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go: eR ww »" -- es / a. VERE KIO es 2 a | Thursday, September 2, 1920. s TO ' WE TO Johnston Phone 122 3 : AN ORRHANAGE Miss Ethel M. Chapman writes intesestingly in Mac- Lean's Magazine of the is under the direction of Mr. J. C/Morgan. Cree: Orphans, like the poor, are ubway us. und so long ax we have orp must have some place to take cure of ther This necessity conveys to most of us the idea of an inststution, an "orphans' home" w place than whieh it, ax it uw usually understood, ere are few sudder, But we have just found an orphanage that is not in any" sense an institution--fthut is rather a combination heme and high-class board: ing school, The Independent Order of For- esters thought of at. founded it, and are carrying it on at Oakville, Ontario The first happy errcumstance o with the orphanage is that it is in the country. ox a farm of its own, The children huve the freedom of the fields and the natural wholesome im an envirominent of growing thinges you can appreciate what this meats only if you have seen children look ing out through the bara of w city instit utien's:paved enclosure. There is also the great advantage that they have am abund ance of fresh, homegrown thingy to eat The store-room ix a place to delight the heart of « boy with a boy's natural, per il a They huve already packed wut hundred dozen eggs for the win ad they are using fresh eges from the farm right along. Lust year they can ned three thousind pounds of Fruit, also home-grown; there isn't. much of it left oreburils, fluence at fri time the first strawhorries * ripen, have an abundance of fresh fist. They cure their own bacon and they have more milk and cream than they car use from their own dairy herd. fur ne food goesythe place ix at least par: tially self suppofting. nd of course the boys do xe farm work, On Saturte: stuimer holidays they are supposed to work im the forenoons; the afternoons are to apenas they like, but a upply for work in the after: are putd for their work » ten cents an ut the hour, Th xanten plots to cultivate just as they il if they have any produce to sell the home huys it from them--they are not allowed tw peddle it through the town, because ; the townspeople have a very fine regard for the boys and the superintendent doesn't want this to be lessened or taken advan- tage of in any way. The home itself would make a most creditable college residence. It is a brown tile building, attractive in design. fireproof throughout, and planned to give. wherever vwreible, the cory, cheerful appointments "of a real home. The dormitories are lary and airy, with only five single beds in a room---very springy. whiteenamel, white: spreaded beds they arg--snd to forestall nny chance of the room looking like a ward, the walls ere made interesting with pictures and pennants. The girls' dormi- Quality--Service -~Price In: buying Meats--one of the highest-priced foods today--the careful shopper first demands Quality--then Servcie--' then Moderate , Price. This -is what you are assured of when you deal at Brennan's Meat Market M. J. Brennan 'The Quality Butcher PHONE 51. ciit¥t 'WE WISH-- 'TION TO: THE LOGI SECURE DRAW YOUR ATTEN. FACT THAT UR PAINTS > THE BARRIE EXAMINER | ) i \ preserve the children's self respect, to make them feel that they are natural, nor- mal citizens. They do not wear uniforms. Snir fetus fom the supeiaeeat ae order he has from the t is, when he buys clothes tor earn get forty different styles of wife naturally hasn't so much difficulty in_get- ting a variety of dresses for the girls. They attend the public school and the child's norisidl eqperience in eitizenship and com- munity life. They may even have a few educational advantages over the average psy, Page Seven . ty they are about sixteen years old, after they have had one or two years in Hi School; and if possible they go to this Court helps them' to find wotk and town of the Court which adopted them friends and in general keeps kindly ey over the next four or five critical years of their lives, When one boy of a ticularly clever mechanical turn of mind left. the orphanage the Court to which be wes sent gave him a complete college z course in electrical engineering. In add'tion to caring for the orphans Surpassing all others in Delicacy and Fragrance OILS, AND GLASS IS ehild in the tutoring they receive in the! in the home, the Foresters have for years evenings, and in the fine physical training beep running a system of Mother' P SOLUTE FOLLY TO HOLD OFF FOR LOWER PRICES. NOTHING ADDS TO THE VALUE OF A BUILDING LIKE FRESH PAINT. SS ron ts ater they leave the they. get in reir own gymnasium. Child- 'ren who have been in the orphanage s year lor two are fairly expert with clubs and dumb-bells. Girls as well as boys ewim like South Sea Islanders, 'They have their own baseball ground end cricket field, and in the winter their own skating-rink. Every child who is old enough to akate has hoo- key rkates and knows how to use them. Even their religious training has a char- seteritte breadth and thoroughnew--they attend the Anglican chureh in the morning and not infrequently churches of other de- nominations in the evenings, "The aim of the Executive Council." says the sup- crintendent, "is that the home shall be the children's home while they're here and afterwards, and that it shall turn them out good men and