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THE LAKE SHORE NEWS, FRIDAY, FEBRUARY 27, 1920 <p» Activities s- INorth Jhor? Chita OF all the problems which we have come to group under the term "child welfare" the most important is the care of the dependent child, the child who is without home or proper parental care or protection. How much easier it is to train a little girl to he a self-respecting and self-supporting-" woman than it is to do anything for a girl who has become delinquent because she was neglected! This vital problem is being solved in a measure by the main- tenance of the Park Ridge School for Girls, thirteen miles from Chicago. Although the law calls this an industrial school it is evi- dent to a visitor that it is also a home for the 120 girls who live there. There is a general mistaken impression that it is for the accommodation of delinquent girls. This, however, is not the case, as there is no equipment to deal with delinquents or subnormals and such cases are not taken. Most of the girls are dependents or wards of the courts, and there are some whose fee of $15 a month is paid by relatives or interested friends. The Illinois cottage, completed in 1915, was the gift of the State Federation of Women's Clubs. Sixteen girls were thereby added to the number for whom the directors must provide. Feeling the obli- gation, the federation established a maintenance fund for this pur- pose, to which the clubs in the state make yearly contributions. Last spring a committee was appointed to raise a fund of $5,000 to aid, in the maintenance of the cottage. Having raised the stipu- lated amount, the committee members have agreed to continue the drive for several months longer, owing to the fact that the value of a dollar has decreased with the boost in the price of living. So the goal of $10,000 has been set. one. There was a lecture to begin with, but the kind of a lecture that keeps one's mind on the jump every minute. This was followed by games, semaphore, knot-tying, and drill, and the young women who attended the class left with their heads buzzing and spent the following day tying all their clotheslines into bowlines and reef-knots and waving their arms in a wild imitation of semaphore while they waited for the car. "If this work has such a fascina- tion for the child which still lingers in grown-ups, how much more must it thrill little girls. There are rec- ords of unheard-of feats of self-de- nial, when girl scouts have gone with- out candy and sundaes for months at a time, while working for health badges. One mother said that scout- ing had even made dishwashing at- tractive to her daughterâ€"and if this can be done, in these days of scarce domestic help, let us encourage scout- ing, by all means!" AN ESSAY ON GEESE "Geese is a heavy-set bird with a head on one side and a tail on the other. His feet is set so far back on his running gear that they nearly miss his body. Some geese is ganders and has a curl in his tail. Ganders don't lay or set. They just eat, loaf and go swimming. If I had to be a geese, I would rather be a gander. Geese do not give milk, but give eggs. But for me, give liberty or give me death."â€"A school boy's composition, from Capper's Weekly. Try an Electric cabinet or Rain-Bo Bath for ifen and Women. North Shore Hotel, by appt. Phone Evanston 6424, â€"Adv. L.TG16-tfc KLEVER CLUB SUBSCRIPTION DANCE EVANSTON WOMAN'S CLUB The Best Music on the North Shore Every Saturday Nigh- Admission $1.50 Members of Le Ccrcle Francais will be interested in the lecture to be given by Mademoiselle Marguer- ite Clement of the Lycee of Versailles on "What America Can i Teach .France and What France Can Teach America," at the home of Mrs. Ham- ilton McCormick, 631 Rush street, Chicago, on Saturday morning, March 6, at 11 o'clock. This program is given for the benefit of "Le Cercle Francais Bed," which has been founded at the American Memorial Hospital at Rheims, France. It takes $6,000 to en- dow one bed, and up to date, $3,380.70 has been raised. "Work Among the Italians at the Eli Bates Settlement," illustrated with slides, will be one of the inter- esting subjects to be discussed at the meeting of the Winnetka Woman's club on Thursday afternoon of next week. Mrs. C. Franklin Leavitt will be the speaker. Mrs. Frances Dick- inson will tell of the work being done at the Ridge Farm. Preceding the program, a short business session will be held. The hostesses for the after- noon will be Mcsdames Luther Bar- ber, Arthur S. Klein, Francis P. Ma- son and Miss Martha Gemmell. "Many schemes have been devised for the education of children through play, but none of these is better than the scout idea," says Miss Bertha B. Howell of Evanston, who is now dis- trict director of girl scouts in Illinois, Indiana and Wisconsin. "Girls everywhere are clamoring to become scouts, and it has been found that there are not enough trained [ leaders to take charge of them, so j ♦ he first training class for girl scout I leaders was organized in Chicago , Monday night. The class was so poo- ] u'-t that tr has been decider! to start I ^othrrs and it is honed that there mav nmi he rnoiteh leaders to take cham-r of ev<*rv firrrnin of nirte that asks for scouting, and to rdve thorn the tr^Jn- <'""% the work ntfl n'nv. which thev are so eaererlv seeking. "This trninitio- cla^s was a hnsi Our Assortment of Rubber Goods is the Largest and Best in Chicago Purchase Your Rubber Necessities From Dm and Guarantee their Wear W.H.Salisbury&CiK I»t>bll»tl*4 1MS 308 W. 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