GIRLS LEARN FINE THINGS
AT STATE TRAINING SCHOOL
Those who have not been down to
the State Training school—that fac
tory from which incorrigible and neg
lected girls are made into young
"omen who become trained and
worth-while citizens of this state—
have missed one of the most thrilling
sights of the Birmingham district.
Little girls, big girls, young girls,
older girls, "no chance” girls all of
these are Injected into a life of pretty
things—of music that is high and
fine—of books that contain entranc
ing stories, and lessons that are cal
culated to make ideals and a broad
education that shall result in a wom
anhood that shall blossom so fair
and so sweetly for this Birmingham
and this state.
Take a trip sometime—most any
day—to this school, which is located
k just out of West End, and your first
' impression will be girls all in crispy
white, stepping lightly and buoyantly j
among the cotta ges-^-glad ness—real
gladness, in their hearts that oppor
tunity now is theirs.
That's the way they fell—and not !
long ago they left an indelible im- j
pression upon the minds of groups of
visitors who went down one evening '
to hear students sing—and to hear
them recite, and to give- an exhibition
of the physical training they receive
—because of their visible grateful
ness for this "chance'' in life. And
one girl has asked, a short time ago,
when her term of remaining at the
training school was finished:
"O, may 1 stay on, anyway? 1
never in my life before had oppor
tunity for an education!”
'Ofttimon? Worth-Whilf.
Speaking testimony for this work,
which thes state has placed Here in
humanitarian, good citizen—building
spirit.
