The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1895-12-29
q! OTHER Q I MISSIONS.
4 AsaHS lYfo(lrIlk|leadst the United States In The
81 Number of City Charities.
they y ARE TRULY LADIES OF MERCY.
Z h klses1slt ma Accomplished College
.s Graduates who Labor With Re-
go RioHs Fcrver Among the vcrv
9SS POor and work ia Opposite Lines
from tho University Settlements.

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In.briGht and CHEEKY rooms thoroughly
ssSf da1nty and refined I'm their every APP
Bel poinment, and overlooking one of the
n Oldest and most historic churches and
II church-yards in New York, Is located
rs the training school for workers under
n the woman's branch of the New York
lefty. mission.
This school was founded In answer
TO the call for experienced workmen, ana
ITO meet, the need OF many young women
+ from universities and colleges who de
u sirous of consecrating their lives to BET
" terinS the condition of the people OF the
y slums, ale seeking special training. Here
q they have SPECIAL courses In sewing
cooking physical culture. first aid TO
the injured, vocal culture I'm chorus
clnsses, etc, and under the direction of
= experienced missionaries and nures do
e tenement house visiting and assist In
i every sort OF charitable work. And ns
r. the field extends from Fourteenth street
to the battery of this great metropolis. II
b affords exceptional opportunities Tor
practical training. The tuition is free in
II this training school, and only the noml-
nal sum of 500 Il year is charged for
& board.
FOR CHRIST'S SAKE.
The work Of thess young women diff
: fers from the regular college Settle
ment" methods. In that they build who'll
X ~ upon Tie SHTlSllln OASIS. IeS Wv
any amount of practical labor In the
s homes, but rely upon the spiritual work
X for their greatest results
" OF course their best results are with
the children, but even with the older
people they succeed to an extent that is
beyond the most sanguine hope of the
humanitarian of fifty years ago. They
can enumerate many cases where men
have reformed. improved In their con-
ditions and prospects. moved up into
IS al, r. tho. civ. hNt nI
j their old haunts are immediately filled
again by those poor whom We have nj
ways with you
HIGH; BRED INTELLECTUAL WO-
I,found amongst these young women
workers graduates from colleges and
I universities all over the country, some
Z who had taken special courses in Eng
& land and Germany, and one highly edu-
4 Gated Italian, who has learned English,
IS and is taking this training course in or
y der to prepare her to carry on the same
work among the poor In her own be-
& loved italy.
4 10 My card of introduction was to Wes-
d 1eyan young woman, who has been ell
f gagged in the work long enough to have
lit well in hand. AS there was a little
SStfme before the "MOthcr's Meeting
(which she was to conduct, and TO which
< she was to take me, she turned me over
to a young woman, whose remarkable
% ItdatSi pause hI'l Nbtttl.
But seemingly quite unconscious Of her
X personal loneliness and all aFlow with
4 youthful enthusiasm In her work she
4 conducted ma to the baby fold.
A NEW WORK.
This baby fold was brought into be-
ling by case of simple necessity. 1t
E seems one OF these little ones lost It's
/, mother and the father was III and ont
4 of work but didn't want TO give rp his
child altogether, and there was no in
stttution In New York where child
under two could be placed temporarily.
unless Ill., Many parents utterly unable
4 to take care OF their children for time
IL cannot bring themselves to give them
& up ialtogether, so the baby fold Is to tide
them over these times. and when the
child is two years old If the parents are
8 still unable to care for II. it is placed in
4 some one of the institutions Hero In
"a bright sunny room We're eight LITTLE
\ snow white cribs ana several nurses
N tending the helpless little beings Ono
= old nurse sat with baby I'm each arm,
rocking them and singing to them his.
Y tily. ios'
But 1t was soon time to say good byo
20 me ga pies, and be off to the mothers
meeting at one OF the mission churchas
THESE churches nre never closed ond
every day In the week and nearly every
! 1lour IN the day they are in use for some
sspeclai purpose. Kindergartens, sew
y 1pg schools. mothers meetings cbi,
weeks gay ana the
THE CROCHET MAN
AFTER the meeting / was a,,ona1 20
JOIN one of the young women on ,op
S:VlSiting tour. She first tool, mo 70 nna
SOi ner Shut-m" cases. Ii was ono az tha
nnritt1er OF the tenement houses IN
@Wnich the very best was made of ,e,v
I 1neasre means. The one living room, wa
u scrupuiously clean, and made bris,ht
2 with picture cards and here and there =
9EGouch or color. Here we found n 1nnn
VINO until last summer had not been on
+ OF ms home for ninety years but LIE
rally lived in his wheeled chair RhnY.
4 mat1sm has rendered him comnleteiv
nelpless, and the only thing that he on n
( 40 at all now Is to crochet Previous IN
s ms illness he was wood carver. but bic
hands Will no longer hold the tools for
sHucn work. He was bright animated
scheery, very glad to see us, and shove
: me samples of his work with the great
lest Interest
IL. He has pleasant corner by the win
I dow, In which is pretty plant. an,
here year in and year out he sits GRO.
scneIng Tor the support of his family.
a:afghans, shawls. edgings, etc, are his
Leading articles. Then occasionally he
gets an order for lettering which he
does quite prettily. But as the demand
for. crochet work is very Slight, he prob
ably could not manage at all were il n,1t
for those noble women who charge
themselves with securing orders and Isl
posing of work for him. They also
help the industrious wife who is a sort
of hOlSekeaper for tho ,,-l,nJn 49,.