The San Francisco call., 1897-07-25
TENDER LIVES
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Touching Appeal to Chill
dren and Young Women
to Lend a Hand.
e-Cursed Victims Who With
a Little Aid May Breathe
Hopes Glorious Air.
Some of the Eureka society's Far
Reaching Work Which Is Grip
pied for Lack of Funds.

The following extracts from letter
written by one of the Eureka Society for
the Prevention OF Cruelty to Children
contain some heartrendipg evidence of
the necessity for action among the City
fotsam and ietsam. The writer appeals
especially to the sympathies of the young
people who, from the cases cited, may be
induced to stoop down from their spheres
of safety and innocence to help bring
ashore some of the shipwrecked lives
which surround them. The appeal runs:
The cheerful young people of our City have
often peen taxed, and generously donated
their share toward the many calls for ch arity.
The wants Oh the poor man have been sup
piled through the generous and kind public,
to whom now, IN the name of true Christian
charity, we appeal. in benalf of the little chill
dren W mo seek aid at the hands of the Society
for Prevention of Cruelty to Children.
Ye mothers and fathers, whose hearts are
filled with Thanksgiving TO the Creator for
the boundless joys which the possession of
your little dariings fl Il your very souls, think
of cruel parents who desert helpless babes
and, casting them from them, with bitter
curses and pitiless blows, leave them alone
starving and moaning, only to be found by the
officers of this society and saved from cruel
death for the life allotted them upon this
earth.
To you, little ones, whose lips are yet moist
and the echoes of noble fathers blessing
ring as sweetest chimes, reverberating from
every corner of your heart, do l. one OF the
directors of this society, plead with mothers
love for aid.
Send your little mite to keep up this noble
cause. Do not shrink from sending the small
est coin. blessing will follow every cent
you part with.
Let me tell you of a case where an infant of
three months was rescued from drunken
mother at q low lodging-house' on Mission
street. Lying on filthy bed stupid with drink
| the mother of this helpless babe rolled from
side to side, almost crushing this tiny morse OF
humanity, whose pinched, emaciated features,
whose hollow, hungry eyes would draw tears
from the most hardened. This woman was
| arrested for cruelty, but owing to loathsome
disease was sent to the County Hospital in
stead of Jail. The ravages of disease and
drink soon caused Ter death, but the ittls
one provided for by the society now crows
and coos in a comfortable house.
Little ones whose baby sisters lie soft in
their downy cradles picture the helpless in
fants racked with pain, hungry and cold,
whose little hands are stretched out now
pleading for your tender hearts to succor
them. What you give comes from your dear
parents, for you can plead to them in your
own sweet way better than /. Your mite is
their Offering. VIII you beg for it?
Upon the mantel in our office is the photo
pra On of little Willie Buckmaster, Is months
old The child was brought there by his
father Henry Buckmaster. The baby looked
like negro; the injuries inflicted upon his
lace had blackened and bruised his features,