Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-23

applied Christianity, opened with a
vocal solo. Miss Noyd, accompanied on
the piano by Mrs. Whitehead, sang
For All Eternity" and responded to
an encore .'Du Liela Fagel," by Skoog.
"The Home in the Tenement" was
a paper written by Mrs. Edwin Baker
but read by Mrs. e. Lee. Mrs. Baker
comparing the tenement houses of our
two large cities, New York and Chi
cago, showed that the condition of the
Chicago tenements was superior to
those of New York because Chicago is
o young city. 1t is estimated there
are $4,000 tenement houses in New
York, the greater part of these being
from five to seven stories high with
room for four families in each story,
but very frequently each floor is
crowded with as many as seventeen
families. The air and light being
furnished thru windows in the sides of
these buildings leaves the larger part
of the rooms unlighted and unyen-
tilated. 1t is true air shafts four
feet wide are sometimes furnished,
but these contain the stove pipes and
afford place for hanging the fam
ly's washing so but little air can en-
ton Of the tenements of New York
average 100000 to the square mile.
The rent on the attics the poorest
places in the tenements, is so high it's
payment deprives the families of all
comforts. Thousands of families are
paying one-fourth of very small in
come for rent. While virtue is the rule
and vice the exception, the condition of
the girls is most deplorable They are
married young and settle down to lot
no brighter or better than that OF their
mothers Schools have been estab-
lished for Little Mothers" in which the
girls are taught how to care for baby,
do plain sewing and cook plain food.
The miserable cooking is respon-
sible for much of the drunkenness
among this class The tenement is the
working peoples only home. OF all the
foreigners dumped into the tenements
of New York the German makes the
most of the life He strives to estab-
lish home.
In talk on the charity organization
of Marshalltown Mrs. Whitehead told of
the work being done for the poor Of our
own city. The report of December, 1901.
shows that more clothing had been do
mated. more families visited and more
children made happy with presents at
Christmas than in any preceding year,
which surely meant an advancement.
Mrs. Whitehead considers there are
two classes of needy-those that simply
are poor andthe paurers. The poor are
those that are willing to work. blu. the.
size of the family, sickness or some 9TH
ar rs TIC ny ntcs on in Or
enough to make them independent. The
organization provides some work for
the mother or children by which they
can pay for clothing or other comforts,
which means the saving Of few dollars
from the income of the bread winner.
at the same time teaching them self
reliance. The other class, undoubtedly
paupers, are those who always are and
always will be asking for help. Mrs.
Whitehead explained the methods Of
disposing of the garments and articles
donated, showing that self respect and
Independence are taught by asking
work in pay for them, but freely aiding
the Sick or aged.
Mrs. Van Hook. now of Chicago, but
recently retained from Persia and Rus
STA, where she was sent as a missionary
by the Presbyterian church, told of
some of the work done among the wom-
en- OF Persia; also of the work being
done in Chicago among the Armenians
One thing of interest was the descrip-
ton of women's club meeting in the
Syrian quarter of Chicago. This club
was organized by these women for the
purpose of lettering their condition and
the club is working a transformation
in their lives.