MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
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moved in prayerful thanks to those who had made all these things possible. The very air seemed to be charged with a spirit of holiness. I felt a devout man! The merry laugh and ringing shout of children’s voices brought me back from my reverie. I looked upon those happy faces and smiled. Impulsively, I could have joined them in the games, for I seemed to experience the joys of a happy father for his child. There seemed to be a mutual responsiveness I could not explain or understand. Then my mind went back to the day when they first saw MOOSEHEART and why they were there. And I thought of the father of that child who had labored “until man’s work is done,” when the spirit goes marching on; of the circle that had been broken; of the faithful and sorrowing wife and her little children. I thought of their friends who had given them counsel and advice; of the State that had offered them cold sympathy; of the Orphans’ Home where brother and sister would kiss each other a sad farewell. There my thoughts rested. For I beheld the little children coming home from Kindergarten and the elder ones from school, comparing their lessons as they wended their way. I saw others schooled in arts and handicrafts, and beheld the magnificent work of the more experienced. I saw children from Alaska and from the Panama; from all States and from all climes. Each receiving his daily training in the SCHOOL THAT TRAINS FOR LIFE. Then I thought of their foster fathers who shared with me in this responsibility. Of the Legion mothers whose maternal instincts had found a new field of labor and love. And I thought of the evening hour when those children, praying, on bended knees at their bedside, offering with thankful hearts their songs of praise to Him who rules over all, and I thought I could see the loving smile when he heard His children say: “God bless MOOSEHEART, and make me a good child for the sake of daddy in heaven. Amen.”
By LOUIS W. HARVISON, A Mooseheart Student
Shoes
The Junior Students have but one pair of shoes while the Seniors have two pairs, commonly called “Sunday and week day ones.” Each student is to make a pair of shoes last at least six months. If they happen to grow out of them they are handed in to the cobbler who in turn delivers them to a smaller boy when needed.
When the younger students have their one pair of shoes mended they are given a pair of substitutes (used only for this purpose) and they wear these until their others are returned. There are rules which require the students to keep their shoes well oiled and shined; this preserves the leather and also gives them a good appearance.
Heat and Light
Just before Winter comes there is enough coal purchased to last until Spring, but this does not mean that any is wasted. There is not any more heat and light generated than is really needed. When vacating a room the students are sure to turn off the heat and also the lights if it was so dark that they had to be used. During the Winter months the street lights are illumined from seven to ten P. M. and in the Summer from 9 to 10 P. M.
With such careful ways of living and such watchfulness there can be NOTHING WASTED AT MOOSEHEART.
My Impression of Mooseheart
By Brother William Hayhurst St. Louis, Mo.
As I gazed upon MOOSEHEART I became conscious of my existing liabilities there. The lessons I had" been taught in my early days of Moosedom teachings now confronted me with a stern realism. My lips unconsciously
Food
The dietitian, Miss Myrtle Bartholomew, is one of the main factors in conserving food at MOOSEHEART. Each week she makes up a menu which has on it all the meals for the following week. These menus are sent to the cook of each Hall and they prepare just what it says. No two are alike and the dietitian spends hours in her cooking department making dainties that can be served to the students. A sample of the menu is as follows:
Sunday, February 15th, 1920
BREAKFAST Grape Nuts
Bran Muffins
Postum DINNER Beef Roast Mashed Potatoes Lettuce Salad
Olives Rolls
Milk
SUPPER Sandwiches
Cake
Cocoa
The cooks send an order to the store each day for the food for the three meals. The amount of food sent to each Hall varies according to the number of students. A careful account of what is used each day is kept by the matron or proctor, and if there is a waste it is remedied by sending a smaller order from the store.
Often during the hot summer months the milk sours before it can be used to drink. In this case most people would throw it away but at MOOSEHEART it is used to make cottage cheese or pancakes. To save on meat the Farm Department purchases a large herd of steers from the stockyards, then fattens them by letting them clean up the corn stumps after the harvest. Each week j stee? is slaughtered and eaten.
Jam
Celery
Cake
Fruit
CARELESSNESS and WASTE find no place at MOOSEHEART to exercise their habits. Everything is cared for with such an economic plan that it would be imposible for them to get a ^tart. Also the students are taught the full meaning of the word ECONOMY.
The General Store
As you enter the “Mooseheart General Store” you take a journey down a long and wide promenade. On either side is a counter and in back of these counters are various departments such as the boys’ clothing store, the shoe shop, the girls’ clothing store, the sewing room, the grocery store, the meat market and the hardware store.
Mr. Hugo Doebler directs the com-misary department and there are placed in his charge several people who take care of the stores mentioned above. These people hand in a daily report of their work and also hold a meeting once a month and invent more economic ways of living for the students if possible.
Clothing
If the students are in need of clothing they go to their matron or proctor for a requisition and have written on It just what they need. A requisition is an order, when properly signed it allows the students their desired amount of clothing. Before the matron issues any orders she makes sure that the clothing is really needed. Then she looks over the “hand-me-downs” to see if anything can be used from there.
The “hand-me-downs” are popular at MOOSEHEART. Question some of the students and you will find that they are wearing some of their larger brothers’ clothes. Perhaps it is a coat or a pair of trousers with large patches in it from which they get all possible wear. Along will come Thomas Laughlin of Newark, Ohio, Lodge No. 499 wearing the Editor of the Mooseheart Weekly’s old blue sweater. The Editor has out-grown his and is fortunate enough to get a new one.
Death of Supreme Councilman, John B. Price
At that Convention he was elected to the Supreme Council and has served upon that body ever since.
The Price family and the Davis family were neighbors in the town of Tredegar in Wales. Brother Price as a young lad was one of the first to bounce the Davis baby on his knee.
John B. Price was a fraternal man of remarkable ability. He has been for years a leader in Masonic circles in Chicago. He was also Past Noble Grand of the Odd Fellows. In addition to his fraternal connections he was a loyal churchman and dearly beloved by all his neighbors and friends.
For the last twenty-five years Brother Price has been Chief Clerk in the Office of the Superior Court Cook County.
The funeral of Brother Price was held at the Masonic Temple, South Chicago, Tuesday, February 3rd. Director General Davis, Past Supreme Dictators Ford and Henning formally represented the Supreme Lodge at the funeral.
JOHN B. PRICE
The many friends of the Honorable John B. Price, for years connected in official capacity with the Supreme Lodge, Loyal Order of Moose, and with political leadership in Chicago, Illinois, will be shocked to learn that Brother Price died at his home in South Chicago, Friday evening, January 30th, 1920.
Brother Price some eighteen months ago began to have difficulty with an infection at the base of one of his teeth. For eighteen months he fought this difficulty which resulted in operation after operation, in the endeavor to exclude the poison from his blood. Although battling stubbornly to the end, he was finally forced to defeat.
Back in the year 1909 when Director General Davis was endeavoring to secure a start for the Loyal Order of Moose in Illionis, he went to Brother Price״ whom he had known since his birth and induced Brother Price to become the first dictator of Chicago Lodge. In the Convention at St. Paul, in the fall of 1909 Brother Price was one of the chief figures.