The Norfolk Virginian. [volume] (Norfolk, Va.) 186?-189?, 1897-03-23
A GRAND RESCUE WORK
Anniversary Exercises Of: the Florence Crit
tenden Home Held Sunday. 81 !
WHAT TIE HOME HAS ACCOMPLISHED
Interesting Report Of tho President,
lrs. H. ~. Jones Addresses by
4 Several of the Most Eminent or
Sorfolk's Siivincs-Fhe Home Will
He Enlarscd-Ias Finances.

The fourth anniversary Of the Florence
CRITERION Home was celebrated Sunday
AFTERNOON at o'clock in the First Pres
Dyterian church, Rev. DR.. w. S. Lacy
presiding, opening the meeting with a
prayer FOR divine guidance and blessing.
Rcv. Il. w. Webb. in his earnest i'm
prcSsiHe manner, told of some Of his own
experience in rescue work.
Miss Ewell sang THE Mistakes OF My
Life Have Been Many" Mrs r. H.
Jones then read the report of the work
of she Home during the past year as
follows:
MRS. JONES REPORT.
During the past year a kindly Provi-
dence has EracouSly smiled upon the
work and workers al the Home. Last
The building became due by the royal
gifts Of the good people Of our city, we
were enabled to meet it. with the 500
interest and $40 insurance. amounting to
Sl,63O Ehks was 81 great relief as it left
us only responsible for current expenses
III food. clothes shoes, fuel and inciden-
tals. which has made this the easiest
year since the work began. or course
even this was 81 great care, as our family
has ranged from fifteen to twenty all
through the year. There have been
forty-eIght adult admissions to the
home during the year, six little children
have been received for shelter and care
and seven have been born there.
CARE OF CHILDREN.
The mothers of three paid a nominal
board. while they went out TO work. One
was placed there by the father who had
lost his wife and had no relatives to
take It, but being very delicate it soon
passed into the beyond. One or the
others was adopted into q childless
nome and another one was finally taken
into the family where the motheE
worked, on account Of her faithfulness
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the third one was placed With q. friend
where she could be With It ut night
The spirit Of motherlness Is cultivated
in the girls as much as possible, and
when 1t Is possible homes are provided
where they may take their children
with them. Four such have been pro
vided the past year. Twenty girls
have been provided with homes and
most OF them are giving entire salts
faction in Christian families, though
some have fallen by rhc way, giving us
pain and sorrow, while others have
greatly exceeded our highest eXpecta-
tons Of them. There have been eight
dcaths of childrcn-infants-fo dur
ing last summer, though everything was
done TO save them. even to sending
them to the Sanitarium at the Bea cil,
and four Ibis past fall.
The City Physicians to the Poor have
been very attentive but as they had so
large 4 practice it was thought best to
ask one OF our younger physicians to
take charge of the Home work, which
Dr.. Graves very kindly consented to do,
with Drs. Landlord and Southgate
Leigh as consulting physicians, so that
every possible attention has been given
TO th2 sick. and no mother could watch
over as large a family more aSsiduOtlSly
than our good, conscientious Christian
matrcn, who night or day is by them
administering to their wants or soul and
body, often being up all night long
when any one is very ILL., Surely one
more efficient and faithful could not be
found. She Is so tender and patient, SO
gentle and loving, that one is rarely
found low and ungrateful enough to
give her an unkind word. And even
when they become reckless and would
leave the Home they can rarely resist
her pleadings with them and her rea-
soning, or when difficulty arises among
themselves she seems to be able to soon
pat them alone again.
SERVICES Al THE HOME
Regular services are held in the par
lol's every Sunday and Thursday after
moons. On Sundays by members of the
board and on Thursdays the ladies' try
to secure the services of some Of The
ministers in rhe city, who have been
most kind not only in this weekly ser
vice, but in conducting funeral services.
There has been much success in this.
TOO, for nearly every girl sooner or later