women, fitted for this world and the next."" Perhaps it is through the churches that they make some of their best friends in the town, for the orphanage children are very well liked in the community. Wo- men say they can tell an orphunage boy by hid manrerly deportment on the street jand the older ones are often invited to 'the finest homes in the neighborhood ; even orphanage they come buck 10 these homes for week-ends, One very good friend in the district makes a practice of giving special treats to the children collectively--he always gives them 4 motor trip to the Toronto Exhibition snd at Christinas time sends his men to put up a tree and wire it for lighting. Some- how, the home hus populurized itself. | Up to the present, children from the orphanage have never been adopted into private honies. A new regulation has just third floor, the boys' on) been mace by which, in exceptional cases ond h floor has its own bath: | application for udoption will be considered. four of them, and in addition to The superintendent was influenced to this hese they huve shower baths, with olstep by a case some years ago when a jswimming-jool im the basement. Down: | wealthy mun in an Ontario town fell in aire there is a stady room, « room with | love a little three-yeur-old girl in the plants set an window alcoves and a fire-| orphanage and wanted to adopt her. Un pluce and little tables, where the children | der the regulations at that time she could work at their school lessons from seven not be adopted, and the man took another to eight every evening. The dining-room | little girl. She had all the advantages of is not at all like an institutional dining- | fine home. and when he died after she oom, Instead of the usual long able run-jhad grown up he left ber a httle fortune ning the full length of the room, the sup-' of her own. Still, in any case of adoption, rintenilent has tried to work in the fam-|the society will demand every aufeguard ily life xlea by having small tables each | for the child to seat four. If there are two children! Another form of adoption, however, is belonging to one-funily they sit at the pructised extensively. Each child in the same tuble, And just about meal time jorphanage is "adopted" by a court of no place in the builting is more inviting Forester, who write to him regularly, send than the ki chen, with all its spiced and shim presents at Christmas time and on his savoury smells of fresh baked pies and 'irthday and sometimes take a little NOW ARE IN A POSITION KNOW THAT IT IS AB- & Warren -Just where the bus tuims THAT IS A HOME Children's Home which tories ure on other home-cooked things, Visitors pase-) monthly collecticn for him. Some of the ing through nottge that the billof-fare is| children when they Ieave the orphanage the sate for the? staff as it is for the| have savings in the bank amounting close children to a hundred dollar from gifts and their The xame visitors, surveying the gen-{own earnings. They usually leave when eral furnishings of the place, th YD ----------$---- dno und the victrols, gifts of different For-| esters' courts, the hand-carved hall seat | with back rewching ultost to the ceiling, 4 piece of furniture that eume from. th home of Oronhyatekha and for which pri | vate individaals have offered fabulous pric-| es, the polished floors and shining stair ruil. might consider it un unwarrantable = expense jo kee up such a place for a crowd of riotous, growing elyldren. Buz othe chilleen qyureeinte their "surroundings | quae ae much, perhaps more, than most | other chbtren ina good. home, and. the | ring for it is not | ed, because they doit thers is nin drudgery in the work arcanegd here, Tt tukes only a é yinutes to tun an O:Cedar mop ove hed floor; it is wo hardshi) for a! ke his own bed. or for a girl hoy to to elear the table, The children have their own régular "'turns" for doing these ¢ and they seem to like to have their turns 'come. round--ineidentall a valuable domestic tr staff consists only of the steward, A. G. ' Homestead ; his wife, the matron; and ugsistant steward. A. G. Smith, who is a graduate of Oxford, an ideal companion for the boys and sn invaluable help when they come to their High School work; a cook and a housemsid---and it is a house- hold of forty-eight children. 'We could- jn't get maids of the kind we want," the 3 ' steward explained, "and we could' never get maihs todo. the work aswell or as willingly ss the boys do it. They are 60 ready to help. it's a pleasure to ask them to do anything. It is in this happy enthusiasm and in jitiative that we have the real test of the 'place, as a home for children, Many a. shining, perfectly cared for -- institution would 'kill this just as effectively as a |prison-house. It is an influence that ex- 'ists sometimes in schools and even hos- q of children together 1 colorless 'institutional mass is perhaps the most deadening influence possible to | personality and churacter. The superintendent of the home, J. C. |Morgun, appreciates this as few people do. "as public school inspector for thirty-seven 'years he had had a lot to do with childreo (before he took over the care of the For- Jesters' orphans, but even more valuable {than his experience was the natural love 'and understanding of children thst has made him "Daddy Morgun" to every fa- therless waif coming under his care. The smullér children run all over the farm af- ter him; the older ones arrange their meet- ngs more adroitly but just as effectively; they all go-to his home for private visits on every possible excuse; it is, the first [reason for the success of the orphanage, |- a director who sees each child as an indiv- dual, And the second reason is like the first--a steward and his wife who can cre- te in the residence an atmosphere of fam- lily life. 