The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1897-01-20
sECRETARY's REPORT.


At this season we are accustomed to
take a retrospect of the past, and look
inquiringy into the unknown and uncer-
tain future. We have rounded out our
twenty-five years of life, as an organiza-
ton. The new year has already begun us
onward course. There is probably no IN
stitution among all those which are MAIN
tanned in Scranton today better known or
more endeured to the hearts of the peO-
pie than the Home for Frendless Women
ana Children. The adoption of the word
Home" by our predecessors has proven
no misnomer, for all who are familiar
with the life within its walls realize how
! well the name has been lived up to and
| also how natural it seems that the one
| place for which most people have latent
| love has become a familiar one in that
| connection.
The spirit of home life that now per-
| vades our institution is largely due to the
| mot herlinesS of the matron, the gentle,
| unobtrusive work of her sister, combined
with the careful administration of the
chief manager. 1t is a pleasure to record
their good work, so modestly and faith
| fully performed.
since our last annual report there have
been admitted thirty-two boys, thirty
three girls and thirteen women. This
number includes five who were sent TO
The Home for temporary shelter and re-
| hdlheu 'Hclt pul p'let 'Iiile'
'i'iS o'le uea'l oC'u' V"t't5
year. lhat Oh an ii'l"h' Sirh zen Hhoilll9
old, on July 26. There have been three
children indentured to the home and four
| ndentured by the home to families.
There are, as usual, quite number Of
| children in homes, which there is every
| reason 10 pelltVe wiz oc PEI Indlt"'' lnrIc
| are many aPPllCdlloi's lO' i'll"Hl'' HOm y"
nd civ
| thelr very simplicity ana sincerity tou'h-
me III lhe GM.reih'' Cl'' irIeI,'H IeIell -,
from d chlluIeSs coupe an" W"ose lc4ueSI
we We're uhaple TO grant asks II we nave
an orpha" p"pS poS rom : u iilo"ln9
olu' saving lilal SutH 'n''u "pu'" SCI a'e
sood conn lortaple nome anu IoNH'
rather ana hlotmer' ana inns Is put one
OF many OF s,ih'Iat tHu'at'er' AZ noilloS
are uuly inquired mo pS our l",thl" ~
NesuSatlhS committee pul we SeluoIl li'i
that unworthy persons desire TO pr pur'
dehed with helples9 l"l"h" ai'houEh u
sometimes the MONIES are very huillp'e
ones ..,
CARING foit lNfANl9'
Several infants have gone from our care
during the wear and are now blessed
hsbts in honnv homes II half seems as if
Mrs CrailL must have been at one of our
, executive sessions when she wrote:
, "a hahv without n mother a woman
without a child.
Tool;ed into each others faces while thair
guardian angel smiled"
The causes that bring children to the
home are greatly observation-disclosures
= n,other's illness especially if she be The
bread winner. leaves her children TO IN,
care of strangers In one instance ~
brigbt little bovs were admitted durina
tbe insanity of their mother Ouite often
tha mother,s death leaves a father. win
family of little ones. and there really
seems M more helpIess individual in IN,
world temporariIy. than n very moor man
without near relatives bereft of the
mother oi ms ClL''uler' tti Nore man oiic'
in jail, or mother depraVed' chldren sem
by chief OF police or sometimes by the
agent OF the Associated Chafltes.
Since our last report almost as many
children have gone out from the nome as
have been received, so that while the
! family remains about the same in mum
l bers its members are constantly chang
, ing. \ letter from lady who has one o.
q our boys wrote our chlei manager: M
5 often speaks of his lie at the nome, al
= ways kindly, with "A true realization of IL
| benefit to him, yet seems TO be very an
| NouS to so conduct himselt that he he
! not returned TO 1t, lie says, IT Is such {
nice place, but there are others needing Il
come there all the time, ana when ont
T. goes out, the place Is hlled again rish
= aWaV,'' - And that explains the condition