South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1922-03-20

has been free and untrammeled
experiment.. IN the first place.
Mooscheart Is "a home Mothers are
there. SO that they need not be sep
aratcd from their children Babies
have been born there. 20 expectant
mothers left without aid by less for
tunate members OF our order This
home az MoOseheart IS a comfort
able little town Of homes. cottages.
Offices. school buildings. work shops.
hospital. an auditorium and every
thing that belongs 90 "A home com
munity. The tract consists Of more
than 900 acres and the farm that
supplies 70 with milk and other foods
is at the same time a model school
OF agriculture. In the midst OF the
place is a lake hDr water sports and
the wholesome exercise they pro
mote And I'VE have not forgotten a
football field "a baseball diamond.
and "a playing space for all. We
haye an orchestra. and n band OF
more than 100 pieces. The students
who form these bodies do not simply
scrape and loot and make noise;
they are under the training Of a
skilled and inspired instructor. and
they play the best OF music and play
10 well. Some Of the houses and
buildings We're designed by Moose
heart students, from materials
shaped I'm the schools and shops.
While the students were about IL,
they fashioned ornaments for these
buildings, as well as blocks and
lath.
school Is Gaining
Even now barely we'll begun.
Mooseheart has grown in the eight
years Of its life so that 1.O34 chill
dren, from babyhood 10 young man
and wOmanhood. enjoy its advant-
ages. II is distinctly on the make.
We are now building a village for
babies under school age They re-
ceive. in babyhood, care that Is
scientific and practical but yet sym
pathetic and homelike. At every
stage all institutionalism IS cerefuIly
avoided. No uniform has been
adopted The children wear individ-
ual clothing, and when they arrive
at suitable age they select their own.
AT still later age, they make their
own. At all times they rOmp to-
gether as huge happily family. as
much as possible out of doors in the
country air and subject 10 the infIu-
euces of the natural loveliness about
them At Mooseheart the rod is
spared. We find it an effective pun
ishment to deprive the misbehaying
of the privilege of going swimming,
or seeing baseball and football
games. or the movies. For we regu-
larly exhibit motion pictures in the
auditorium, and we are favored with
the latest and best.
Trades Are Taught.
Where we do go far beyond the
public school is in the vocational
training that we make compulsory.
The utmost skill is applied in fitting
each child to the trade for which ma
ture and his own tastes have adapt
ed him. The boys learn carpentry,
farming. moulding, machine-work,
metal-wOrk, and work in concrete,
and the like. The girls are taught
homework, stenOgraphy, secretarial
work, and kindred pursuits. They
know dressmaking and domestic
science. Whether as wives, as wage
earners, or as destined for a career.
girls who leave MOoseheart are
equipped for mastering life. for un-
Outstanding life, and enjoying it. So
are the boys.
But the point of this, the everiast-
Ing point OF it, is that while these
young people leave Mooseheart to
take up life, and while they are
trained TO make the most of life and
it's fine things. TO the playing Of
music and the painting OF pictures
where they can, they all leave with
some useful trade. Whatever hap
pens 10 them in after life, they Will
be found on the rock of self-support
and seIf-preservation. Their self
respect is as secure as theiF liveli-
hood