The Washington bee., 1909-11-20

the country's worst conditions. The
city problems must be solved in the
city"
The Colored Social Settlement,
realizing the truth of the above facts
is doing its best to increase the OPP
portunities of the unfortunate people
of Southwest Washington to elimi-
nate eventually many of the evils that
exist in that locality, and in this way
do its share in helping to solve many
of the problems that confront the
city of Washington.
The Colored Social Settlement
situated at IS L ST, S. w, has kept
open a day nursery where children
two years old and older may be cared
for during the day while their
mothers go out working.
Its workers have gone into the
homes of the people of its vincinity
and seen that neglected children were
cared for, that a doctor was sent to
the afflicted poor, and that provisions
were given to the needy. The Settle
ment has taught housekeeping, cook
ing and sewing to the mothers, and
their daughters, timing and carpen-
try to the young men and boys. Very
soon chair-caneing and shoe repair
ing will be taught them also
Hundreds of children have been
taken by the workers of the Settle
ment in the summers past to picnics,
on outings, excursions, and many
WORKOUT mothers and their babes
have been sent for weeks rest to
the Summer Camp.
This Settlement has also carried on
a circulating library that has issued
hundreds of books weekly, and it has
conducted a stamp savings bank
where nearly a thousand dollars has
been deposited annually.
The work has outgrown its former
quarters, and today the small, old
tenement house has given place to a
spacious building of sixteen rooms.
In this building, besides providing &C
COmmOdatiOnS for its residents, there
are rooms for the teaching of chair
caneing, carpentry and shoe repair
ing, sewing and cooking, four shower
baths, a day nursery apartment, a
branch public library and reading
room and a gymnasium.
The work is not endowed. The ex-
penses have increased with its growth.
More money is needed for equipment
and two hundred and fifty dollars
monthly for running expenses, be-
sides a debt of FIVE thousand dollars
is due on the building just erected.
1t is the aim of this Settlement to
promote neighborhood and social i'm
provement, TO foster cooperation and
mutual helpfulness among the people
of its vincinity by soliciting all who
may be interested in united effort for
the common good.
If the people of Washington will
but rally to the assistance of its work
ers, the COlored Social Settlement
will be of assistance inestimable to
the people of Southwest Washington.
We are asking former patriots and
all charitably disposed people of the
District to subscribe one dollar an
nually for the maintenance of this
noble work. There are one hundred
thousand colored people in Washing
ton. If one twentieth of that num-
Der would contribute but one dollar
annually to this Settlement, it would
in time become an institution of
which the District would be proud.
Do not wait for the resident work
ers to call and request you to sub
scribe. Send your contribution to the
Settlement House, IS L ST., S. W.,
and thus aid in one of the greatest
movements of raising the standard
of some of the most unfortunate of
your race.
NOTES ON RACIAL PROGRESS