Children learn Home keeping Arts in miniature house of their very own Submitted by NOVA March 2007 Paper Unknown date is unknown but June was born abt 1922 and is 5 in the article. Picture of Article http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/newspaper/0481.jpg ************************************************ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://usgwarchives.net/la/lafiles.htm ************************************************ Children learn Home keeping Arts in miniature house of their very own New Orleans Louisiana - December 11 Home is the heart of things and children should be trained in making of Home a happy, Pleasant place from their earliest toddling years, believes two New Orleans parents. Responsibilities can not start too early, they think, so they've built their two children a miniature home of their own, and put them in charge of it. Miss June Schroeder, aged 5, and Master Billy Schroeder, aged nearly 2, have “set up housekeeping.” their mansion in miniature adjoins the residence of Papa and Mamma - Mr. and Mrs. William Schroeder. “if home is in a happy and pleasant, life is a failure, no matter how successful you are and other lines,” says Schroeder. So she has started to train her children early, in their own home. Such a training it is. Everything in the miniature home is baby size. There's a drawing room with its Baby sized furniture and baby size phonograph - a room complete with curtains, rugs and pictures. There's a pair of tiny bedrooms with connecting bath between, a kitchen with complete fittings in miniature, and a tiny electric stove on which June can cook simple dishes she has already returned to prepare. A dining room is completely furnished. It's the home of the Little Bear in the fairy tale and big and little and middle size bears all over again. And there June and Billy live under mother's supervision. There is a passageway in the rear connecting the two homes. Throughout that passage comes Mother Schroeder to make inspections and to teach lessons of homemaking. But at night when June and Billy have tucked themselves away in the tiny beds, back through the passage goes Mother Schroeder. And in the early morning, June, waking up, takes the milk from the tiny refrigerator, heats it on the little electric stove, slices bread and butter is and prepares breakfast for herself and Billy. And June makes a game of washing the dishes. When June and Billy grow up, they will know how to make a home. *From the 1930 census William A Schroeder Sr Head born abt 1896 Contractor for Plumbing Company Pearl Gainey(?) wife born abt 1899 June Schroeder dau born abt 1922 William A Schroeder Jr son born abt 1924 Grace Schroeder dau born abt 1925 Frederick Schroeder son born abt 1928 *From the Birth Index Parents Frederick L Schroeder and Hester Pete Child 1 William Schroeder born 09-10-1896 109/7 Child 2 Clara Ethel Schroeder born 03-13-1899 115/311 *From Greenwood Cemetery Files Salvadore A Liberto 1889 - 1978 Fred L Schroeder 1928 - 1981 Jacob Michael Schroeder 01/09/1985 - 03/24/1985 Pearl Gainey Schroeder 1899 - 1985 Ethel S Liberto 1899 - 1988 Frederick L Schroeder 03/08/1875 - 05/29/1929 Grace Schroeder 12/23/1925 - 12/02/1934 William A Schroeder 09/10/1896 - 11/14/1948 Hester Pete Schroeder 1876 - 1957 Robert W Schroeder 1945 - 1958 Greenwood Tet File http://files.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemeteries/green/00000168.txt Greenwood Pic File http://www.usgwarchives.net/la/orleans/cemetery/greenwood/00000168.jpg