The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1891-05-12

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MRS f. ] FoSrER-
t Treasurer OF Building Fund
very yS ress o. me
| Sunday evening. MAY %. as follows:
Basiet collection. By cards :. :
SO and S. subscriptions ......-............ Il5 O
| Total. ..............s ID o.
Ten dollars Of the latter paid. the rest can be sent
to Mrs s. ]. Foster al els North Lawrence avenue
THIRD ANNUAL ADDRESS OF THE ''wIcHIrA
cBiLDREN's HOME"
| My friends, it is the old. old story' Yes.
| the record of the past year is much the
same as in other years. From the coed
| Book we read tonight that Jesus placed a
| little child, a helpless child, in the midst
of the disciples. Wonderfully tender was
the humility object lesson for those grown
men. In the year 1883, when strong men
in our busy city were rushing hither and
| thither under the boom excitement, the
same divine hand. we believe, placed s
/ tiny infant in our midst. Some warm
| mother hearts named il the Wichita
! Childreu's Home Tonight we celebrate
| its third birthday, and can truly say, 1T
| is well with the child"
| But its ambitious prociivities are won
| derfully developed for a 5-year-old. Why.
| my friends, it has sheltered and cared for
nearly $50 little homeless ones. the small
est number at any one time under its
! shelter being II, the largest number .,
| the average 20.
| Mothers, what would you think of put
| ting twenty children through their bath
| by means only of a common tub aud car
| rying the water up Night OF
stairs TO the scene of action? What
would you think of nursing them
| through the diseases to which humanity
| is heir, without separate quiet and warm
room for the sick oness What would you
| think of sending them out for play and ex-
ercise, under the broiirg rays of our Kan
sas sun, with neither tree nor shrub to
offer projections. What would you think
| of baking bread enough FOR all those little
hungry mouths. IN a small No. cook
stove? Yet such has beer the case IN our
rented home.
Do you wonder the child is forced into
higher aspirations?
Fathers and mothers before me tonight,
when you planned for the house that was
to be your home, that dearest earthly spot.
did you not find yourselves saying. 1T
shall be so or SO for my boys, my girlst"
! Perhaps they were to occupy but a small
space in the home at first, but as they old
er grew, they would need this and that
convenience. and thus you buildedl Did
there come sad, sad time when there was
transfer to that home above. not made
w
that was sunlight TO your path, to your
world? 1t seems to me, no greater panacea
would there be, Than to help brighten
the lives OF those other children
for whom we care. Little ones from one
month to ii years old that cannot speak.
that cannot plan for themselves. They
are not responsible for their homeless,
friendless, destitute condition; they are
worth saving, and placing in good homes,
where they will be trained TO useful man
and womanhood. Our poet, Whittier has
declared, THAT it is a great thing to own
a little bit of the Lords earth. up to the
heavens" and we, board OF twenty
ladies to whom has been Entrusted the
care Of this infant, wish we might enable
you tosee the need of helping us ''Own a
little bit of the Lords earth" for the
much needed home. Is there not some
one who owns property on East Douglas
avenue or College Hill, who would like to
be relieved of the tax paying upon one or
two acres of ground? a year ago at our
annual meeting we began the distribution
of brick books for new building. These
were placed in every Sunday school in the
county and city, while older friends VOL
unteered assistance. To this we added
donations not otherwise designated, until
we can report tonight the sum of 81, .46.
We fully and gratefully appreciate the
work done by the dear children. The
we do not feel that in this city of interest
ed, warm hearts and abundant real estate,
we ought to put one penny of this
money into lots Surely there must be
some one who will be delighted to grant
this in conveniently and pleasantly To-
Gated part of our city. We mention East
Douglas property because it is accessible
to the Union station and convenient for
the workers.
Not wishing to tax you with long re
ports tonight, we refer you to our annual
reports rendered last Thursday which will
be printed in next Tuesdays EAGLE. We
are an incorporated county institution.
The board of directors meets the first
Thursday afternoon OF each month at the
home to transact business and plan for the
best use of the money committed TO our
care through the county commissioners
and city council. Right here, let me say
the officers OF the board receive no salary,
as some have supposed: but every penny
goes directly to the work for homeless.
destitute children, hand in hand with the
labor of love. Aud could you all visit the
home at 1l9 Penn avenue, as you are In
vited each Friday of each week, and see
the children in their pleasant, well kept
home, comfortably clad, sitting down 10
well prepared meals. carefully instructed
and cared for by our most efficient and
faithful matron. the good mother that she
is, and her assistants, you would be glad
you had ever given dollar, and
given many OF them, "To cause
the lines to fall ito these poor, motherless
ones" in pleasant places. 1t seems, even
now a mystery to some, where these
children are found. And yet we have
neither room nor means to care for half
that ought to be gathered in from the
streets and dens of vice.
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degeneration are full of interest. He
takes minute organism which is found
attached to the hermit crab. IL has a
bean shaped body, with bunch of roots
like processes through which it sucks the
living tissues of the crab. It has left the
free, independent life common TO its
family, and IS living as parasite or
pauDer II loses the characteristics OF
the higher class, and becomes degraded ia
form aud function. Not useing us organs
for self help they one by one have dIsap-
peared until there is left a shapeless mass
and it stands IN nature as type OF
degradation, through parasitisrn:
There is a study in social degradation,
and as in the lower orders, 90 in society,
we have parasitism called pauperism.
They are rot tramps as we know tramps
they are rot poor but paupers.
They are characterised by general
unchastity. and physical depTaylty.
Iicentiousneess causes physcai weak
ness and mental incapacity both IN men and
women; self-help disappears and the para
sites fasten themselves upon society
What can we do / would say: First
check private and indiscrimiuate benevo-
lence, charity so-called. DO not give at
the door, even TO child; but give counsel,
time, money and patience ID better ;ke
evil. IL possible provide work FOR men
and women
Second, let us get hold OF the childrsnl
Those who have given the matter s.Gdy,
declare that IN any OF these degrs led gen
eraiions, the children il rescued from the