The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-08-20
BOYS HOME TO
BE SOCIAL SCENE
Cakes VIII BE Auctioned
off on the Lawn Fri
day Evening

The house was cool and quiet In
the durhcuod rooms whore tho Rloro
~ the morning auushiue was shut
out ly drawn blinds boys sat In arm
chairs absorbed In the books they
were reading. IN ono 90 the living
rooms with iis book lined walls, It's
BImplc furniture and dark rugs, "A
woman eat wording at n wide desk.
Upstairs . white haired woman was
strengthening up. folding clothes.
hanging them up, after the way of
Ertudmuthers.
This is Tulsa's Boys home. Tulsa's
interest In lts motherless boys IN
focused I'm and has expression
through the care and devotion that
Mother Mason, matron OF the
home, gives them. AS she sat there
the other morning. occasionally n
ypungster would, come into the room.
brown, barc-fnOtcd. khaki-clad more
often than not, pulling off his cap
az he came into the house. Il was
Mother, may u" and Mother, see
hcre!" ana Mother" this and
Mother" that. For each of them
Mrs. Mason had n word. and a smile
that testified to the E]cnuineuess OF
the son that invariably ended her
sentences. 10 smacked not at all OF
the institution. IL was a big home,
truly, with some half a hundred boys
who, mothcrad by Tulsa through the
person OF Mrs, Mason. are no longer
altogether mothcrless.
The big house ut the corner OF
Eighth n Detroit Is the home.
You can't miss IL. It's wide porches
ana bare spaces In the lawn worn
by scores of bare feet. It's annex with
the double-dcckcr beds cleaning
white through the windows, the
eager-eyod boys who swarm about
the yard stamp II Enthusiastically the
nome of masculine youth, For five
years the home has been maintained
by Tulsa business men and by Tulsa
women whose love for boys extends
beyond the environs OF their own
homes and families. The so boys
who are at present In the home COM
prise Tulsn's family. Just now
Tulsa's family Is in urgent need OF
two thlngs-moucy to pay for the
rugs that wore bought to cover the
bare floors and make tho rooms
more homoliko and equipment for
tho little hospital ward In which Mrs.
Mason takes care OF tho sick boys.
The Rotary AIMS, hearing OF this
need. planned an old-fashioned ice
cream and cake social for Friday
night, August 25, n social in which
all Tulsa that Is Interested in the
boys Is asked to have n part. The
Womenfoik will bake cakes for the
social ana later IN the evening these
CAKES VIII be a%uctioned Off. Any
women who want 20 bake cakes for
the social, TO be held on the lawn OF
the homo, Will be asked 20 telephone
their intention TO Mrs. Edward SOph,
at 204 East Eighteenth.
Boys from 10 to l6 years old ARE
taken into the home, after their APP
%plication has been approved by the
admlttance committee, made up of
g. w Blakely Of the Y. NJ. G. A., w.
f. Stahl ana Howard Meyer. AS
many OF the boys who can. work ana
as long as they stay in the homo 90
per cent OF their wage goes for board
and room. As loon IA they are IL
nunCiRily able. to be on their own
feet they leave. Little boys who do
odd Jobs, earning them "a nickel here,
q dime there, are permitted to keen
their own earnings for spending
money. Tho other morning one
dark eyed, brOwn-skinned youngster
came In, proffering a nickel with a
proud here. mother!" Mrs. Mason
smiled as she commended him for
earning II. ana folding his fingers
about the coin told him to keep Il for
his own,
The boy so to school, and to the
church of their choice. They
enjoy tho movies when they can AZ
tord them; they read and play and
lead much the same sort Of life
that any other boy does. Many OF
them are members of Boy Scout
troop 81, led by Walter Ditzler. They
nave the privileges OF the Y. NJ. c.
A.. ana the secretaries there cooper
dto with the management Of the
home. They have their red-letter
days, such as the line party at the
movie that Ralph, Talbot gave thom
not long ago, followed by the auto
mobile ride over the city. and the
ahrincrs' picnic at Sand Springs
whore they were guests, and other
good times OF a similar nature. And
nov they arc looking forward with
keen anticipation to Friday night.
ana cake and ice cream and folks.
Mrs. Minnie Mason's mother lives
in tho home and is "grandmother"
10 all the boys. She menda their
stockings and their clothes. Mrs.
Mason works, I'm the management OF
the home, with the board of direct.
'orS made mp of j., A, Hun president.
w. +. Stahl vice president, &. r..
HuehneT secretary, T.. +. Harweu
treasurer ana II. G.. Barnard. n.
G.. ryrell, a. j. Farmer, DR.. $. Muir
ray, who is also house physician,
Joe Mitchell, G. S. Avery. ora Upp,
Howard Meyer, G.. W. Blakely, Mrs.
w. O. Dickinson and Mrs. c. f.
Farrcn.