The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1895-05-08

| tell the future OF the children who go
from our home, or who shall dare TO
limit the influence for good or evil
which shall be exerted by each and
every one of them? While 1t may not
be true that every urchin IN our streets
Is United States president in en-
bryo, still il is true that the posibili-
ties for greatness and goodness mapp-
ed up in the lives of our boys and girls.
are not TO be measured by us. Places
Of high honor do not come to all. but
every true, pure life is well spring or
power for good in the world. Orren
Meredith was inspired when he said:
"'No life can be pure In Its purpose
and strong in its strife And all life
not be purer and stronger thereby
Therefore, dear co-laborers, let US
not be weary in we'll doing, though to
our finite eyes the results may some
times seem small. These boys and
girls placed in our core shall some day,
if spared. grow to be men and women,
who shall have their place in the world,
and the sort of influence they shall ex-
ert shall be largely governed by the
training received in childhood. During
the year just ended sixty three child
rem have been cared for by the home.
OF these twenty-three have been placed
in desirable homes twenty-three have
ben rcalld by friends and seventeen
are now in the home.
I'VE have been greatly biest in that
not a single death has occurred in our
family during the year, and but very
little serious illness. We feel that
the latter has been largely due to the e.,
cellent care given the children by our
faithful matron, also to her untiring
watchfulness in the matters OF proper
ventila ton, cleanliness and wholesome
food. Regular habits, plain food, pure
air with plenty OF water and soap
make drug bills small.
1.-The year has brought the usual
changes in the condition Of the Home
family New Corners have been well
coined and trained to the Home life;
others have been fitted out and sent
into other homes to bring joy to the
empty hearts. Thanksgiving brought
its usual bountiful donation from the
devoted school children, which supplied
many a need and did much to lessen
the grocery bills through the winter
At Christmas time the children We're
again remembered by their good friend
Mr.. Culp, who presented them with q
fine tree. on which Mrs. Craig arraign-
ed the little remembranceS kindly sent
by the friends of the little ones. A
bounteous dinner with turkey and all
its accomplishments crowned the day
making it indeed merry Christmas"
In spite of the woful cry of hard times,
the Home has managed to pay its bills.
keep out of debt and retain the little
nest-egg in the bank known as the
building fund. Sometimes when it
was unable to meet its obligations to
us, and we could not get our county
orders cashed we had to trim our sails
very closely, and have even borrowed
from the bank deposit. But this has
been carefully replaced, so now we
have 5000 still on deposit. ready for
the rainy day, or to be used for needed
repairs or improvements. Through the
able efforts of Senator O'Bryan and
Representa- tives Eckstien and Rhor-
baugh a state appropriation of $500
for the next two years has been Sc
cured. For this we feel very grateful
indeed. as ii places US upon a better
financial basis than we have ever
known before. But with this increase