Wichita eagle., 1889-10-11
CEILDREN'S HOME DAY.
A Word With Mothers and Fathers Whose
Homes are Blessed With Sons and
Daughters.

Open your hearts you mothers, in whose
homes this bright morning sweet limo
cence sleeps in peaceful security, you
| whose arms hold in their loving shelter
your own precious babes, your own bright
boys and dear girls. open your hearts to
those other innocent babes, who have no
netherlands to which they can fly when
the clouds Of child-life come over them,
whose poor home holds no father on whose
knees to climb and pour into sympathetic
ears their childish woes and trials; open
your hearts and send something this day
to the Children's Home as a thanksgiving
offering, an acknowledgement to Him
who notes the sparrow's fall that your
babes have another home than charity
home. Open your heart, now father, that
lays proud hand on a dear head and looks
down with a protecting love into a proud
boys trusting face, open your heart this
one day of whole year, and in the name
Of that boy, and of the hope that you may
live to lead him up to mans estate, send,
today, your offering to that home on Penn
sylvanla avenue, whose boys have no
strong fathers hand to sustain them, no
fathers wisdom to council nor to stay
their possibly straying feet. Your sweet
babe, dear mother, your trusting boy, my
father, may never be compelled to seek the
shelter of d charity home their feet may
never be forced to tread the rough and
dangerous paths of this unsympathetic
world alone, but you don'i know. The
hours of a single day, often hold out only for
the strongest and bravest instruments and
agencies Of a complete disaster, but
OF death itself. Open your hearts
young men and young women of
Wichita if only for charity's sake,
and the benediction and blessing
which all unknown to the world or to
even your most intimate companion. will
softly touch your soul; send your mite to
that home of lonesome little ones as a
Thanksgiving that fate kindly ordained it
otherwise for you in this world. But these
are hard times, mayhap comes the answer.
True but all the harder for those Deepen
dent hapless little ones and all the harder
too for those who ask no other reward
than that they may be sustained in their
unselfish work for those human buds
which cling to them.
This donation day" comes but once a
year. and it comes only as little thing,
day its lady patrons ask for sympathy
and prayers. These are well enough per-
haps, but sympathy and prayers wont stop
the hunger of those little ones, nor protect
their tender, motherless bodies from the
cold of the winter now bearing down upon
us. 1.-The largest hearts bend downward,
circling the human race, )" and 1.-THE drying
of a single tear has more honest fame than
the shedding of seas of gore"
The EAGLE never appealed in vain to the
good and noble women of this city. to the
mothers and daughters OF our thousand
and one pure homes, and this appeal is not
the smallest nor the least deserving. The
most of the other charities have churches
or other organizations at their backs, but
there are others that can only look to the
EAGLE Then this is an orphan charity,
and in more sense than one, and if the
east of all the city's charities. not the least
in deserving. In your shopping or calling
rounds today drive around to l19 Penn
sylvania avenue and leave, if not in your
own name, then in the name of sweet
charity something however small, for the
helpless ones for whom we make this
earnest appeal.