The Washington weekly post. (Washington, D.C.) 1878-1916, 1900-10-23

twelve-yeaE-old Matilda OF two-ysar-ola
Frank annie brought him through tfs
measles and / brought him through the
whoopsnx-cough" Annie IL ten, ana ai-
vides responsibilities with Matilda IN se-
pervising Joe, Fred, Esther, and FRANK.
Matilda goes 10 school one day ana L
go 10 school another" Annie explains,
Our mana goes cut 20 washing every
day and brings washing home al nigh'.
9arah's baby, two years old, does nor
look half its age. Its mama uea
SIX months ago OF consumption. IL enhss
All the time TO Sarah, the gentlest. lleii-
est. faithfullest of little mothers lne
Nout-Iawn teachers made friends Win
the baby. and Sarah got good rest.
This home is supported by people rom
all over the union The proprietor OF tne
Christian Herald gives the use OF the
property Css acres and four buildingsl ana
furnishings. The readers OF the paper
sustain the institution. and take great
interest IN it-some coming from places as
distant as Kansas and Texas 10 WISH II
Helen GsuId's Home.
Woody Crest, Miss Helen Gould's Home
for Children. near Tarrytown, the typicA
private beneficenee of this kind, l. open
the year round. From July to OCTOBER
tots sent by various missions. hospitals
and societies find just the loveliest tiine
IMAGINABLE there, as guests OF the Mill
ionaire hostess. From October 70 july
little convalesceut cIipples are ideaily
cared for during such periods as their
condition requires.
Counting day picnics and weeks faca-
tons, some $3.50 children were entertained
at Bath Beach. L. l.. this summer oy the
Childrens Aid Society. Through various
Hebrew charities, particularly the santa
rum for Hebrew Children, thousands OF
little Israelites and their mothersI are
made happy by boat and rail excursions.
yet so numerous are Jewish children In
New York City that almost every fresh
air charity besides their own lends them
helping hand. BY the George Junior Re
public, at Freeville, the Kensico Farm OF
the Children's Ai6 Society, and the re-
Gently established Gardiner Farm or the
Industrial Aid Society, New York tene-
ment children are benefited in various
ways.
As summer charities close, hundreds OF
devices, educational and social. immedi-
ately go into operation to hold and save
the childish population. As adjuncts 70
the regular public schools and filling
needs which they cannot fill, are the tru-
ant school, the twelve industrial schools
of the American Female Guardian Soci-
ETY., the pioneer child-saving institution
of America, registering some 5000 children
last year: the twenty day and twelve
evening schools o. the Children's Aid So
ciety registering IA. 446 children Zone OF
these has done such good work for ltal-
| lans that the Italian government gives IT
$500 annually, the Five Points House OF
| Industry; numberless schools, classes, and
kindergartens connected with various
churches, missions, and settlements un-
der Protestant, Catholic, Hebrew, and
| Ethical Culture Society jurisdiction. A
an illustration Of how this sort of work
grows, the history of the Gospel Settle
ment may be cited. Opened in the fall oil
| 1897 it has now coo children in weekly at
| tendance upon its clubs and classes, with
so many hundreds more clamoring for ad
mission that the house is about TO be en-.
! larged to twice its present size. Children
have rung the doorbell at midnight and al
dawn. asking: ''Mayn't l join the sewing
CLASP" For children who have to "keeI
| house." mind babies" or work out par
of the time, these various efforts TO pro-
vide opportunities of which they can avail
themselves are boons, no less TO the chill
dren than the public of which they are {
part
The real significance of all this work fol
children is that IL is bringing the rich anC
poor together in way that no other worl
can do. Tenement children living in sum
mer homes under the care OF cultured
missionaries and teachers or as the honor
ed guests of wealthy hosts, begin TO un
derstand the other side of life and TO fal
in sympathy with those who befrient
them; and parents are grateful to thos
whose bread their children break On tn
other hand. the missionary, the teacher
the rich friend, see the tenement side o
IFS question, feel its needs, and labor L
right its wrongs with an intelligence an
devotion that comes upon them as a fir
from heaven when they visit the wretche,
homes of the little children who low
them, who look up into their eyes witt
reyerent trust, and cling to their hand
with perfect faith. Out of labor strike
and all the inharmonies convulsing GU
social system the old promise holds true
"A little child shall lead them"