The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1908-12-22
NEEDED
FOR GOOD CAUSE

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sistance for the Susannah Wesley Home
has been by no means what we hoped
for" said Mrs. Mack, the superintend
emit of the Home for Japanese and Ko
rean Women and Children, on King
street. Gas a matter Of fact, the
financial condition of the home is in
very bad shape at the present time and
our work is growing beyond what we
can do. We have room at the home
for many more women and children,
but we are in the deplorable condition
of having to refuse applications for
/ help because we are not able now to
attend to those we have already under
taken to assist.
"During the year just closing we
have had as inmates of the home for
longer or shorter period seventy-fve
persons, forty-one of these, being chill
dren, while employment has been found
for fifteen of the women who came to
the home as inmates.
owe have in the home at the pres
ent time, besides some women, twenty
four children. OF this number six are
paying at the rate Of $3.50 per month,
two are paying $500 per month, and
| three SO per month The balance are
not able to pay anything for board,
clothing, bedding, school supplies, car
fare to Sunday laundry supplies
and medicines, which have to be fur
nished by the home.
"There are now three workers and
a yard boy, for whom salaries and lv-
inc must he furnished
"All the work for the children, in
Guiding the sewing and laundry work,
is done in the home.
observing japanese women have
been sent to us for protection from the
attacks of brutal husbands by some of
the best families in our city. Others
have been taken in at midnight and
given shelter and protection after be-
ing maltreated, when their friends were
afraid to help them for fear of harm to
themselves.
''The home is now free from indebt-
edness, and belongs to the Women s
Home Missionary Society of the Meth
odist church body. This board fur
nishes 800 per month toward the main
, tenance of the institution and workers,
which includes repairs, insurance, water
and sewer rates, lights and all Incl
dental expenses. To these add that in
cured in the care and keep of the
thirteen children who are able to do
nothing for this purpose, not to men
ton those who are paying only So and
$3.50 per month, and you will have a
] little idea of the difficulty to make
ends meet.
"The object of our home is to pro
tect these helpless women from harm
!. when necessary, to find employment
h for those who are able to 60 out tc
a domestic service; to train those who
wish and need it, for positions az
:, cooks, house servants, nurses or seam
/. stresses, and at the same time to bring
>. them to higher plane of living.
s'Our children we are trying t,
= train up to become good, pure, usefu
d women, giving them the practica
4. training which we feel to be equal.
# important with the moral and spirit
n ual.
. 'Tt is our desire that the children
y who are given to the home, may be
D. when they become women, fitted TO
the work of uplifting and Christian
izing their own people here, or in Ko
rea or Japan.
"The people of Honolulu who ar
s more fortunate than these at this gla'
Christmastime can and should have
part in this work. 1t rests with them
largely, whether it must be decreased
for lack of the necessary means t.
carry it on, or increased and support
ed by their help. Appeals have bee,
made through the press before, am
some have met personal appeals. IL
those who have responded We eXten'
n our thanks TO those who have no
y heretofore lent their aid, we make an
- other appeal, trusting that they ma,
= remember the command, Freely y
n have received, freely give
If Subscriptions toward this much
If needed work may be sent to the AID
vertiser Office or to the superintendent
in charge, Mrs. Meta s. Mack, Ia
II King street. A welcome aid would h
for those wishing to help to take on
each scholarship for one of thes
thirteen children for 1908. Thi
u amounts to $50 per year, or SO pc
g, month.
a "The home is always open to Wis
. itors, and our friends are cspeciall
:, invited to attend our Christmas exe'
"a cises, on Saturday evening next at
u, O'Clock.
is 81 feel that the lack of respons
m to our former appeal for help is du
'' more than anything else to mi
he understanding regarding the Susanna
Wesley Home, thinking probably thf
we shared in the amounts contribute
= to the Japanese and Korean wor
' under Mr.. Wadman. This is a natur'
I error but an error just the sam
Others may have been misled from ii
fact that on the exterior our hon
looks prosperous and concluded thu
II funds for our work were plentiful
also. unfortunately, an error.
~ 81 feel that we are doing a goC
work among the Koreans and Jap
ed nese, work which We could enlart
in its scope in proportion as we won
be able to attend to it, In charitab
rs Honolulu, feel that an appeal for n
by for worthy cause can not be MAJ
in vain when statement of our p
sition is frankly made
,ot RANCH CHANGES HANDS.