New-York tribune., 1907-11-22
TO BENEFIT AGED.
Pretty Things on Sale Cheap at
Home for old People.

Youth and age are meeting at the Methodist
Episcopal Church Home. at Amsterdam avenue and
93d street. to-day. 1t is the annual affair at that
Home for old people Last year they had a Christ
mas market and made over $4,000. This year they
have a department store. with almost everything
for sale that department store could have. and
hardly any in the Home is too old. too help
less rheumatic to have fashioned something TO
BE- sold from the counters Some OF the spry of
the old people are helping about the booths. and
working with them the girls OF St Margaret )
Circle OF St James Church. These girls are man
aging the lemonade counter the candy counter, the
grocery counter and several others.
Behind the bargain counter which Is pretty
enough attract any woman whether she has the
bargain craze not. is a white haired woman
who has lived in the Home for years with her hus
band. This is OF the very fe,v homes for the
aged which admit both .nch and women. Inc CID
man IN this case Is carpenter who broke down.
but he is still agile enough TO do odd jobs around
the Home and he put up most of the booths for tho
fair His old wife make things. TOO The
pride of her booth is an exquisite pink and white
blanket for a baby carriage, made by her
There is special "od peoples table" Pin
cushors. sofa pillows. dusters-eyerything on It
was made by some old person. Some of the arti-
cles were sent by Bella Cook. the wonderful old
woman who, from her tenement rooms on Second
avcrue where for years she has lain bedridden, is
still able TO send out help to others In one corner
are the long tables of the showcase committee,
which committee is mostly Mrs w. ii. Rogers Any
body who wants 10 get beautiful embroidered CEN
trepeces very cheap will find them here. Back of
these tables any number of rag rugs. the rags
for which sewn by the old people These
sold very cheap 100. III ldtts dll Ilc
prices were fixed with due reference to the panic
What shall 1 mark this?" asked an anxious,
bent old woman of the chairman of the fair, hold
ing up a baby's lace trimmed cap.
Make it cheap" said the chairman, also anx-
iousy. Remember, it's hard times
But if the department store is not a success it
will not be the fault of the ia inmates of the
Home. The inmates have sold over $50 worth OF
tickets the tickets being only 10 cents each Twelve
dollars worth of tickets sold by Charlotte,
who is one of the institutions of the Home. More
than twenty-three years ago Charlotte came 10 the
Home as nurse at SIG month. and since then she
has given her time, her strength and. In spite of
the protests of the managers, often large part
of her SIG to the work Yesterday she came in
beaming
..I've sold lot more tickets she announced.
In this Home forty people who over sew
enty years of age. Some are over eighty, and five
will ninety again Thirty-four bed
ridden and among these there is little lamenting
that they cannot do more for the department store
In one of the upper rooms Rebecca r.. eighty
seven and parafyzed sat among her cushions yes
teYday. Her cramped old hands shook, her head
shook that her words came out in tumble, but
what she said
Il wish ! could be downstairs doln something
for the fair"
well you do do something" broke in another
old woman, almost feeble, but able to creep in
and Rebecca. 1T cheers me up to come an
see you ookn' brave"
In another room sat an old of almost
ninety making elaborate butterfly pincushions for
the fair. The room strewn with sofa cushion
covers which she peced This woman is immense
ly proud of being descendant of an English fam
jIv whose home was a refuge for the Covenanters
in the time when Britain was afflicted by religious
prosecutions
All of the be6ridden who can be moved will be
taken down TO see the department store The fair
will last through to-day and tomorrow and is open
both daytime and evenings. Refreshments are
served in the dining room.