Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-08-22

Wiseman, pastor of the colored Lutheran
Church of Our Redeemer. vice chairman:
William Walker of the Nineteenth Street
Church.. John Ruffin, deacon of the
Metropolitan Baptist Church. and one
other, whose name I am not at liberty to
announce just yet.
These trustees will exercise super
yiSory care over our work. They elected
me general superintendent and financial
agent, with power to pursue my work
formerly. 1 have selected an auxiliary
board, which now numbers twenty men,
bers. 1t will later be increased to one
hundred. 1t is our purpose to go from
church to church, hold mass meetings.
explain our work and endeavor to raise
funds for carrying 1t on.
I'VE have already been promised by
some good white friends $500 toward our
new home. 1 have collected personally
about $500. in addition to what was neces-
sary to carry on the nursery work and
pay all expenses. 1 am sure we shall
succeed In our effort to build new and
larger home.''
Rules Of Day Nursery.
The day nursery is an interesting In
stitution. The children must be clean
when brought there. They are apparently
well taken care of, at least there was no
baby crying during the hour The Star
reporter was among them. They were
we'll behaved. and seemed to be able to
amuse themselves. There is one room fit
ted up as playroom In wet
weather for the smaller children.
There is a spacious yard, in which the
older children find amusement. Three OF
the five rooms of the house are set apart
for the children. The front room Is used
as u reception room, a Sunday schooi
room and meeting place for the clubs.
The remaining room is for the living
apartment of Miss Allen. She is a miss.
by the way. She was never married, she
says, and has never entertained the
thought. She is welded to her work, and
its success is all she seems to care for.
She is a quiet, modest sort of person.
almost prim in her manner. and yet al
ways pleasant.
There have been many times when life
went hard with u.s. she said but 1t all
came out all right. feel that God will
lead me when 1 cannot see the way my
self, and SO I am never afraid OF any
undertaking that will better my work
in life"
Hours Observed.
The day nursery Is open from o'clock
in the morning until o'clock at night
1--WE tried to have all the mothers come
for their children by o'clock at the lat
est, but it is almost Impossible for some
OF them to do SO. Some Of our mothers
work at Takoma Park, some at Mount
>Pleasant and some as far away as
Georgetown. They all come for their chill
dren at night soon as they possibly
can. Some mothers pay their 5 cents
daily, some weekly, some when they get
1t and some, poor things, cannot pay 1t
at all.
Our people, as race, are poor. They
help us in the churches as best they can,
but many times our little collection has
had to go over a week because the church
has had to bury some poor soul and was
unable to do that and help US too. This
has happened at times In cold weather
when we had no fuel, and at other times
when we were short of food: but We
weathered the storm some how and ! be-
lieve we always SHALL
This Supplemented colored girl. who
lost her own mother when she was twelve
years old, has learned with her simple
faith and earnest purpose in life to be
mother to the neighborhood in which
she has cast her lot. and one of the hard
working women whose children she had
cared for during the day said. when The
Star reporter called at the nursery. The
Lord only knows what We would do with
out her"