New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-12-15

MRS CLARENCE BTRNS'S SUCCESS IN
HER MISSIONARY WORK.

| LITTLE NEGLECTED BABIES or TENEMENT
HOUSE DISTRICTS FOUND TO BE MORE
| INTERESTING THAN PoLITIoS-oB-
jet OF THE MISSION
Mrs Clarence Burns Is now as much interested in
the Little Missionaries Day Nursery at NO. -V'
Avenue &. she previous TO the election III
politics In. tact. she says she thinks TINS Klhh OF
work Is the kind she made for. and that the
little neglected babies OF the tenements are much
more interesting that such rod. hard subject as
| politics Nevertheless. II was the politics that led
TO the nursery, for while going through the tene-
ments in the interests Of honest money the he-
publican women could not fail to find many cases
OF suffering and whenever they could they relieved
thcrr.
Among other things. children were sent 10 the
Nestaald Fresh Air Camp. OF which Miss Sarah
Curry WAS matron and in this way Mrs. Burns be-
came acquainted with Miss Curry. who Is now
ma ron Of the nursery. The idea was MISS curry -
but Mrs Burns has taken upon herself the respon-
siblity carrying 1t out. and whatever Mrs burns
undertakes she generally does
The prnclp,l need IS. OF course. money. and wnen
seen last week by a Tribune reporter Mrs. Burns
had arrived at a solution OF this difficulty.
IL am going down to Wall Street" she said. and
I am going to stay there till get all the money we
need | would Ike to have my intention announced
too that the business men VIII know mat am
coming. and not tnink an liilpoHtoi WITH wv
soc mo | don't anticipate however That any %
them will refuse after have explained the sltuA-
ton TO them and sure none who have money
would hesitate to give IT II they could only see
hos. it'll. half-clothed. sicky children and know
OF the horrible places they live In.
THE OBJECT OF THE WORK
"Hut IT IL not wholly for the sake OF the babies
that | am Interested in the nursery. though that
would be reason enough. | believe that it is only
a.. (nnn .lnfi lon
that anything can be- done for the submerged
would soon be a very different place from what 1t
is at present. and among other things we should
have no Little Mothers
The nursery receives children from two weeks
old and upward. and keeps them all day while
their mothc at work. \ charge or hve cents
afford II. but If she cannot pay the children are
taken for nothing They are bathed In carbolic
water dressed in warm clean clothes. supplied
with nll the milk they can drink and plenty or
GOOD soup and are taught whatever useful things
their baby minds can grasp. -Four little IRON cots
are provided for them TO take their maps in put
Mrs Burns says they need thirty. and that 50
will buy a cot and for child for whole
year.
DONATIONS WELCOMED.
She also SAYS that donations OF provisions. coal
books ,even II somewhat dilapidate,) and clothing
will he thankfully received, and that II people
wishing to make such contributions will Inform her
she will send for them. Her address Is No: 90
West Eighty hfth-st. and all checks should be
81 wish TO say" added Mrs. Burns. that the
last time YOU mentioned my nursery In the IT'D
bundles of clothing. for all OF which every little
bahv loudly crowed his thanks and delight. and