Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1904-07-16

home last summer who fell down one day,
nearly biting her tongue through. She
came sobbing to the dispensary with a re-
quest to ''tie a rag round it, please, and
put on some vaseline."
Another little girl whose wounded finger
had been healed, brought the nurse a penny,
saying:
7 haven't got any more, but want you
to have this"
She was told that there was no payment
required. but she insisted:
II want to give 1t to you. Please take ii,
nurse and let me feel good inside.
Have Plenty to Do.
Precious little rascals they are, too. some
times. The nurses and matrons who have
to manage them find that their jobs are
not sinecures.
Take. for example, one family Of terrible
infants who achieved fame at a certain
seaside home last summer. Gertie was six
years old, Jennie nine and Amy eleven,
"goin' on twelve" They had created SO
much trouble in their tenement house that
the landlord offered their hard working,
widowed mother a half months rent to
move, land 1 must admit" said one of the
nurses, there were times in the two weeks
of their stay when any amount of money
would have seemed to me we'll spent which
could have induced them to find another
roof
Gertie was an amiable child. but was con-
stantly worrying her guardians by getting
into accidents. The ceiling fell on her just
before she came down to the home, and
she also fell out of a second story window,
but, as her sister said. "nothin' hurts her"
Jennie dreadful child" said the
kindergartener at the home. She was
round-shouldered, with an ugly leer on her
face made worse by protrudng teeth. two
of which were broken off leaving sharp
points. her weapons of defense. She bit
any child who crossed her, and bit until the
blood came 1 seemed to accomplish moth
ing with her; she appeared lawless to the
end
Amy said to me, 4 never bite; fight
and fight she did until some remedy other
than punishment had to be found. At last
l gave her a large red satin bow. which
she was to wear pinned on her shoulder as
long as she was good and didn't cuss, as
Jennie said. 1t came off twice only.
Poor Amy's History.
Amy herself. like her sister, had lived
through a series of accidents. She said,
First cut me chin falling off a table, then
broke me collarbone falling off a chair, and
broke both legs falling downstairs. Me
brother chased me to throw brick at me,
and / fell and broke TOOTH
But she had a generous soul. poor little
girl. When she left the home she made
me promise to visit her at her tenement
in the city during the winter. She said
size would save up her pennies TO treat me
In the Ice cream saloon on the corner
knowing her mothers extreme poverty, l
asked her how she got her pennies. and she
told me she earned them by building fires
for Jewish ladies at three cents a fire
She would cheerfully get up on cold and
dark mornings and do this unpleasant work
Just for the sake of getting ten cents to
buy ice cream for the woman who had been
kind to her. And she was only child of
eleven
Generosity and a readiness to help others,
however are virtues commonly cultivated
in the slums, and the children soon acquire
them, along with lot OF less desirable
,t,.1 Cd,
body who comes into close touch with
fresh-air charities becomes familiar with
this common generosity of the poor. At
seaside home last year the boys, nearly all
of whom were under twelve, got up two
ball teams representing Yale and Princeton.
Princeton won most of the games, but the
Yale captain showed his generous spirit
by chopping wood for several days, at a
penny bag until he had earned enough
money to buy the captain of the other side
a Princeton pin.
Have All They Can Do.
Some of the mothers who come down to
the seaside and country homes, weak,
tired, ill-nourished, overworked, are SO
Numbered up with children" as ono of
them said that it Is difficult to imagine
keep their homes together. Yet many of
them have to earn a living for the family
as well.
Take for example the '"Triplet" family,
so nicknamed by the nurses of a seaside
home because the mother had borne trip
let's One died, and now, as she explained