The times. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1890-1903, 1890-11-23
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cost them for board ali through the
heated term, when they might have
been earning $50 or S25 week a
much easier work. They made from
sixty to seventy visits week from
house 10 house. IL they found a pa
tient destitute, as they frequently did
without even sheets upon the bed
they hurried back to the mission
and procured them where the cir
Giles of Kings Daughters had prepared
them. III they needed the nourishine
food required by the sick, that, too, was
found at the mission provided by the
diet kitchens and the King s Daughters
Medicine or necessities of immediate
need they were authorized to procure
at the nearest shop at the expense. al
ways, of the Kings Daughters. The
distress that confronted the committee
was from the first heartrending, the
IerplexIties overwhelming. The order
TO the nurses was always to supply i'm
mediate need. Later the case was in
vestigated, and, If deserving, the kindly
help was extended until IL was nc
longer required.
Among the many instances illustra-
tive of the work accomplished may be
given that of case in which the physi-
ciar reported "a family starving in east
Porty-fourth street." and forgot to
give the number, Before 1T could be
obtained the child starved to death, and
the nurse, when sac arrived, met the
father with the little body laid on a
bed of straw in an old orange box, bear
ing it in his arms to be buried in Pot
ter's field. The mother was maniac
from grief and starvation. Even the
dainty food the nurse brought could
not be retained by the starving woman
but finally, when. through care and
nursing her stomach could be induced
to take food, her reason returned.
in another family where death came
to the relief of destitute children it was
found that the father had been out of
work through his inability to obtain
funds TO carry on the only kind of
work he could do. After investigating
the case the society decided to loan him
fifteen dollars, with which he bought a
fruit car. AT the end of the first month
he paid a small amount on the debt
and started fruit stall. So in small
payments the debt is gradually being
liquidated, and one more family ceases
to be burden on the public.
In "Hell's Kitchen" the friendly Wis
itor found, after climbing over two
drunken men on the stairs. woman so
beaten by her husband as TO be unable
to work. and with her four children
entirely destitute. The husband is now
on the Island, the woman living in
rooms provided by the society, one of
the children in the box factory, the
others in school. the woman herself
supplied with work, and the place as
neat as wax.
In their summer work the King s
Daughters have found many cases of
sick or elderly people which they re-
quest other circles to assume the care of
until death shall come to their relief,
and as a means of farthering their
work they hope to establish perma-
nent home for the mission, with day
nurseries, kindergartens, a diet kitch-
en-, and loan Office where all man.
ner of possible need which so often lies
outside the sphere Of charities already
established msy be relieved.
Quite Independent CT the work of the
general committee, though directly in
line with it, is the project Of the Silver
Cross Circle of Kings Daughters, who
are raising funds to build or lease a
modern tenement house. with scale of
prices for ITS rooms adjustable TO the
resources of the family breadwinners.
The feeble and aged. widows with
children to support, wives with sick
husbsnds,. and all those struggling
along with little to earn and many to
keep. will have always the preference.
In the basement of the prospective
house it is proposed to store supplies
bought in large quantities and retailed
to the families aU the same rates and
with credit given in time of sickness or
when out of work.
Like many great projects, this has
but a small beginning. Three women
at first .afterward seven, united in cir
Gle of Kings Daughters, with this pur-
pose in view. The circle has increased
to seventy members, with Mrs. E. 1.
Gillespie as president. The fret $1,000
toward the building of the house has
been secured, and work is constantly
going on toward raising the desired
amount. A coal club has heen estab-
llshed by one of the members, who
buys coal in quantities and gives the
people orders by which small amounts
may be delivered at the same price.
Two of the members buy tea in large
packages and kindly spend the time to
weigh it out themselves to sell in small
amounts. Rooms have been rented also
and sublet to needy and deserving peo-
pie, and kindly help is given wherever
it is possible, both in the line CT person
al ministratIon and practical charity.
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