Arizona weekly journal-miner., 1892-06-15
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 One of the saidest phases of child life in New York Is the fate of the Little Motherss among the very poor. You may see them in any of the crowded streets of the tenement house region little girls of eight. ten, even six years. with sharp. care worn fnces. tugging smaller girls and baby boys in their thin. bony arms Their poor little bodiss are bent with the heavy burden, their dwarfed little souls scarcely les de.O .Omed. In such families. where father and mother and all the older children arc wage earners, the little girls too small to be hired in the factories must mind the baby. for there's al ways a baby to mind. In winter the little mother Is usually locked into the dismal rooms that such people call home In summer she wandes about the street with the baby on her shoulder. Some of the east side mothers sit about on the benches in Stnyvosant square. where the smart nursemaids wheel the dainty lace canoyHed chariots of their more for tunate charges.
 A kind hearted lady whooe house fronts the square used to go out among these children questioning them as to why they did not go to school, and if they wouldn't like to go to the country on some of the ex- cursions. and always receiving the same answer. that they couldn't go because thcy had to mind the baby The lady interested herself in the matter, and with the aid of her friends arranged q series of day ex- cursions on Saturdays when the real mothers are usually at home. Five chaperons were employed, who wis ited constantly in the homes. found out the little caretakefs, arranged for some one else to take the charges for the day and accompanied the children to pleasant country places at short distances from the city. But when tho summer was over. and the money raised by voluntary contribu. ton and entertainments was ex- hansted. tho lady opened the base msnt of her own house and invited them in on Saturdays for little les son in sewing, and on Wednesdays for a bit of q good time in games and songs and story telling.
 If you should go to one of these sewing mafinees you would be aston ishcd at tho size of the tiny mothers. some of whom might be called babies themselves They are clad in heterogeneous collection of things. shabby and outgrown by the rest of the family. for the wage earners must be we'll dressed. They begin to sew on washcloth, which, when t is finished, they take home with them. together with a cake of soap and towel. and. be it said to their credit, they make good use of the outfit before they come again. It WIS the purpose of Mrs. Johnston, the founder of the society, and Mrs. Hesna a, her capable associate in the work, to teach the children to sew on garments which should, when fin ished. be given to them. But 50 great has been the need of the little maids that the ladies have fitted them out with clothing as fast as was possible
 The appeal made by these women, who. with few others, have for nearly two years carried on this work, Is for half worn childrens clothing. Some of the responses to this appeal have come in the form of bundles of ragged garments and old shoes that Mrs. Johnston was obliged to pay her ashman to remove New garments are less practicable than those half worn, because parents sometimes sell or pawn them. New York Sun.