New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-11-26
THANKFUL FOR so LITTLE.
Some of the Brave Women Fighting Against
Odds in This City.

Ny dear friend Mrs Fullerton: am sorry TO
have to trouble you ask you n you could help
q little over Thanksgiving. have nothing. The
weather is cold II takes q good deal to keep a
little coal bought every day. and the children are
getting so big they can eat two loaves OF bread a
GAY. Mrs. Fullerton feel ashamed to ask you
II you have a skirt you think would 1T me, as all
J have is the one work and It looks very
bad Mss - gave II 10 two years 90. and II
Is gone 60 cannot hardly wear 81 any longer. Il
does not matter what kind Il s, ! would be so
thankful TO you to get Il. for ] can get my
self bit OF close. matter how try
This is q little Thanksgiving letter that came IN
20 Ms Fullerton. superintendent Of the relief de-
partmeut OF the Association for tn. Improvement
Of the Condition OF the Poor.
There's 3 woman whom I respect said Mrs.
Fullerton. Think OF her going two years. in her
ragged old BIT OF a skirt. and never asking for
other and all the Euperauous dress skirts IN this
big town. Poor souls She's only twenty-eight
years old. I know the sinking OF heart when she
had 70 go on the street IN the same skirt she did
her washing and scrubbing in. She VII have a
good. warm, decent dress skirt for Thanksgiving
any way.
A TENEMENT HEROINE.
q know her well" continued the superintendent
-she is one OF the tenement house heroines. She
Is bringing I'D six children her earnings OF so
q month at washing and scrubbing. She never
asks for a cent unless she has But, you see
TIE children are getting big. they eat two
q
IT takes much 20 keep little coal bought every
day' that no matter how hard she works she
can get herself bit OF close Isn't that sacri-
Gee OF feminine instincts
She told me once that II she were certain OF IS
g week for the rest OF her nfe she would never
ask for another cent OF aid know another
ious moment. I said. Why. Mrs. Blank. % you
mean tell that you could raise six children
OF IS a week.
Indeed. yes said she: Ia raise them all. and
they'd always have enough TO eat They'd not
suffer from the cold and they'd get bit OF school
ing
Seems a pity. doesn't It. in these days Of race
suicide. that q mother Of six should be condemned
20 a life OF constant struggle and anxiety for the
went OF IS a week."
The Association for the Improvement Of the
Condition Of the Poor does send out special lists
OF Thanslg giving dinners but IL takes care that
those Il knows about shall have q little extra on
that day. The lordly turkey is no longer the
typical American bird OF the last week IN Novenn-
Der. Unlike The days when he strutted in every
barnyard and his wild cousins roarned 10 every
wood. he now secludes himself haughtily in the
abOdes q the rich At 30 cents q pound poor
folk cannot have many turkey dinners to-day
The Association FOR the Improvement Of the Condi-
ton Of the Poor cannot even afford 70 send out
many chickens. unless there is q sick one IN the
family. But there is an extra piece Of naeat-corned
oeef or q pot roast, or something else that can be
easily cooked Cranberries are a luxury too but
apples 70 bake. rice for a pudding OF some other
simple dessert goes into the grocer's basket
Those who have known better days have = soft
Spot on Thanksgiving Day in Mrs Fullerton's
heart
Holidays take one back So" she saws
30 there Is q widow, seventy years old and a
osnghter q thirty-hve. who viii get a good dinner
to-oay. They are people Of refinement who knew
better Gays when the husband was alive Now
Oo'h suosist precsriously on what the daughter
can earn making dainty neckwear for moro fortu-
As'e women The daughter Is delicate in health
80 MUCH 50 mat a separation sometimes seems
necessars-the daughter to 20 10 a bosu,tal ,bs
- 70 = rome Tor tbs aged. But SO distressing
y uls thought 70 both OF them thaf no one 80
the heart TO urge IL -- N4-~t Ho ohe mas
men mere Is little OLD English widow o,,,,a
SloIe n ule @orio who stiu manages n sunno-f
1SIs-LI az seNentg-slk- She rents 3 FIVE roore a.
loI 80 arc ieth OUT folr rooms to as MANY as cse
occupy mem Occasionally when fbers e -
empty room she sleeps In T. Put ors3,s r,i,, -.
sleeps ~ the little dark cubbvloie ba VI
hef cooking and washing. She ss . ---o,-S 49,
pendent Old soul who would rsfber So ..-oo
Than ask for good Thanksgiyins, Si-- =. -
VIII get one. nevertheless. ~4i'Ie4' Out BIG
MOTHER AND FOUR LITTLE ONES.
The nrst holiday IN broken bor,. .,.a- 81.
oeath of the breaoVinner always spneal. 70 the
Charitable worker with heart Trber. e s,,o.her
widow. whose husband dice last March re Rad