Omaha daily bee., 1899-11-12
CARE OF HOMELESS CHILDREN
Results of Years Work in Omaha Child.
Saving Institute.
MORE THAN ONE HUNDRED GIVEN HOMES
Those Who Remain Are Taught to
Earn Their own Livins-Extensio
Work Outside the Confines of
the Institute is Successful.

The annual report of the man
agement of the Child Saving in
stitute, covering the year ending October 81
last, shows that the work has grown to very
considerable proportions and has been con-
Quoted in an eminently practical manner.
The home has no endowment and depends
for it's support entirely on the generous and
charitably disposed citizens of Omaha. The
results 1t has achieved in the last year are
enough to convince anyone, not only OF the
advisability of the work, but also of the ne
cessity of it's being maintained and enlarged.
Besides the reception of homeless children
and the care of them until permanent homes
are found for them the institute carries on
many other branches of work. The kinder
garten has had an enrolment of seventy
three and an average daily attendance OF
twenty one throughout the year. Twenty
one teachers have been busily employed in
teaching the children how to sew and the
Saturday Afternoon class alone has had an
average attendance of 109 Two classes in
cooking have been conducted--one meeting
Wednesday and Saturday afternoons and the
other every day except Monday The first
has had an average attendance of thirty and
the other an attendance of twenty seven.
Glasses in the gymnasium for boys and girls
have been conducted daily and have had a
full attendance.
The amusements, incidental instruction
and the moral and spiritual education OF the
children have been carefully looked after,
to which ends fairly well equipped library,
series Of stereopticon and musical enter
tainments and regularly organized Sunday
school have accomplished a great deal. The
boys have been taught the wisdom of saving
pennies. Both boys and girls have been
provided with employment in vacation when
eevr possible.
Permanent Homes Are Found.
The largest part of the work Of the in
sthute, however, and probably the most i'm
portant In ultimate results, has been that OF
placing in good permanent homes as many
of the children as possible. One hundred
and forty-six children were brought in dur
ing the year and all but twenty Of these
have been provided for. Five have died and
fifteen are still in the home.
club organizations for boys and girls were
quite well attended during the winter and
mothers meetings wore held from time TO
time. Glasses in arithmetic, shorthand, his
tory and other studies did good work for
boys who could attend neither day nor night
schools. The workers have visited many
homes in the city and have thus done much
to better social conditions and family life,
Cooperating Societies.
The Woman's Christian Temperance union
appropriated s25 per month, except in July
and August, toward the salary of the kinder
garten director, and in addition to this pro-
vided money for the purchase of materials
needed in the cooking school. The union
also conducted mothers meetings and gave
entest ailments and lectures for the purpose
of scientific instruction on the evils of
cigarette smoking and drinking. The AssO-
clated Charities. the Visiting Nurses asso-
citation, the Humane society and the county