The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1895-04-04

many pitfalls in the path of those as
poor and as fair as she, and it is to be
hoped that poverty will be the only
grief the mother will be called upon to
bear
A Jewish family of father, mother
and four children, the oldest child
boy of 10, occupy one small room at
243 East Third South street. The
father is afflicted with rheumatism and
a lung affection, either of which would
totally unfit him for labor The
mother too, is crippled with rheuma-
tism. Their only means of support is
the scanty earnings of the oldest son
clothing store. The county selectmen
have rendered aid to the family on
two or three occasions and small con-
tributions have been made by the
Hebrew Ladies society, but the need
is great. The pittance of rent is in
unfortunate family wonders where the
$3.50 is to come from that will keep a
roof over their heads for another
month.
A thin, wan woman with a puny,
waxen faced infant in her arms told a
pitiful story of lack of work and of
attendant misery. For a year and
half my husband has had only two
months work. she said, land yester-
day he did the first bit OF work he has
done for six months. He made and put
up a shelf and received so cents for IL
He is steady and willing 20 work at
anything but he can't find work.
Every day he looks for work but never
finds it." Meanwhile the battle with
poverty against such odds is being
fought at 21S East Fifth South street
Again at 537 East Fifth South street
is pitiful case. that of a father, hope
lessly afflicted with spinal disease. I'M
able to leave his bed. mother, weak
and worn with anxiety, and six child
rem. And this family is entirely de-
nendent upon charity. The father WAS
a prospector. but, like many another,
he never struck paying dirt
A widow with family of small
children is destitute at 457 West Fifth
North street.
a case that would be laughable were
If not so suggestive Of tragedy is that
of a woman on South State street VINO
was a kind of protege of prominent
family, having been their servant Ior
wears. She married soldier VINO de-
serted her after less than year OF
married life. But the affairs of the
prominent family are at low ebb now
and the woman, left to shift for her-
self is studying astrology and cards.
IF unnnolested in those occult sciences
she will probably soon hang out sign
of Madam Mystic, the WonuerIul Ior-
tune teller" and will make living Tor
herself and child out of the credulity
OF a gullible public
Perhaps the saddest case is that of
respectable but unfortunate family liv-
ing at 724 East Second South street. /
The head of the family is a stone ma
son but has had no employment for |
many months. The mother is sicl1ly |
looking woman, and there are seven
hoar /
no fuel in the house and yet six of the |
children have been i'll during that time !
with the prevalent epidemic. at has /
been such hard winter" the woman
sighed. 81 have never known such a
hard one before. My oldest daughter
has not a change of clothing. Many
is the day we have had nothing but
dry bread to eat. l try to earn a little
by washing but 1 can't find much to
do. The county helped us three or four
times but we can get no more. What
shall we do?'