New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1907-01-20
GETTING AN EDUCATION.

They met his tests satisfactorily. and now the
two are attending evening classes. and good
positions will be found for them when they have
finished the course. Again, while investigating
an ordinary request for relief, the association
CHANGED upon a girl with an unusual GIT l"I
music Her parents We're Well to do once, ana
she had had good instruction. Even after they be
came poor they struggled 10 keep up her lessons
loath TO have her lose what she had gained.
However her father fell sick, and they came 10
a place where there was no money Tor 1000 or
medicine much less lessons The mother came
10 the association for food and medicine. VS.
flor was sent to their home and CHANGED 20 hear
the little girl playing on her violin AS result
arrangements have been made with a music
school whereby her musical education is assured
and the pro- poets are that in a few years she
will be earning her living, and perhaps that OF
her parents, as q teacher of the violin.
Then there was cash girl, earning - week
Her mother asked the Charity Organization So
cietv for IS 10 pay a months rent, and visitor
went to see about II. While talking the visitor
saw an uncommonly pretty hat which the cash
girl had manufactured out of practically moth
ing and II came out that the ambition or her
life was to trim hats for a living. II being eVl-
dent that she had knack in that direction
which, If developed. would bring her much bet
ter wages than she could ever get carrying pun
dies or standing behind a counter, the society
appealed to the Manhattan Trade Schoo ana
now the girl is a member OF the millinery class
there and the school is paying the family the
equivalent of what she earned cash girl.
Not very long ago young fellow was strug-
Cling 10 complete his course in the College Of
the City Of New York. His classmates noticed
and one OF them spoke Of II to visitor Tor
the United Hebrew Charities On some preteXt
or other she went TO his home. Slowly, for they
were proud and reticent. It came out that the
father was an inmate Of home for incurahle
invalids and that all they had to live on was
what the mother earned by peddling, and the
son not very strong, by odd jobs in spare hours
Their hearts were set his graduating and
becoming a teacher. The Hebrew Charities sent
some anonymous milk tickets. They were not
used Then a check. This also was not used
Then the Hebrew Charities gava II up for
time and mother and got along someho"
until his graduation.
Directly after this he seized with a
hemorrhage and the mother, for his sake, con-
serted 20 accept aid. The doctors said that the
boy needed dry air, that IN Arizona he would
almost certainly become strong again. The
mother was persuaded TO accept loan OF 500,
IL being represented to her that her son would
soon be able TO work and pay It back They
went TO Phoenix, Ariz.. where the mother is fol-
lowing her old trade OF peddling, and the son
IS already so much better that he Is teaching a
few private pupils he has found. Now the In
teresting thing about this is that In the whole
affair the Hebrew Charities was an unknown
quantity so far as this mother and son were
concerned, although the Hebrew Charities in
vestigated sufficiently to be assured that II was
q most deserving case. The check, which was
| sent and not used was signed by the society g
cashier whose name was unknown to the
mother and son; and the loan was made by the
connivance OF the boys college club, and he
H supposed Il TO come from his chums there.