The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-06-03
Next Saturday the Big Day In
Topeka.
Association Girls Will
Be Abroad.
THEY NEED THE MONEY
So Be Ready When Tag Is
Pinned On.
Fifty Stations Have Been Es-
tablished in the City.

| According to an edict issued by the
Topeka Provident association Satur-
day, June 6, is Tag day in Topeka,
and the action has been ratified by the
Commercial club and every resident
of the city in whose veins a drop of
charitable blood flows, has given a
hearty amen to the decree. Tag day
is an innovation as far as this city is
concerned but it is the mooe used
in raising funds for similar causes in
many large cities and has proven
wonderfully successful.
In Philadelphia $4,000 was raised In
a single day in this way for sweet
| charity. The citizens of Lincoln, Neb..
| donated $4,000. Atlanta, Ca, citizens
enriched the treasury of the Provi-
| dent association of that city $4,000
| through this plan and Louisville, KY,
| citizens did as well.
The cause is a worthy one and there
is no doubt that the citizens of To-
| peka will do as well proportionately.
1 Every cent of the money received IN
| this way will be given to charity under
| the directions of board or managers
| which has demonstrated its ability to
| handle the affairs of the association
| in a business like manner.
| The Topeka Provident association
| is an institution which has done much
good for suffering humanity since us
| organization less than four years ago
| During the past seven months the
| q association has furnished beds and
meals to the number of 1880 to the
| needy who have applied for assistance
at the Provident building at the corner
| of jackson and Fourth streets. :
| During the past year 2346 garments
have been distributed to the poor OF
| the city; 326 visits have been made
| to the homes of the destitute; forty-
| two patients have been cared Tor py
| their time in the. name of charity;
seventy-five boys have been enrolled
| in the boys club and 103 girls were
enrolled as members of the cooking
| and sewing classes.
| one of the new features which has
been established at the Provident as
| ISOLATION is laundry with facilities
| for washing and ironing inside OF the
building This provides means by
which washerwomen of the city VINO
are encountered with small children
may do family washings and earn
livelihood. The association furnishes
water and gas at half the actual cost
| to these women who bring FANNY
washings to the Provident association
building.
If they have small children they are
taken care of in the nursery depart
ment while the mothers work in the
laundry. This department has pro-
vided means by which many worthy
women have been able to become self
sustaining and support their families.
The records of the institution shows
that 600 washfngs and AIS IronIngs
have been done since this department
was installed a few months ago.
The Tag day campaign as planned
has number of unique features but
promises to get the money needed by
the Provident association to carry on
it's work. The association has no en-
dowment fund and the expenses of the
institution must be met by donations
made by charitable friends and this is
no small matter. 1t costs $4,000 an.
nually to conduct the affairs of the as
ISOLATION and at the present time
there is deficit Of over $1,000.
Next Saturday morning fifty tag
stations will be established in Topeka,
most Of them on Kansas avenue, and
in charge of Topeka matrons who will
direct the work of the station to which
they are assigned. The plans contern-
plated will locate three tag stations
in each block on Kansas avenue and
others will be scattered about the city.
1t will be next to impossible to move
about the city on that day and miss
the tag stations and it will not be
worth while to try. Working under
the directions of the matrons in
charge of the Tag stations will be
three or -FOUR young ladies' to each sta
ton and the guess is that they will be
harder to avoid than the stations
themselves. The wan dering pedestrian
will see bevy of pretty girls bearing
down on him. for they are all hand
some specimens of Kansas woman
hood.
There will be no use to dodge or try
| to get away for no one will be injured
and all that it will cost will be the
| donation that the captive feels able to
give. This will entitle the victim to
release and a red tag which should be
displayed in conspicuous place about
the person. This red tag will guaran-
| tee protection for the remainder Of
the day and costs only what the wear
er cares to give.
Remember, though, in making pay
ment for the red tag that the proceeds
are for sweet charity and that the COM
mittee of young ladies will not be per-
mitted to make change. You know
that you feel that you have been in
tending to do something for the Prov
ident association for a long time and
this will be an opportunity thrust up
on you.
board and will all appear exactly
uous a badge for dollar as you will
for five or ten dollar BILL but your
conscience will tell you whether you
have given as much as you should. If
after you have walked about for an
hour or so you feel that you have
cheated the Provident association and
the poor of the city another red tag
can be purchased and the pricking
conscious relieved by another dona-