Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1908-10-31
Five Hungry Little Ones Go
SupperIess to Bed.
father, HURT, CAN'T WORK
Mother Wants to Help, But Can Get
Nothing to Do.
NEED AID, BUT WON'T ASK IT
Neighbors Did Not Know Of the
Plight Of the Morans, Who
Suffer in Silence.

Five little children. ranging from one
to eleven years of age. are going hungry
in this city.
to be cooling and laughing and kicking
her feet-is feeling a gnawing. weaken
ing pain that will not go away.
The children's clothes have been mend
ed and patched and cut down SO often
that they are not much protection
against the cold that is surely coming.
Their shoes are worn merely for the
sake OF form. for the soles ceased to be
of any use long ago.
They slept last night in a cold house
went to bed without supper. without fire
and with nothing much in the way of
bed clothes.
Tonight there will be thousands Of little
good supper. who will say their prayers
in nice warm nighties at the knees OF
mothers who are happy in the thought
that their children have plenty. But
the five little Moran children will go to
bed colder and even hungrier, perhaps
than last night.
Good Angel Wanted.
Unless some good angel stops at the
grocery store and tells the clerk just
what to send around to Oil 9th street
northwest.
Martin Moran. the father of these little
folk, is a tinsmith and has lived in the
neighborhood long time. His wife and
her people are well known in that Sec
Some time ago the breadwinner was ter
ribly burned on both hands and his back.
He has not been able since to bring in
one cent.
Mrs. Moran helped out. even before her
husband was burned by washing 900
towels a week for the Treasury Depart
ment at a cent apiece. During those
days the little Morans did not know
what a supperless going-to-bed meant
But big laundry company came along
With the fathers accident and the
mothers inability to get any work at
all. the wolf has been bowling at the
door. and clawing and scratching. Now
he is just about ready to walk in and
eat em all up.
Detective Discovers Trouble.
A good-hearted detective who was once
on duty in that section and who called
on the Morans this morning says that
in all their trouble neither father nor
mother has complained to an outsider.
The neighbors have not heard the howls
of the wolf, and did not know he had
so nearly crowded his way in.
The father. helpless for the time. sits
with hands bandaged and remembers that
the surgeon told him 1t would be the
latter part of next month before he can
be at work. And he wonders whether
for him there will be any next month"
The mother knows the despair of see
ing her children suffer for the things
needed to keep breath in body. Yet to
them and to him she presents smiling
face and pleasant word.
She has felt the pain that only a mother
can feel when her littlest child, not yet
weaned. cries for nourishment she cannot
have unless the mother is we'll nour-
ished.
In all their distress the Morans have
not asked for help. Nor have they sought
aid in any way. 1t was with reluctance
that Mrs. Moran consented to allow her
story to be known through The Star.
Finally, she said. IL it would help her
children any to have the facts made
known she would be willing. Meantime
what?