-spacious roof was a snow fort. I'm
fought here unreprovcd by children
whose lot in life has been cast amid
fhefdignittes OF solemn buffers and do
mestis. ocremonials.
ButLthe school roof is by no means
the only or indeed tho chief medium by
svhtch.atfese 1ittlc children OF wealthy
that that oilsnfait pay thai, is the natural
ssSnsoo'l.,sSs;fip is Emo erg;l.te portion,
~ eart ais5 nnsa rs iS s5s Sown
AeRt-sot the house III O'Clock and
,s1,sal a brief period Of rest.
EsF Kids who have had the good for
tlne to be born outside of the confines
OF g. metropolis.
the.s games remember as n child TO
slaYt.soaJoScd IN my country home"
:satd Che chief shephcrdcss to me, land.
hs,agl errectly We'll my. how they do
snRut how about tho potter accom-
piiShmerts.'' ] asked.
- oh, of,courSc they have dancinE les
sons and riding lessons on certain days
wen, this has been s,neo an unusually
se%eTTswintes. said !. You can hardly
araI,suninterrnpte
We have not missed a single day"
sita answered, and most of the time
snaNesn mad 100 per cent attendance
ge2Fheroi has not been ono case OF In
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