New-York tribune., 1908-08-08
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another little boy has laid down for minute, an
neIes the ticket and gets glass Of milk. and has
half OF il down before the eye OF the Health Pro
tectfve detects him. He drops the glass and fees
TO the street. where stern morality ought TO be
satisfied for some of the milk has gone the wrong
way, and he has terrible fit, choking
THAT is the first time" says the Health Pro
tective that child has tried to get milk dishon-
estIy Some of the children are tricky in other
ways though. We find it best to give the chlioren
exchange tickets to take home TO their mothers 10
show the mothers that they have had the hhA'
else the mothers might say with reason flo" u0
know that the children ooh OoS S0N' N
pickles instead Of milkF
''On the day the luncheon counter "ds ope
the Italian commissioner came in and explained
TO the children, In their own tongue no" heNeS
sarv it is for them to be well fed ana no" Lnucli
better milk for them than candy ana stulL IKE
that 49,, e..
Tho woroan's Health Protective Association mas
haan Investigating the problem Of the unoerIed
children for some time. and would IKE 10 nave
tried the present plan before now our tliefe
difficulties getting permit from Cae 0'0t
Of Education At last. however the board gave It's
,o7ear+ II was nsrtly by the choice Of Miss Evan
carna Whitney head Of the Vacation School De-
partn,ent that Public School 172 was selected loi
the first trial There is plenty CT poverty 'hel C.
hut less has been said about this secuon tii7i'
about the lower East Side, and less mas oeeh oo'7
for il
-rvo other luncheon counters Will be opened i'm
r7e5iatelv one in some West side school and one
on the lower East Side For one month just Nun n
and crackers viii be sold; later, when the Colu
weather comes, there will be hot soups and stews-
That will involve another problem for in the Jew
isb ouar+ers of course all meat must be kosher
The Health Protective Association will carry the
work on for a year, increasing its scope oy de-
grees At the end of the year, the BoaTd OF tou-
cation being willing the work VIII be turned over
70 that body Money for the trial was furnished
NJ
to make the thing selfsupportns. At present the
cbudren's pennies nearly pay for the milk and
crackers but not quite. for some children don :
have anv pennies and such cases they get the
tickets and no one knows they don't pay.
y believe" said a member of the Health Pro
tective Association. that luncheon couhuer Is
needed in every school in this city. Why, even IN
o beautiful big school like that az West End ave
nue. and ed street Investigations have dlscoV-
cred hungry children Of course, they don't come
from West End avenue homes, but from the poorer
homes further off -.
Occasionally clothes are served out at Fuohc
School 172 The children need them The cio'hes
are sent bv people interested in the work. and a
member Of the Health Protective Association VINO
cannot stay in the city to help sent instead money
20 buy shoes for the barefoot
.I try 70 give the shoes out cautiously said
Mrs Mary Trautmann, president OF the Health
Protective Association Yesterday gave pair 70
q girl who was wearing some wretched things on
her feet And the new shoes wouldn't go on pe-
cause her stockings were so dreadful
1--WE got some red stockings at home she told
me. won't you please wait till get those?
an a minute she was back with the red stock
inrs and they were holeless and the shoes went
IN nicely I warned her that she must wear the
sboes-that her mother mustn't cell thern-and To-
day she has been here, lowering around me IKE
moth around candle. that might see tnat she
was wearing those shoes"