10	MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
Student Life at Mooseheart
WRITTEN BY MOOSEHEART STUDENTS
some of their “junk” in and whist broom holders.
There are two classes one in the morning from eight thirty to ten thirty and one in the afternoon from two to four.
MOOSEHEART TELEPHONE EXCHANGE
By Philip Barto, Wheeling W. Va. Lodge No. 67
The Mooseheart telephone exchang'e is located in the south west corner of the Government’s Postoffice.
In the Mooseheart telephone system there are about ninety-five local lines and six trunk lines.
There are three regular telephone operators and several substitutes. There are two girls whose duty is to operate the board between 7 A. M. and 10 P. M. At ten o'clock a Mooseheart student takes charge of the board. Many responsibilities rest on him. In case of fire or sickness he has to be prepared to answer any calls. His hours are between 10 P. M. and 7 A. M. As there is a rule that there shall be no ordinary calls between these hours there are very few night calls. Therefore the night operator has a bed in the exchange and only answers calls when signalled.
The duty of the relief operators is to substitute in cases of sickness or absence of the regular operators.
“MOVIES” AT MOOSEHEART
By William Thomas, Waterbury, Conn. Lodge No. 703
Perhaps one of the most interesting places to visit is the “movies”. The movies come once a week on Saturday evening.
The first thing that attracts your attention is the orchestra. There are seven members in it. They play fine music until something exciting comes along in a picture. Then you see some excited player pumping away for all he is worth on his violin. This is hard on the music, but he soon calms down again.
One of the main features is the serial. I don’t mean breakfast food but an exciting picture. We’ll call it “Dashing Dick the Daring Dealer” it runs for about two months at a stretch. You see him on the screen fighting about ten fellows at once. Some excited boy is heard to say “Give it to ’em, if you need any help call on me.” Just about this time the heroine appears on the screen with a revolver in her hand and saves the day. The students then all let out a yell for joy.
Then we have a two reel comedy. Nearly every one enjoys this, but there are exceptions to every rule. In one corner sit two boys arguing.
One is heard to say “I don’t believe that old “pitchers” true. How could a fellow walk on water tell me that will you?”
Second boy, “Oh you ‘fat head’ it ain’t s’possed to be true that water is painted on there and the man is a dummy.”
Next picture starts so the boys dropped the argument for the evening. This is a current event. This picture is over. The sign Good-Night is flashed on the screen, the Orchestra plays a final selection. Then we are on our way home.
POULTRY
By Alvin Cashdollar, Export, Pa. Lodge No. 234
Mooseheart is fortunate to have such successful results with their poultry, partly due to the good management and possibly due to its fully equipped modern houses, which is one
buys several of the pieces for the Victrola and he tells us everything about the composer and there is generally a story about his composing the piece. This makes it very interesting.
Music is very essential to well educated people and this is why MOOSEHEART is giving its students an education along this line.
THE CENTRAL DINING HALL FOR EMPLOYEES
By Ellsworth Faust, Morristown, Pa. Lodge No. 213
The Central Dining Hall is situated near the center of MOOSEHEART, on the ground floor of the large Assembly Hall. It is maintained mainly for the purpose of boarding employees although a few others eat their noon lunch there.
The dining hall, itself, is about forty feet square and the kitchen, which is adjoined, is about two-thirds as large. The kitchen contains all the up-to-date improvements, such as an electric potatoe washer, and automatic dish washer and an automatic coffee and tea boiler.
There are two cooks and four waitresses employed there. Meals are served at seven o’clock in the morning, twelve o’clock at noon and at six o’clock at night. The dining hall is not only used by the resident employees, but also by the office employees. The office men eat here only at noon, as it saves them carrying• their lunch.
THE SHEET METAL CLASS
By Walter Schmidt, Milwaukee, Wis. Lodge No. 47
The sheet metal class has been going for some time. When a boy first enters the sheet metal class he is taught how to take the soldering iron and fix it so he lead will stick on the iron. After the boy has learned to take care of the iron ,he makes some cups, funnels, and other useful things to get used to handling the soldering iron.
