Kansas City National Training School - Shield Yearbook (Kansas City, MO)

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mail box and see how happy they are as they get their letters from home. The dinner bell has rung and they finish reading their letters as they go to the dining room. No wonder the girls look so well. I wish you could see those tables! Such good meals as they do have: it's a balanced menu, too, and what a variety! Meal- time is always a time of happy fellowship together. I believe those girls really like to wash dishes. They are good make-believes, if they do not thoroughly enjoy it. From dinner until 2:00 o'clock is a happy time fOr all. There goes a group of girls to Jackson, 110 the Sub-station Post Office: there are others taking a hlke- Here is a group of Seniors in our room. What are they making? Oh, to be sure, collars and cuffs and ties! I should have known without even seeing them. One of the girls in our room is taking the Kinder- garten Course. She does practice work in the Public School and is gone all afternoon. But the girl to whom I belong spends the afternoon from 2:00 until 5:00 studying. She stops studying at 5:00, though, for it is mail time again. This time she receives a letter from her Queen Esther Circle at home saying they are sending a barrel of fruit to K. C. N. T. S. She spends the next half-hour writing to them. Her letter was so interesting, I wouldn't be surprised if those girls all want, to come here to school. Supper-time and every one hungry! They w0n't be, though, in forty-five minutes. Now they are plag- ing their chairs in a circle around the room for family prayers. Some one asks to sing, Take Time to be Holy. After this a number lead in definite prayers of thankfulness to the Heavenly Father for leading them to this home and school and for the privilege of Page 56 working for Him. They pray for the girls who have been here, for those who will come, and also remember the loved ones atxhome. The sunset is beautiful tonight. Many of the girls are watching it, talking of the Great Artist and ex- pressing a desire that their lives may speak as beau- tifully for Him as does all nature. The tennis court is in use tonight, as it always is in good weather. Some of the girls are good players, too. They are having an exciting set as I point to 7:00 o'clock, but they must quit for they know they must study their Psychology for tomorrow and find out what Martin Luther, Zwingli and Calvin are doing in Church History. So they study until 9:30. I continue my tickity-tick-tick-tick and, as I point to 10:00, off goes the light because they never stay up later than 10:00 HJ Good-night, Room-mate. Good-night, I am so glad you are my room-mate! Hasn't this been a good day ? . To this they both agree, but they say this every nlght, for they are all busy, happy days. Oh, Room-mate, do you know tomorrow is Wed- nesday and I have about ten calls to make in the after- noon ? Yes, and Thursday, we are going to have a lec- ture on Campfire work. I wonder what we will do in the parlor Friday night? Well, whatever it is, we are sure to have a good time. Then Saturday night-and prayer-meeting! How time flies! But we must go to sleep. .Tickity-tick-tick-tick! I am so glad I am here fOr If I were not, how would those girls ever get to meals and classes on time? Tickity-tick-tick-tick.

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cfm M. iq. at s. at ic. oi. .at s. llmiirrra President--Miss Galliers. Vice-President-Miss Miller. Recording Secretary-Miss Berdine. Corresponding Secretary-Miss Neiderheiser. Treasurer-Miss Tice. Secretary of Mite-Box Work-Miss Swartz. . Secretary of Young Peoples' Work-Miss Minme Smith. Secretary of Temperance-Miss Hobbs. Secretary of Literature-Miss Tibbets. Secretary of Systematic Beneficence-Miss Lyon. Secretary of Reading Circle-Miss Reid. Secretary of Mission Supplies-Miss Hunt. Secretary of Evangelism-Miss Long. Secretary of Deaconess Work--Miss Bahnson. , Do you mean to tell me that you don't like Mis- sionary Meetings? Oh well, I'll forgive you for I used to feel like that myself, but since I came to K. C. N. T. S. I have changed my mind. Nothing is dull here and certainly not our auxiliary meetings, which are held once each month. At the first meeting last October We received twenty-seven new members. Of course, the Freshman did not know much about the work of the Society, so Miss Garretson gave a review of the different fields helped by our auxiliary. Some of these fields are: Alaska, the Mexican Mission work in Kansas City, the Daily Vacation Bible School, Epworth Home in St. Louis, the work at Albuquerque, New Mexico, and many others. Do we give money? Of course we do. Last year we went over the top on our 31,000 pledge and found Palo 58 we had a total of S107626. This so inspired us that we immediately made our pledge for the new year 351,200 We were each given a mite-box and, of course, wondered how we could earn money to fill it while here in school. But our worries were soon ended and the perplexing question answered-by our Bulletin Board. Every day we received a new idea by such startling notices, as the following, placed there by ambitious mite-box money earners: Special sale of Larkin Goods, northwest corner Fourth and Schoellkopff' Stockings darned, five cents a small hole. Hair shampooed and finger nails manicured. Typewriter for rent-ten cents an hour. and many others, supplying urgent needs. Oh no, we do not reach our goal by this work alone-added to it