The Lutheran Pioneer St. Louis — 1921, Page 28

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The Lutheran Pioneer.

of the girls. ‘The young women —a few returned
to their homes on account of sickness — are crowded
into the three classrooms of the Mission School
building, located a stone’s throw from the €ollege.
Two classrooms have been converted into four small
sleeping apartments. The partition walls consist of
heavy paper. In each room, besides a trunk for
each girl, there are five single beds, and two girls
for each bed. At the time of our visit three girls
were sick, but they cannot be isolated, as there is

under the circumstances. There is no room for a
laundry.

We climb the stairs to the attic of the main
building, the dormitory of the male students. or-
merly the attie was used as a storeroom for old and
broken furniture, lumber, and all kinds of discarded
articles. Now it has been transformed into sleeping
apartments for the boys. 'The same material used
for the partition walls in the girls’ dormitory, heavy
paper, is found here, too. The writer has no desire

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Prospective Lutheran Lady Teachers Busy in the Laundry.
Excavations for this basement under Immanuel School made after completion of bullding.

no arrangement and xo room for a hospital. In
the third classroom all the girls live and study.

In the basement, which has no floor, toilets have
een installed, but the bathing facilities are very
unsatisfactory. Here, too, the laundry is located,
that is, the clothes are boiled in big black kettles
on the outside of the building, carried into the basc-
ment to be washed, and, when dried, brought into
the study and living-room to be ironed. The girls
are divided into groups. Each group has its laundry-
day. The work is generally done after the recitation
periods every afternoon and on Saturdays. This
is the best provision that can be made for them

to criticize the plans, the material, and the workman-
ship. Credit must be given to the college authorities
for providing temporary shelter for the many new
students quickly and economically. It was the
best the faculty could do under the circumstances.
The rooms are crowded with beds, trunks, and suit-
cases, and there is absolutely no room for anything
else. We heartily pity the boys who are to spend
their nights in spring and summer under the slate
roof of the college, when once it is heated by
a Southern sun. * :

We accompany the President, Prof. Phil. Smith,
# man of patience and stick-to-it-iveness, who has