The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-03-14
ANACONDA NEWS.
HOMES FOR CHILDREN
superintendent Miss Dowden in
the City on Worthy Mission.
ADDRESSES IN CHURCHES
Large Congregations Listen to the Re-
marks of the Lady, Whose Aim
Is to Benefit Mankind-Work
of Organization.

Miss Isadora f. S. Dowden of Hell
ena, state superintendent of the Mon
tana Children's Home society, delivered
two addresses yesterday, one in the
M. r. church in the morning and an
other in the Presbyterian church in the
evening. At both large congregations
listened attentively to her splendid re-
marks. The lady is in the city in the
interest of the society of which she is
the head, and will organize a local adj
yisory board, and incidentally look
about for children who are in need of
homes, also to inquire whether persons
are DESTROYS of adopting children, and
will solicit funds for carrying on the
work already begun. Three children
taken from this city have been pro-
vided with comfortable homes in Hell
eHa by the society, and seven others in
need of homes have been reported to
Miss DoWden since she arrived here.
Miss DoWden's addresses We're MAIN
ly an outline of the work of the society,
its benefits. aims and desires. She also
quoted statistics showing the condition.
financially and otherwise, of the So
ciety. She will be here for about 10
days and will address meeting at the
Baptist church next Sunday morning
and in the evening at the Episcopal
church.
The Montana Children's Home society
10 10 TIE national InlidfenS
Home society. 1t was organized Oct. 81,
1896, and incorporated Jan. is, 1897. The
office and receiving home is at No. 73S
Eighth street, Helena. The officers and
directors of the state board of mana
gers OF the society are: President, j. X.
Toole: secretary, J. A. Doughty; treas
urer, HI. c.. Arnold: legal counsellor,
Massena Billiard; state superintendent
Isadora Z. S. Dowden.
J. G. Davidson and Rev. G. w. Healy
of this city are vice presidents of the
society.
The mission of the society is to seek
homeless, neglected and destitute chill
dren and become their friend and pro-
tector, to find homes for them in intelli-
gent, Christian families, and to place
them there wisely, with the least posi-
BILE delay; to look occasionally, with dis
creton, into the homes of all children
placed by US, and thus prevent abuse
and neglect: to replace children when
necessary: to make 1t possible for many
persons (without children of their OWN
to adopt, without fear of future inter-
ference. a child that may be a blessing
to the household; to minister in comfort
ing assurances to parents dying in
fear of leaving their children penniless
and homeless; to protect society from it's
enemies, ignorance, vice and crime by
guaranteeing Christian home training
and education to neglected and exposed
children who must otherwise grow up
to swell the ranks of the dangerous
classes; to improve American citizen
ship by helping the poorest and feeblest
to become valuable members of society:
to perpetuate and spread the work of
Him who is pre-eminently the childrens
friends, and whose life was spent in
deeds OF love and mercy
the Montana Children's Home society
seeks to keep in touch with the organ
lied charities of the state and with city
and county officials throughout the
state with a view of getting legal con-
troll of dependent orphans and any ex-
posed children not otherwise provided
for, and placing them IN carefully Sc
lected homes that are waiting for them.
Its agents canvass city and state to find
both the homeless child and the child
less home, that they both may be bless
ed by the child being placed in the
home.
1t substitutes home finding for home
founding, recognizing the Christian
family home as the ideal place for the
child, and the placing-out system as a
vast saving to the charitable public, in
that it relieves the public of the con-
tinued support of the child in an insti-
tuition.
J 1t is a benevolent, non-sectarian, nom
partisan humane society. 1t receives
homeless and orphan children. It
cleanses clothes, provides for and places
in well-selected family homes, super
yises and looks after their welfare until
maturity. 1t is "A work of charity and
humanity, supported wholly by volun-
fary contributions, finding the homeless
child and the childless home and bring
ing them together.