The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-02-12

dIlOuht tndt hne uOes, eliminating
salaries. There Is no other SUPER
visor in the home except Miss Effle
Shell, who Is employed by the school
board OF the city and who Is the
girls teacher. There is school every
afternoon from l:30 to o'clock.
! The schoolroom is just off the hall.
and every girl In the home Ia re-
| CURED to attend every day. There
Is but one girl In the home whose
, mental equipment makes Il seem
| ingly impossible for her to learn, but
she always attends and pegs away
at her letters along with the rest,
Those children who are perfectly
normal in every way go to the city
schools. There are eight children
now who are attending at Longfel-
low and two girls in high school.
Among the 25 girls in the home
there are some who are exception
ally bright and ambitious. The
members of the board and Mrs. will
son take n keen interest in these
girls and will do everything in their
power 10 equip them for the pro-
fession that they would like to make
theirs.
Cost Only 500 n Month.
During the year the home has had
an average of from 20 to 2S girls a
day. Tho house has been run on ap-
proXimately $500 month. Mrs.
Wilson buys nothing but the most
wholesome and the best food from
the best places: she plans her buy
ing carefully. making purchases In
big lots and teaches the girls to use
the food in simple but attractive and
varying ways. Run on this economic
basis. the home has about $4,000 in
o At
year. With this money 1t Is the plaA
TO build two cottages on the prop
erty belonging TO the home, adjacent
TO the main building. One OF thsse
IL to house those girls who are just
beginning to be self supporting. who,
while they are earning money have
not yet come to the point where they
make enough to enable them 70
leave the home and go out abso-
lutely on their own. They would
under the tentative plan, finance
themselves and be under the super
vision OF the home. The other cot
tage would be for the young girls
who have been taken from the Jails.
This Is a problem that lies heavy
on Mrs. Wilson's heart. II was
agreed that 1t is not a good thing
for these girls to be placed in the
home and closely associated with the
girls already there. But what TO do
with them? There IL no place for
them to go; the state reformatory
cant take care OF them, and even
II It could there are many OF the
girls who are there for a first Of
fense, sometimes the victim of cir
cumstances, more sinned against
than SHINING and to be put into an
institution like that would be to start
the endless cycle-the street, the
! Jail again, over and over. So when
tho funds available will permit, the
erection OF a cottage that would be
In a sense isolated from the main
building and yet would be under GEN.
tral supervision will care for these
girls OF Tulsa.
As tn the girls who are there now
who are they. where did they
como from? Each one of them has
, A history of her own that Is nearly
always shadow. More often than
not they have been mistreated by
some step" relative.
; Someone asked me one day
, said Mrs Wilson ''if these girls
J didn't have parents? told them'
, bless you, yes! Most OF them have
three or fourl Divorces. separation
= desertlon-they all figure in the
]
= And YOU would find 1t hard to be-
I lieve the cruelty that some OF them
! have suffered"
Founded Five Years Ago.
After they leave the home, what
/ Some of the girls are happily mar
: rIed. some OF them earn their own
living. Some Of them are learning
TO do that now, by working mornings
a in Tulsa homes. helping with the
housework and looking after chill
B, dren. The places are found for them
y Nv Mrs, Wilson. County Humane
y Agent Welch and the city ponce
work with the Frances Willard and
y it's heads. NJ. ...
y The home was founded five years
4 ago. II is supported by popular SUD
;, scription. II is supervised by Ns
q board OF directors and Mrs. wilson
:. who came from California aDou'
= three years ago, Ia its head. Ex'
y nerienced as she is in this kind OF
!. work, Mrs. Wilson said the other daS
~ that she had never worked VIII
= women who were as earnest, as Ell,
fIcient and as broad OF vision ano
, high of purpose as the members OF
" the board of Frances willard are
II Discussing her work further Mrs
" Wilson said: ~
"While we want 20 give thes'
u girls a taste OF real home life wnil'
- they are here, our primary purpos'
is 10 equip them, just so far as W.
can, for living, Most or the glI"
" who come here have not the mora
k and mental background I'm theii
r families. nor the training that mos
Is girls their age have. They are
e, Handicapped by this fact. In every
Is thing that we do here. we try y
ID make the girls self sutiicieht, y
toach them the fundamental prin
Is ciples OF honesty and right living L
n. give them ideals to live up to an'
~ nj the same time to give them
" practical working knowledge
es everyday things - housework AM
A sewing and home making
y Bucking A. E. F. Goat
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