'To look into the big dining-room on a winter evening, with » wood fire blas- ing in the fireplace and spples roastiny on the fender, the tables puthed back ani the children dancing to the music of the phonosranh or player piano--for there's ever an evening that one or the other of these isn't in use, bne sees just a flock of care-free children enjoying themselves in the way they like best. The steward nd his wife sre always there supervising these gatherings, but it ian't any more like supervising than the kindly directing 'of any father and mother helping to en- jertain at their children's party. Ta other ways the system is f= tol _ 'sions to provide for the half-orphans have lost their fathers. They are at pre- sen' paying allowances for eight hundred children secording te sheir ned, and shey are perfectly assured of the efficient -work- ing out of a mothers' pension scheme. 4| PFice you now pay and if glance over the superintendent's daily mail Tea. 288 shows how effectively he js able to keep in = @ouch with, these children even by letter, After all, it's the personal element more | 8 it does to punish and a lot of the than anything else which is responsible for| people whom: we call criminals snd send |. the success of the whole institution: Mr. | from one prison to another for safe-keeping, Morgan has unlimited faith in the good in| tell us that they got their first start in|. 4 every boy, and he has an almost uncanny | some neur-prison type of 'home' or re- aptitude for finding it. "I started out|formatory where they were unfairly, in- many years ago." he says, "with the idea|considerstely, sometimes ev that there was no such thing as a bad boy.| treated and herded with a ci My experience hae proved that there isn't. | whose souls were seething ith the sume Of course if u boy bus lost his parents and] bitterness sx their own. If some of the been in un undesirable environment for|hoys who came through the Oskville Or- some time before we get him, he may have! vhanage hed been sent to an average "boy acquired some dangerously bad habits, but | home,' things might have been very differ. the life here seems to naturally cure them, |ent with them, Ax it is, one is 8 wireless One of the best boys we ever had was sent | operator of some reputation, another is u 'to us from a 'reform' school with the, buyer for a large departmental store, one record of being unmanageuble; one of our|is an electrical engineer, eighteen enlisted most tfustworthy graduates wns originally |in the army and navy during the war and an accerplished pickpocket. When a boy | three of these have commissions. comes to us. I see him first uf my own] And if we cannot have, for all the coun- home and we come to # certain under-|try's homeless children, the fine building standing. Speaking of what we expect of | and rather expensive appointments of the him, I say, "I expect you'll be mischievous; | Foresters' Orphanage, we could at lesst \1 was, myself, when T was your age--and | have comfortuble homelike place not you may be punished for it. I would like | crowded into a city block, but out in the you to be obedient, but you may not be, | open spaces of the country on a farm of! ulways, and you'll certainly be punished in | its own. We could take the children out |some way for disobedience. But two things 'of uniforms und send them to the public j1 want und must have: first, everything j«chool, and we could have larger Govern: Jyou tell me must be true, because from !ment granite to give euch home, especially now on I'm going to believe everything you | those for infants and small children, a staff 'say; xecond, I don't want you to do or! large enough so that every child might say or think ynything that you wouldn't have the individual attention it needs--a want your Dad, if be were living, to know | condition which is not found in many of |about.'. . . We try to make them un-|our infants' homes and shelters. And we j selfish." the superintendent adds, "'but you ' could have these people of the type who can't expect too much in the way of un:! would make up to the children something jrelfishness from children. Honesty and | of their birthright of a resl home end fain- purity, however. are essentials, and cur | ily life and affection boys go from us with w pretty high stand. we Tf this wi just the story of how "SHORT WEIGHT BUTTER one aed ite fag the cory of Hom | at Orlin tat wes, belone Police Mag phans, thge would be no worth-while pur. | MITAE | Oars ae eee ution of lees pose in telling it. The object in spreading | Charged with having offered butter of less ite eae ie that it pointe anew directign | {280 8 pound weight for sale on the mar- for other children's institutions -- homes, | Ket. The charges were laid in consequence ri} of complaints of frequent cases of short shelters, reformatories. Of course, -it will cakes of at he nrewedl that thin is an expensive scheme, | Welght. 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