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MOOSEHEART MAGAZINE
MOOSEHEART SERVICE
By LOUIS W. HARVISON, A Mooseheart Student
The Stone Children
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OOSEHEART is now a family of more than eight hundred students with more than a thousand acres of fertile soil and fifty-seven buildings. It has been christened a city— “The City of Childhood.” The boys and girls of the deceased members of the Loyal Order of Moose are the men and women of this city, home and school.
Mable Stone, age 9, and Charles Stone, age 4, from Syracuse, New York, Lodge No. 625, came to MOOSEHEART on June 1, 1920. Read what Mable says about her daddy and the Loyal Order of Moose.
“Daddy was a Moose ever since I could remember. He belonged to other organizations but he said they were not as good as the Moose. He was a machinist and said it was a working man’s lodge. Mamma didn’t believe in joining too many lodges; said it cost too much money. But there came a time when daddy got hurt in the shop and was laid up in bed for almost eight weeks. All during that time the Moose sent money and Mamma declared it was the only thing that kept us going.
“My brother Charles and I had the flu last year and it cost so much daddy had to drop membership in all lodges but the Moose. Last January Mamma and daddy got sick and died. This left Charles and me all alone. The Moose Lodge took charge of the burial. From then until coming to MOOSEHEART ־־־ were cared for by the Moose.
“When my playmates ■found out I was going to a school they told me it would be a place with a high wall, where they whipped you with a paddle so hard that you had to eat your meals standing up,
and fed you nothing but beans, milk and mush. I was scared and didn’t want to go.
“When Charles and I came to MOOSEHEART we found it to be entirely different from what my playmates had said. There are no high walls and we are free to go to each other’s home and have a good time. The eats are great. Superintendent Adams told us that when we got older we'could learn to play music. Charles is going to play in the band and I’m going to play in the orchestra.
“Best of all, I’m not alone. I’ve got six hundred thousand daddies, all Moose. I’m glad my daddy was a Moose!”
The Adams Children
ANDERSON, Indiana, Lodge No. 1 certainly has a right to be proud of their little wards, Ruby Caroline Adams, age 8, and Yera Belle Adams, age 5. They are two of MOOSEHEART’S finest little girls. Their sweet wavs and kindly disposition have won for them many friends.
Their father, who was a member in good standing of Anderson Lodge No. 1, and the mother were professionals on the vaudeville stage. While engaged in such work, they taught their oldest girl, Ruby, to sing and act. She showed great talent and would have made that her life work had not the death of her mother intervened. The father retired from the stage, returned to his old home, Anderson, Indiana, and obtained another means of living.
In January, 1919, the father became seriously ill and knew he was going to die. Many people wanted to adopt his children, with the idea of placing them on the stage, but the father objected to that kind of a life and asked that they be sent to MOOSEHEART. After the father had passed away the children were cared for by Anderson Lodge No. 1. In the meantime applications were made for their admittance to MOOSEHEART. They were immediately passed upon by the Governors of MOOSEHEART and in April of 1919 they were accepted as students.
There is a bright future in store for the Adams children. At MOOSEHEART are countless opportunities and through careful teaching they will take advantage of some of them. The girls and boys are treated as ladies and gentemen and when acknowledging them as such they try to live up to expectations by doing and acting as ladies and gentlemen. MOOSEHEART gives boys and girls a chance!
Ruby possesses a wonderful voice.
The singing teacher at MOOSEHEART has given her study for the past year and says that she is his best pupil. During the recent Convention of the Loyal Order of Moose held at MOOSEHEART, Ruby sang before an audience of two thousand Moose. Her sweet, silver toned voice touched the heart and brought tears to the eyes of all that heard her. She had to sing several encores. Ruby Adams, through MOOSEHEART care and teaching will no doubt become a great exnonent of the art.