The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1922-10-05
Here's Perfectly Good Chance For the
Little Tots at Free kindergarten School
Miss Sparrow Will Be Delight
ed 10 Have Any Little Folk
Who Iish to Enjoy the Many
Adg 1tageS of the School to
EnteF Right Away
By DOLLY DALRYMPLE
Listen, little boys and girls!

Listen, little boys and girls!
Here's a perfectly good invitation
for you from the very sweetest,
prettiest, most adorably loved young
lady you ever put your eyes on.
It's IBID" as the "sub-debs" say,
to come to the Church of the Advent
free kindergarten and just have the
best-est sort of time, scampering
about, singing songs and making
'pretties" and learning just a little
tiny bit of reading and writing and
'rithmetic, and OH ever so many
other nice things; manners" and all
that and a bit of Sunday-then some
more; school work, and other real
things.
It's quite up to you, "Mr. Riddle, >
to take advantage of the splendid
opportunity that comes a-knocking
at your door, for like the Biblical of
fer of the deep and abiding love of
our blessed Saviour, it is without
money and without price," and "lol
every one that thirsteths-here Is
knowledge offered, freely and gladly
Ia cup of cold water" held out to
parching lips that crave refresh
mentl
When pretty little Miss Sparrow
was talking to me the other day Just
after the opening last Monday OF the
Church of the Advent free kender-
garten round at the parish house,
Just thought to myself:
isn't Birmingham the incest. most
splendid, big hearted, generous old
place in the world and is there any
thing that Miss Birmingham wouldn't
give a fellow from her very socks. no;
of course I mean elk stockings-to
the bonnet that she wears on her
pretty headf
And what a wonderful thing for the
Church of the Advent free kindergar-
ten to get girl like Miss Sparrow
to take charge of the school and dis
pense all this hospitality!
Wait till tell you who Miss Spar
row Isl she Is the sister of beautiful
Mrs. Ralph Barrow. You know Mr..
Barrow who just loves and adores
the Alabama Children's Aid society,
and who has done such wonders with
this institution: well, Mrs. Barrow
has been back of him In all of his
wonderful work-and now her little
sister, pretty as q pink. and Just
chuck full of talent and everything.
has come to little old Birmingham
from way up in big old Boston town
fer "keeps-; because three times she
has ''came and went as the kid
dies" say-each time feeling and
hearing the insistent call of the south
loud ana sentorian-and this time
she's just decided to stay, because
there is a great work to do and she
knows how to de- 1t.
Miss Sparrow Talks.
MY innate love of children sup
pose is the reason why have taken
up kindergarten work and loved 1t
so dearly. 1 took course in kinder
garten at Cambridge. and conducted
home town, and one year conducted
another school.
Kindergarten work Is SO fascinat-
ing and beautiful, for it is really pri-
mary work, laying the foundation
stone, as 1t were, fer all that Is to
come into the life of the child here
tier, and it 10 great response
} lity.
My purpose at the Church of the
advent free kindergarten, following
the splendid example set by Miss Ella
Charles, and later by Mrs. Richard r.
Stotlar, is fundamentally to get In
touch with the home life of the
child; propose to visit in the homes
of the little pupils and to take some-
tnlnB OF inc atmosphere OF our Kin
dergarten into the homes of these
little folks. In this way I can help
the children as well as the parents.
Cooperating with Organized Charity
I'VE will cooperate In every way
we can with organized charity and
with friends like the good people who
make UP the membership of the
Church of the Advent and the high
and worthy aims of tho beloved rec
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that there IL really q great field for
free kindergarten work here.
'Dr. Barnwell has always been in
terested in tho free kindergarten and