After he learns this he can make whatever he cares to make. Some of the boys make little tin boxes to keep
After he has been there a month he makes moulds out of the models he made. This is done by greasing the model and then covering it with plaster. When the plaster di’ies it comes off and he has a plaster mould.
The glue mould which is much easier to make is used for making statuary and other small articles in plaster. First thing you do is to cover the statue with clay about two inches thick all around, then you cover it with plaster, first on one side and then on the other. When the plaster is dry it is taken off and you have two pieces, the clay is taken off the statue and then the statue is set in the middle of the two pieces of plaster. Then it is locked. Hot glue is poured in between the statue and the two pieces of plaster and when it cools or thickens you have what is called the glue mould.
MUSIC
By Louise Sauer, San Francisco, Cal. Lodge No. 26
Music is one of the most important things taught at Mooseheart. Most all the older students have one or more
instruments. There are a few students who are being especially trained in music.
There are great opportunities for those who take lessons on a musical irutrument. We go to hear concerts given by orchestras and we have heard many musical programs given in near by cities and towns. We also have the chance once in a while to see the Operas in Chicago. These are not seen by all the students taking lessons, but those generally who belong to the singing clubs.
Those in the hand have had the privilege of taking trips to distant cities. The Western trip was taken in 1915. In 1919 the band went on an Eastern trip. This gave the members of the band a good opportunity to visit places where they had never been before or might never go.
Music is one of the important things of our daily Assembly. The students taking piano lessons play pieces and those taking music on other instruments play solos.
When we are going to hear a concert, Mr. Reeder, the band master,
LIVING AT ROOSEVELT HALL, MOOSEHEART
By Thomas Jones, Scranton, Pa. Lodge No. 42
There is no reason to believe that the boys living in Roosevelt Hall should not be as happy as they are, because of the fact that they are popular and always in the public eye.
When visitors enter Roosevelt Hall the first question they ask Doc. Patterson, the Mooseheart guide, is, “What is the partition for in the rear of the hall?”
Then “Doc” Patterson tells them all about the boys sleeping back there. There are twenty-four boys that sleep back of that partition every night, regardless of what is going on out in the auditorium. If there is a dance going on instead of walking through the hall, the boys go round outside, come through the fire escape door and go to bed.
There is one thing rather convenient about living in this Hall. That is, on Saturday evening when the movies are shown the boys merely step out of their dormitory and are at the show. It is. also, handy on Sunday morning, because there is no chance of being late and getting demerits.
Every day in the week something is going on in the Auditorium. When it isn’t Assembly, it is church or band practice. Judging from that, there isn’t much chance for the boys to get lonesome.
The boys are looking to the future when they will be in tents out at the Lake for Superintendent Adams says they will be the first to go camping.
LIFE AT PURITY HALL, MOOSEHEART
By Madeline Sauer, San Francisco, Cal., Lodge No. 26
Purity Hall is one of the first buildings that was built. It was built in 1914 and it holds fifty girls. There are three bedrooms, clothesroom, play room, living room and kitchen and dining room besides the two matron’s rooms.
Each girl is assigned to her special task in the morning. These are finished in three quarters of an hour.
There is a cook in the hall but three girls help her put things on the table.
There is a piano in the hall and several girls can play exceptionally well, so there is always plenty of music. A victrola was given to the girls hy a Chicago Lodge and they send out records quite often, so we are supplied with lots of music.
From seven until eight the girls write letters, play games or play and sing, but when the eight o’clock whistle blows you see us buried in algebra, arithmetic and history books. Our study periods last for one hour.
From four to five in summer we spend our time playing tennis, basket b !1 and other outside games, but in winter, reading books is our best past time.
Sometimes during Saturday when it is too cold to go out, we spend our time poping popcorn or making candy.
We never lack comforts nor playmates, we certainly ought to be contented.
CEMENT CLASS
By Dick Whelan, Butte, Mont. Lodge No. 431
When a student first enters the cement class he is given a board and some modeling clay. He is then expected to try to model whatever the instructor gives him. If he does his first model pretty good he is given another, he continues modeling until his time is up which is about a month.