The Morning Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Okla.) 1919-1927, 1922-05-02
Hominess Is the Spirit
That Pervades at
Frances Willard
J FOUNDED FIVE YEARS
During That Time 1913 Girls
Have Been Cared For
and rs Have Married

the steps OF the porch, three girls.
sweaters over their neat gingham
dresses, called, Hello. motherl" 10
her. From the front room floated
the sound OF laboriously played
violin: one OF the girls was taking
a music lesson. Between the din
ing room and kitchen several of the
girls were carrying smoking hot
dishes, placing chairs, pouring wa
ter. IL was lunch time at the Fran
ces Willard home.
There is nothing OF the "institu-
tlon" about that home. Even the
most casual visitor feels the homi-
ness, the spirit OF good will and Of
love and comfort that permeates
that workaday place. And it is
workaday. because all OF the work
OF the home is done by the girls
themselves: there Is no idleness
there. When they work, they work.
and when they play they play hard.
From tho pleasantly cozy little liv-
ing room. with its gray wicker fur
niture, its bright fire in the CRATE
and its piano 10 the big white dor
mitories upstairs, everything is
clean and comfy" There are white
curtains and bright hangings in the
dormitories; rows and rows OF spot
less white beds. gray locker closets
girls have made themselves on the
dressers. There are the little per-
sonal touches. the presence OF
treasured glrlish belongings, that
take away the "institutionar look,
and make the place appear what it
really is---a home.
just Like Home.
outside there IL a pergola. with
wild flowers and vines that the girls
..t. 4
about II. There is vegetable gar
den, and the lawn is trim. with its
neatly cut grass and flower beds.
The pergola needs swings and seats,
and the girls long for tennis court.
Those in charge of the home are
hoping that someone may be suffi-
Cently interested in the girls recre-
alton TO help in the grading and lay
ing out of a court this spring. And
they need a cow, too-they have
one, but one is not enough to supply
the needs OF the home.
For that matter. the home is de-
pendent upon Tulsa people for its
very existence. There are mothers
whose mother-love reaches out from
their own homes wherein their
young daughters are sheltered and
protected. to these young girls who
are just as eager for living as their
more fortunate sisters. There are
fathers, and sometimes erandmoth-
ers and grandfathers, and people
with no children at all who are in
teresting themselves in these girls.
Not so very long ago one of the we'll
known teachers OF music in the town
offered to teach some of the girls
who showed talent for music.
A prominent Red Cross worker
gives them a home nursing course.
The home takes care of the girls
who otherwise might be thrown
upon the city or the county, and 1t
taxes care of them in a way that no
other institution could do in that it
gives them a place TO strike their
roots" so to speak. Even after they
leave. Frances willard is home to
the girls who have lived there, and
they return to 1t for its festivities. its
special days, and very often for
help.
Financed by Tulsans.
Tulsa people finance the home.
They do this through two mediums,
the annual tag day and subscrip-
tions. The annual tag day will be
held this year Saturday, May 6, and
Mrs. Wilson outlined the other day
in very brief way the uses to which
the money will be put. Approx
mately $500 monthly is required for
the homes operating expenses. This
includes salary and all expenses.
Ihere are several reasons why this
can be done--one is that the girls
90 all their own work, make their
own ciothes-another is that buying
is carefully done at wholesale, the
best things, but bought with care
ana any eye for food values. Aside
from the outdoor needs of the
nome, It needs chairs, rugs, and
such things for the inside.
But the greatest need this COM
ing year is separate home for the
unfortunate girls. The girls who are
N the home are those who have
peen found 'in time" They are be-
ing reared in such a way that they
are learning and making the art OF
u0Ihs feminine things in a femi-
nine way, of being wholesome and
lovable women. The so-called "un-
tortunate' girl the board of direc-
t9rs are reluctant TO have asso.
y'ated with the young girls in the
"oihe; while she must learn those
same things by virtue of her expert.
ence she must learn them in a differ
eht way and the board Is planning
gust as soon as II has sufficient
unos to build a separate home on
tne same grounds for them. They
'NN SoipVU AtlI over from lhSt
Sear Tor this purpose. and they want
20 be able to add to it from this
years tag day sales.
~, Founded Five Years Ago.
me nome has been in existence
Ivy years, During that time 33s
sIIs nave found homes there. OF
nus number 72 have married and
nave homes of their own. Others
ave thss round positions. AS soon a:
tney are self-supporting, they arc
seaoy 10 go out from the home
some OF the girls earn money b,
SMOrking In homes about the city. OF
niowntown, part time and are are
TrIready r partially self-supporting
mere are 25 girls in the home now
ana 20 Of them are dependent, |
,h"e'IaIiy ,ha y self-supporting. Six OF
me girls are taxing voca tional train.
ns now, and fitting themselves tc
OF themselves. ''"' S"''
ar 80 children under IL years of age
aIt taken in thu hnn,a