The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-11-16

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Ladies' Relief Society Discusses the New
SOciety-New Orphans Home Needed.
The Ladies' Relief society met yesterday
afternoon in the parlors of the Chamber Of
Commerce. There were about fifty ladies
present, and much interest was mani
tested in the proceedings, owing to a
movement which has been started blythe
Bureau of Charities for the cooperation of
those two organizations with the w. C.. T.
U. in the organization of a State Chill
dren's Aid society. Committees from the
three organizations had conferred, and
Mrs. w. +. Boone, the chairman of the
committee from the Ladies' Relief society,
laid her report before the society, and the
subject was very freely discussed. Finally
by a unanimo US vote the matter was laid
on the table.
The pressing needs of the society were
then taken up and discussed. The
Orphans Home is crowded to overlooking,
now having thirty-eight inmates. A larger
and more centrally located building is an
urgent necessity. During the eight years
of the society's existence its work has
been steadily increasing in proportion to
the city's growth. until it has outgrown
its present quarters. The sentiment pre-
vailed that the time has come for the
society to own a building which may be a
credit TO the city and state as we'll, and
for the purpose of getting estimates on
grounds and buildings, etc., the following
committee was appointed: Mrs. Bailey
Gatzert, Mrs. Belle Is. Haines and Mrs.
A. b. Stewart.
The question of free kindergartens was
discussed with great vigor, and every
member was enthusiastically in favor Of
them. The need of such places where
waits, street urchins, and little children
with rough, Incorporate parents night
for a few hours every day come under the
spell of brighter and better influences was
generally admitted, as the good in such
children is thus brought to the surface and
developed, and some of the joys of child
hood can thereby enter their little lives.
1t was determined to undertake the estab-
lishment Of some OF these institutions, To
be endowed and thereby made permanent,
and the following ladies were appointed n
committee to undertake the task: Mrs.
John Collins. Mrs. W. Z. Boone, Mrs. H.
4. Shields. Mrs. s. Aronson, Mrs. Jerome
Catiin. Mrs. f. III. Osgood, Mrs. T. w.
Prosch, Mrs. r. II. Lindsay. Mrs. Charles
Shepard.
The matter Of the Thanksgiving collec-
ton was then discussed. The Ladies'
Relief Society performs the noble work in
which it is engaged quietly and without
ostentation, and only once year appears
before the citizens of Seattle asking for
their donations. At the THANKSGIVING
time. when the tables of the more fortunate
are loaded with good things. the society
asks that the orphans and the poor of the
city may be remem bered. For this pur-
pose 1t was decided TO distribute paper
sacks among the schools and business
houses and oil individuals wishing to
assist in such n benevolent work, and
every one is invited 10 give something, no
matter how small. The feature of
this annual collection for the poor has
hitherto been the contributions obtained
bv the children of the schools. and many
poor family has thus found comfort in
its distress by the gifts Of the little chit
dren. The following ladies' were appointed
AS the committee on distribution OF the
bags: Mrs. K. II. Lindsay, Miss Shum-
way. Mrs W. :. Fulton, Mrs. q. ".
Roardman, Mrs. Gottstein, Mrs. A. Din
kelspiel, Mrs. William Kierski. Mrs. j. +.
EShelman