Vermont phÅ“nix. [volume] (Brattleboro, Vt.) 1834-1955, 1891-12-04
THANKSGIVING IN A HOME
What the Fricndless children Found to
Give Thanks for. as Told by Our chi
cago star Correspondent.

what the Fricndless children Found Ia
Give Thanks for. as Told by our chi
cago star Correspondent.
CmcAGo. Nov. y, 1891.
For once ! have seen Chicago streets
looking clean! 1t was early this morning.
and they were covered with a thick coating
Of snow. 1t has showed steadily all day,
and the sleighs of the pleasure-seckers will
soon be skimming merrily along the boule-
wards. TO the poor, however, the snow
comes only as a reminder that the season
of special hardship and privation is upon
them, when the problem of food, fuel and
clothing grows harder to solve than ever.
Inmates of the various reformatory and
benevolent institutions are far better off
than their compeers outside, barring the
restraint to which they are subiected-a re-
straint, by the way, which never becomes
anything but irksome to most of them, be
it cvers slight The morning papers give
glowing accounts Of the bountiiul turkey
dinners served yesterday in all the hospitals
and Homes but there must have been
hundreds Of homes Spelled with a small
"h') where the Thanksgiving dinner was
more scanty than any everyday meal the
Phoenix readers sit down to.
Kind friends remembered the Home for
the Frendless, and we had a very happy
Thanksgiving. All through the previous
day and evening the door-bell rang con-
stantly, and turkey after turkey came in
mot on their own two legs. thought until
we had in all 3S. Then there were pack
ages of nuts, fruit, candy, cakes, and the
like, and once an express wagon drove up,
manned by four lively boys, who an
nOunced that they came from the Mosely
public school, and proceeded to unload bar
rels and boxes of fruit, vegetables and
canned goods. Some persons gave money,
two little sisters sending a dollar, $50 the
children in the Home can have just as good
a dinner as we do
Our children were told that if they had
anything to be thankful for they might
write a letter about it to the superintend-
ent, and at morning prayers Thursday be-
tween 80 and 20 letters were handed in. An
enterpriSing reporter who called at the
Home during the day took number of
the letters away with him, and today they
graced the columns of one of the city dali
lies. Not to be behind him in enterprise
will also give a few as fair samples Of the
Whole:
ann thankful for clothes. health. food and Ri
Bile BERTHE W. aged u.
l am thankful for the Bible. clothes food. a
place tp stay. and matr1n. JoHNNY c., %.
/ am tmnklui for h-I Clothes temperance
pledge, Bib" ami turkey FRANK X. 9.
ana thankful for clothr, Bible aud God.
WILLIE L.. O..
thank the Home for giving me- clothes 20 wear.
and ana thankful for the food have to cat and
for the SHOES ! have and ann thankful for Mrs
how To spell HATTIE H. y.
I'm very thankful for good home warm
clothes, food. a warm bed. I'm very thankful for
Mrs. Lord teaching Us IN school, and for Miss VI
teaching us such pretty Song, and for Miss Mary
taking such good care 0f us. and I'm very thank
fu for the entertainment this evening.
REBECCA ) TO-
Thankful forhome: thankful for clothes; thank
FIJI for food; thankful for school: thankful for
stockings RALPH G.. 10
Thankful for the clothes wear. and the food
We get to eat. and the bed get to sleep in and
the shoes We get to wear and I'm thankful Ia God
for sending me health. and I'm thankful for the
fruit We get to eat joins VI. g.
am thankful for good home aud good food
and kind teachers and warm bed and reading
spelling. geography and numbers and shoes.
LILLE b., O.
am thankful for my clothes and for my bed
and for school and for shoes and for the yard
BERNARD V, TO-
| am thankful to the blessed Lord that can h.
| in this Home and for the kindness shown me by
the ladies of the Home and also the ladies Of the
| Board. Grandma Sunshine" ~.
-NlltlN-lbuI tlllluItll anu ~ duNlllS sal
| down at the first table and Toasted on tur-
| key, cranberry sauce, etc, to their hearts
content. In the evening there was a so.
| cial party gotten up by the older girls, the
| program comprising songs, Rotations
! charades and refreshments. Three of the
| little girls were invited to spend the day
| with lady whose own little daughter had
| during the year gone to that Home where
erery day is day of thanksgiving and
| praise; and our oldest boy, who has for a
year been errand boy in a leading national
bank and was recently promoted to be mes
senger received an invitation to dine witt
| the banks vice PRESIDENT courtesy that
We value as showing that our boy is liked
and trusted by his employers.
As this is a letter of letters, perhaps
! cannot do better than give one more in
| closing, first mentioning, for the benefit OF
some who may not know it, the fact that q
part of the work of this institution is tC
| find homes for orphan children. Evident
| ly there was a vacancy in the home whenc,
this letter came to us.
FLGIN. Ill.
! To the Home Of the FriepdIeSS: / am a littl,
| girl nine years old. and am very lonesome with
| out little sister Without red hair: a pretty lit
! tie girl: young girl, two months old Send
next week Curly hair and one that isn't cross
! Not over ten dollars. Do you hear Shan't tax,
| her or him if over ten dollars. | viii take goo,
! care of her-oitele good care of her or him. q.
pretty one. JESSIE W.