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TEE MOTION PICTURE STORY MAGAZINE
A PLAY IN THE THEATER
Tuberculous children are in an open-air school up on the roof of the Smith building. Children in their own homes, chronically ill, or too crippled to attend school, are visited regularly by teachers, who give them individual instruction in such arts and manual training as they may be adapted for. In addition to these branches there is the regular kindergarten and the various playgrounds.
Crossing the quadrangle, one is suddenly in the midst of the children playing there. Happy and safe are they. No danger of passing automobiles, no harmful associations around them, no decaying fruit to tempt their appetites, no foul odors to imperil their health. A playground that is better than a city playground, for it has the homely atmosphere of one's own back dooryard. So the children regard it with an affection far beyond that of the city playgrounds.
Little Jakie always walks home with "Grandma" when she finishes her work at the loom. The looms are in
the labor museum, and nowhere in the whole building is there a more interesting exhibit. Those in charge of the museum, who have watched its growth in usefulness and the development of its resources, are always enthusiastic in setting forth its various interests. It has bridged past life in Europe with American experience, and gives to each a sense of relation.
Long ago it was discovered that many of the neighborhood people came directly from southeastern Europe, where industrial processes are still carried on by the most primitive methods. As one woman teacher expressed it, "it was not unusual to find an old Italian woman holding a distaff and spinning with the simple, stick spindle, which had certainly been used when David tended his sheep in Bethlehem." Four primitive methods of spinning were discovered, and at least three different variations of the same spindle put into connection with wheels. These seven methods were