Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-02-13
Donations to Be Sent to The
Star Building.
HOW TO HELL THOSE Who SUFFER
Typical Cases of Hunger and Cod
Existing Today
THE WIDESPREAD DISTRESS

To every man, woman and child
in this great city of ours who is well
clad and warmly housed during these
terrible winter days The Evening
Star extends an invitation now to at
tend The Evening Star pound party,
to be. held tomorrow in the Star
building, on the nth street side,
few doors above PENNSYLVANIA ave-
nue..
1t is for the benefit of the poor
men and women and children, with
hearts and hopes like the rest of the
world-the hundreds who today are
starving, who are shivering in their
thin, tattered clothes, who crouch
and cover together in their bare,
frigid shelters.
The Bible says they are always
with us, but too often, with our own
wants well supplied, our hearths
glowing and our loved ones in happy
health gathered around the bountiful
table, we do not hear the cry OF dis
tress or see the wasted arms plead
ingly held out begging, as the poem
says, even three grains OF corn
Therefore The Evening Star issues
this invitation, well knowing from
past experience that its readers in all
homes of the city will be aroused
and will respond. 1t might be a
bushel party or a ton party almost as
well as a pound party-the need is
so great-but if every one responds
whose eye catches this column and
who feels he is his brothers keeper,
at least to the extent of saving
another's life, then there will be
pounds enough to make the bushels
and tons to go around.
What a Pound VIII Do.
Only a pound! II Brown gives one Of
bread and Smith one of meat and Jones
one of potatoes there would be a meal that
will keep four or five alive another day.
BUY a pound of anything your grocer af-
fords: subtract q pound from the many
pounds of groceries you will order for your
household tomorrow; deprive yourself of
pound of anything you need the least, and
bring or send it to the The Evening Star
pound party
The party will be in progress from in
the morning until in the evening-time
for all to send in a pound, and. indeed, to
return home for another to add to The first
gift.
Early in the morning the car conductors,
the carpenters, the plasterers. the express
men, the shop clerks, the department store
youngsters can stop long enough 10 drop
their pounds of potatoes, sugar, tea, coffee,
salt, butter, eggs. meal, -four, meat coal
anything-into the big interior of The Stars
pound party building.
little later the department clerks, the
stock brokers, the bank cashiers, the real
estate men, the typewriter girls, the book
keepers, the host of well-paid, strong
hearted brain-workers can send or bring
their donations.
Then the school children, the society buds,
the matrons on shopping tours, the widows
with their mites" the army OF motherly,
charitable girls and women will find OPP
pOrtunlty 10 Drlng lnclr DOn0ieS OF 1000,
clothing and creature comforts to the pound
party.
The Poor I'm the City.
Washington's poor reach well up into the
thousands-how many no one knows-but
the pound party will provide for all. There
fore you can see that your pound, If only
coal or wood, is an important part Of the
result. Don't be afraid to give.
Suppose this incessant, swirling chilling,
downpour of snoRkeeps up, and you can't
come down town. What then? Don't be
kept from giving-for the pound party will
be with the city tomorrow. Just as surely
as the poor are with us. Ask your kind
hearted grocer or butcher or baker-they
are good always upon such occasions-to
stop by the pound party building on his
way to deliver to you. and he can leave the
donation = even of one single, solitary
pound.
The Star has no means Of calling for do
nations, but urges every one to organize
himself or herself into an amateur commits
sary and ouartermaster's department. and
get the supplies to the front early in the
day.
That's a good simile. Life 10 q battle and