The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, August 3, 1902, Page 10

10 THE SUNDAY CALL. TY loose hungry youngsters hard. “All aboard for Cherryville,” he shout- the children piled in. Then away 1 a cherry ol frolic ed fes s went to the Berkeley hills and hours < o e e e “If people only knew how helpful our of windows and dishes, cleaning of sflver thefr generous hostess could gather; and 2 a ¢ b e feokn A evoant B et boys are,” she added, “‘we would not have and laying and clearing of the table, as if these cherries, picked by hot, unskillful ar 1t S chieicies: Batkonel o ke 20 much trouble in finding homes for well as walting during the meals. little hands, did not reach San Anselmo in th gt was ' ders for those who could ste them. You see we find homes for our - “Those two children,” sald Miss Har- quite as good condition as might be, it s for those who could not a children at the age of 14 and with the ris pointing to a small boy and girl, did not much matter, for two ten-pound v ‘ 1 5 glils this is npt a difficult matter, but the whose peaked faces betokened want and boXes of cholcest fruit had been shipped £ of s v e S Pne A boye—" and she shook her head. “If the suffering, “have been with us only a early in the day and must have reached he the ir with a load of this Berkeley housewives could see our boys ghort time. They were living in a wagon the mission before the child 3 purless but en- work, I wonder if they might not prove with their father, who in the season is a When the youngsters climb - nal to move on a partial solution of that distressing prob- hop picker. After they had been with us wagons and carts and buggies for the re- C ipped of every- lem, the servant question.” a few weeks the little girl wrote to him, —turn trip It suggested the question of who ki g thing but les “But what of the girls?” she was and in her letter, after enumerating the Wwas paying their fares. In explanation Of the 1 “0l1d Pete,” ed. good things she had to eat, added, ‘Do Mr. Whitney sald: whose rh tiffer No, she did not say that with a view you always have enough to eat HOW, ‘“One does not have {o be in California ™ gave no evidence of a ce 24 career to the possible evolution of a race of papa? long to know that the Californfan meves g siox on the turf, was the prime favorite. sturdy mothers they were being exercised By this time the cherry pickers had be- objects to an assessment. He is as ac- know X Birth and breeding will tell even in a in outdoor sports and work. come quite expert, but a halt was called, customed to them as Be is to sper ¥y § e o v 2 or - e climate. o e day In a cherry tree, apidated and antiquated racehorse, and They do most of the sewing, and this and though it was hard to see how there He submits gracefully and sy er ree, and every gja Pete responded with serene digr {s no bagatelle when one hundred and cculd be any room left, the children sat -yory porm of taroiion o vl g l,akng twenty-five children are to be clothed, not down to a bountiful spread provided oy t of real, red- the demands of his small but impatient to speak of the mending of two hundred the good folks who were their hosts. the shape of an g 08t worth be- 30, assessment. I just sa'd to a few friends, ‘You are assessed so r that. “There are not encugh children on this and fitty patrs of hose each wWeek,” 8he In the row of faces that lined the IO much for tha fares of the Beo b now what it horee,” cried Mr. Whitney, as he watched replied. table there was that sdme strange €0S- orphans, and that settled m:"mna’elf“’ ; 1 came, they with enjoyment the depredations of the Keeping ever watchful eyes on thelr But listen to the radical featurs of this ‘What an awtul total. No wonder the mgpolitan mixture for which San Fran T Ve At ik il L g Ig Out after they well-behaved young vand AHstel bt res: . it UAARIRIE . FEAnAR s Cut el boys do the housework at San Anselmo. cisco is famous. The San Amselmo or- = w3 % MEPPY < ged t lav:h nlca, B 2 Berkeley ation in the late They ought to if for nothing more than to phans are of every nationality. There is pay the girls for keeping their toes and 5 Chinese boy, who Is being taught with sonny, come and take a ride” and he stretched to seize unripe fruit before it At the San Anselmo Mission it is the never ran more swung a blue sunbonneted baby of three could find its way into a hungry mouth, boys, not girls, that do the housework— afternoon, and if the new hospital was not used that to the eager sey- on the very neck of the patlent animal, Miss Osbourne, the superintendent, and the washing of garments, windows and knees covered and their buttons on. a view to future misslonary work in hiS guit of their ho it NOS. Shnowniy. 9o ed on the forward who was swathed and blanketed from Miss Florence Harrlg, the matron, talked dishes, sweeping of rooms, scrubbing of ~ “This is our Maid Marian,” sald Miss own country; an Indian girl from Alaska, gty than disereti b % ’2"" Sener- E mane to tall in an endeavor not so much of the institution which, under the pres- floors, making of beds and helping in the Osbourne, calling to her side a tiny mite an Eskimo from the shores of Berm& [.,vided an uniin % Wood man hea Ok h, we're going right into the to protect the clothes of the riders as to idency of Mrs. P. D. Brown of San kitchen. in a quaint little red dress. Straits and Swedish, Itallan, German and 414 cookies for ¢ 1 supply of cakes piped a m irl as the boat even up certaln irregularities incident to Rafael, Is dojing such efficient work. Listen again to what the matron says With & bow as quaint as het figure and English children. 3 e trip, . ’ rheumatism and age. This mission is only seven years old of them: dress, Mald Marlan responded, looking After luncheon the children fell to pick- In the ds word eyel we'd Besl the stepladders, wooden and and contains 125 children. It has its own *If one will only be little patient boys not more than eight of her twelve years, ing cherries again, but this time it was newer t¥an it is r rd cyclone was a little colored boy fonddess for big was four-legged, there was a little dogeart schoolhouse with two resident teachers, are really better in all branches of house- ‘with her chubby face and a form sug- for their comrades, who had not been who had the decided of excuse drawn by Dolly with her innocent-eyed and twenty acres for playgrounds. The work than girls. They are stronger, more estive of good feeding and no trace of fortunate enough'to be of the party. They words lived near my grandpa’s h At Berkeley station Mr. colt ambling by her side or getting its fact that its hospital, dedicated last Sep- painstaking and quite as reliable and as overworked muscles. Yet this child’s "did their best, and it was a good best, too, day, on seeing a large‘ cln'xd ’m”;:e' Sne Whitney wi'!: an array of awkward little legs tangled up with the tember, has never had an occupant easily trained into those habits of neat- share of work is taking care of the din- to atone to those at home for their loss, hevrx'mklrkvdl i vehicles that would do credit to a wa other babies, and this cart, too, bore its speaks well both for the management ness so necessary to the comfort of a ing-room set apart for the ladies of the by filling all the shoe boxes, biscuit boxes, “My! What a blg cloud! Th store, for he had not only ransacked his happy freight of fruit gatherers. and the location of the home. good housekeeper. institution, scrubbing the floor, washing baskets and paper horns of plenty which be an encyclopedia comin’ ¥ S e