Morning journal and courier., 1886-01-09
A WORTHY ORJECT.

The Annual Donation Visit of the Home for the FrfendIess Held | Yesterday-Funds Needed for a New Building.
 On the corner of Clinton avenue and Pine street, Fair Haven, is a large three-story wooden house in the midst of large lot, and over the front door of this house in large gilt l letters are the words: ''Home for the Friend less." Yesterday afternoon between and 5 o'clock was held the annual 'fdonation visit'' of the institution, and long before o'clock the large table in the parlor was covered with dry goods, groceries, fancy articles and such like, among them being three clocks and a sewing machine, the latter being from the ladies of the Dwight Place church, and goods still kept coming, while nearly $100 in money had been donated. The halls and rooms of the Home were crowded with ladies who moved about here and there looking over the different rooms. In the dining room three tables were set with good things for the children at the Home, who were to par take of them later on during the festival oo- casion. In the nursery, which is in the rear of the kitchen and at the back of the house, fifteen neat and healthy looking children,
  the others ranging from four to seven years, were playing, and all had smiling faces and were very ready to answer questions when put to them by the visitors. These children were looked after by three of the inmates of the Home, among them being two mothers of three of the children. There are seventeen children i'll the Home; but two go to school during the day. Most of the chil- dren have at least one parent, and have their father mother. case may be- leaving them where they will be cared for while they go out to do days work. Among one of the prettiest little
 boys is Johnnie Harris, boy about three
 years old, whose mother put him into the
 Home and then deserted him, and there
 are many who would adopt the
 child did the law allow it. One
 brother and sister in the Home
 have an insane mother. On the second floor
 of the building are the matron's room, the
 hospital room, the children's dormitory and
 fourteen small bed rooms, one for each of the
 older inmates of the Home. On the third floor are more bedrooms and in these stay
 the older ladies, inmates of the Home, among whom is one that is blind, another
 has softening of the brain, another is lame and still another has consumption; but those
 that are able do most of the work about the
 Home The Home is kept in very neat and
 tidy manner, is well warmed by several large stoves, and the matron deserves much praise
 for the excellent manner in which the
 work is done. After the visitors had in
 spected the Home the old ladies were called into the rear parlor with the children and each of them was presented with gift, after which the other articles were turned over to
 the matron to distribute among the inmates as they may be needed by them. The great need is for more funds that separate home
 may be built for old women who are penni- loss and who dislike very much to go to the almshouse. Such building would be
 home for them during their old age.
 The great object of the Home, which has been established eighteen years, is to provide a temporary home for friendless and home less women and girls, who, from necessity crime, have no other refuge, and to give them employment and instruction, with the ultimate design of providing for them more permanent situation, or eff fitting them to maintain themselves. Also to provide home for infants and small children, with or without their mothers.