The daily morning journal and courier., 1900-12-06
HOME FOR THE FRIENDLESS
ANNUAL MEETING OF THE BO4RD
 OF MANAGERS.
Held Yesterday In Davenport Church ChapeI-ExceIIent Report by the Secre- tary of the Work of the Past Year Officers and Managers for 1901.

The annual meeting of managers Of
 the Home for the Friendless was held yesterday afternoon at 3 o'clock in the chapel of Davenport church. Reports rious committees, and a vote of thanks was given to the United Workers and the NeedleWork Guild for contributions
 of clothing to the home. An interesting repart covering the entire work of the past year was read by the secretary, Mrs Thomas B. Osborne, and was as follows:
 Secretary's Report.
 The Home for the F'liendless shelters
 about fifty people, The size of the fam fly alters little from month to month.
 Many of those helped are admitted for
 periods varying from a few days to a
 few weeks, but their places are soon
 filled by others equally unfortunate, so
 while the few faces change there Is a
 pitiful uniformity in the number of
 cur inmates, The same sad stories are
 repeated by different lips as the quickly
 filled vacancies remind us that for each
 one helped there are many more need-
 ing aid, and looking back over the
 years of work behind us we feel that
 much definite good has been accom-
 plished through the agency of the Home so many have been saved from suf-
 fering and often from lives of sin.
 During this year forty-three persons
 have been admitted to the Home, and forty-six have been dismissed, some, as able to care for themselves, some to other institutions which should more properly assume their permanent care. Two of our inmates have died. Both were aged women, one of whom had
 been an inmate of the Home for thir- teen years. Her refined face and pleas ant manners will be remembered by all who took an interest in our inmates. She thoroughly appreciated her good fortune in being allowed to spend the last years of her life in the Home, ex- cept for which she must have passed a Wretched and comfortless old age.
 The extreme age of many of the wo- men now in the Home increases very greatly our necessary expenditures The care of aged women is on important part of our work, however. and should not be curtailed. We have never yet es- tablished financial requirement for admission. The larger part of our per manent inmates are women who are en-, tirely without resources, who came to us because we are a Home for the Friendless. Each year shows more clearly the imperative need in this city for such Home as ours, which freely admits aged women who do not possess the requirements for eligibility to any other old women's home, and yet are deserving of considerate and tender care
 Eleven young women have been un- der our care in the hope that timely restraint and good influences may work a permanent reformation of and that while each one, while acquiring the domestic skill which shall help her to make her living, may also develope spiritual strength, enab- ling her to lead Christian life of use- fulness The after lives of the young women who go from the Home into the world to earn an honest living are, in nearly every instance a credit to them selves and to our institution. Much of the wrong-doing in the world springs from ignorance or idleness Surely the best way to overcome 1t is by supply ing what is lacking, by giving the in- struction in religious principles and the training of domestic industry which lie at the foundation of all true womanly character This is done, and done most at the Home While en- tirely unsectarian the religious teach ing is very thorough. Many of the ministers of the city visit at the Home md services are regularly conducted here under the direction of the differ 9nt churches. These services are much enjoyed by all the inmates.
 Our nursery holds fifteen children. This number is only exceeded under some urgent temporary necessity. Dur- ng the year we have taken in twenty 'ix children, helping not only these little ,nes, but many a tired and discouraged mother who had appealed unavailingly n every other direction, and would lave been forced to relinquish the GUS. ody of her child to the County Home, we had not taken 1t.
 In the spring the children in the lome had the measles the disease was fortunately of a mild type. This au- umn whooping cough made it's appear | Ince among them, and this also has in | lo" case been severe. Among the old l vomen there are always some i'll l nough to require especial attention, | nd at times we are forced to hire a | Iurse that they may receive suitable | are This is of course a heavy addi- ional expense which we can ill afford. l We wish tha tive might have a fund | provided which would make it prudent | o add a nurse to our household staff. )r. Adams has been most kind and l nOst attentive to the many cases of | lness among the inmates
 There are no changes to report in the omestic changes of the Home Every- hing has run on smoothly throughout he year. Christmas and Thanksgiving yere festal days at the Home. the hristmas tree and the Thanksgivine inner provided by thoughtful friends ave great pleasure to the inmates.
 Donation day was a success in every 'ay proving anew that the change lade two years ago in the date of this nnual event was wise one. The pleas mt weather of the lat spring ensures a Lrge attendance of the friends of the lstitution, who bring their friends. In lis way knowledge of the swork
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