Evening journal., 1906-11-05
SOME SCHF mes
IN SMOKY CITl

The women's industrial exchange @.
an Episcopal church in Pittsburg, Pa
for many years has given employmen
to aged women of the parish.
The 'grandmothers, as they are call
ed, rarely less than fifty Of them. an
often many more. come to the churl
every Tuesday at which time the OK
change receives and pays for the woi
of the last week and gives out q
new
This work. says Good Housekeepiu
is anything which aged hands can do
plain sewing, knitting, crochetine.
darning, patch work, or even homel
decoctions, such as cough remedies, lin
iments and salves one dollars wort
OF work each week for each one is al.
ways assured and sometimes muci
more
The exchange never lacks for worl,
to give out. It's mission is we'll un-
derstood in the neighborhood.
Busy housekeepers send in thei-
towels ana tablecloths for hemming.
name tapes to be stitched to the col
lese students clothing, small garments
to be made or mended. scraps for an
other patch or two of the quilt under
way, cushions to be covered and num-
berless other little tasks.
Surplus Put to Good Use.
The fee asked is not large. as the ex-
change is not money making insti-
tuition. Any surplus which comes in
its treasury is invested in agron ging-
ham and material for petticoats, and
these are made up when other worl,
is slack, and are later sold.
Some Of these workers find their only
support through this exchange. 9th
ers would be a burden on poverty
stricken relatives but for its help
Others are bed-ridden and pay for their
medical attention through the bit OF
work which is sent to them each week
The womens- guild of a Methodist
church keeps half a dozen sewing ma
chimes busy on Wednesday in the MAX
ing of petticoats on order. Measure
is taken and ft guaranteed. Another
gives all its Wednesdays TO quilt and
comfortable making and still another
TO aprons, nurses aprons and caps. fof
which there is a great demand, beng a
specially
A Baptist church fills any orders, on
a few hours notice, for cake. pies
doughnuts, cookies and the like, and
holds sales of these commodities fire.
quently on Saturdays.
A young womens circle in an Epis-
copal church has compiled n cookbook
with reciFes signed by public women
which has run through several editions
and proved a profitable enterprise.
E.A N.I
A downtown church has served a 15-
cent supper on Wednesday evenings for
mary years. not only for the men Of
the church who are desirous Of remain
ing I'm town for the evening service
but for anyone, shopper or transient
Low as the price is they have made II
pay handsomely.
Each Methodist housekeeper in Pitts
burg is asked every year to set aside
one tumbler jar or can from her pre-
serves for a specific benevolence. The
disbursement is made through deacon
ess nurses to the sick, to the pantries
Of orphanages or needy institutions.
A member Of an Episcopal sister
hood noticed some primary school chill
dren running to school one bitter cold
Aftg anu 0A'llAiiH NNNAg ANAAlAAI ~ INi
up the stockings on their garterless
legs. On the next Wednesday the sis
terhood found its work in the shape OF
garter making.
Last winter hundreds of pairs oi
elastics were sent to the kindergartens
and public schools in the poorer dis
tricts, to be handed out by the teachers
as the need demanded. This same
sisterhood for six years past has paid
the salary of a woman and necessary
assistants 20 battle, once a week. tn,
kindergarten children in poor and
thickly crowded settlement the schoo
furnishing the bathtub and the sister
hood all supplies including much Of the
change Of clothing required by the chill.
dren.