The Paducah evening sun., 1910-03-17
HISTORY OF HOME
OF FRIENDLESS
AND ITS SUCCESS
Has Sheltered Fifteen Hon:
dred Children in Seven.
teen Years.
More Room and Better Equip.
ment Needed.
PLANS FOR ITS EXTENSION.

On account of the Increasing de-
mand for more room at the Home Of
the Friendless the board OF directors
is securing bids to build an addition
consisting of six rooms with baths
and all modern eonveniences. One
of the rooms will be a nursery. which
will fill long felt want. The home
has never had the facilities for car
ing for the real young children, for
that reason they have not been able
10 do as much along that line as they
desired.
One of the older girls Is now re-
ceiying instruction and after taking q
course in nursing, will be put In
charge of this department A deten-
tion ward will be added where AN
suspicious or contagious cases will be
treated. A play noom for the little
ones under school age will be pro-
vided. The hospital soon will be
many other improvements made for
the comfort and convenience OF the
inmates. An excellent school taught
by the matron is maintained, where
the children are instructed in the
common school branches. Devotional
exercises are held every Sunday after
noon, conducted by the ministers or
laymen of the city. The children en-
Joy the talks and lead in the singing.
The policy of the home Is now, as 10
always has been, TO provide tempor-
airy refuge for homeless and friend
and vicinity, and to afford an oppor- +
tunity for reclamation TO those wom- !
en- who having led impure lives, give +
unmistakable evidence of desire to
reform and At themselves for an hon
est livelihood. The children are
taken in permanently. or until bet
ter home can be secured for them.
A nights lodging and temporary
help is always given the homeless.
The excellent matron. Miss Raper.
and her assistants took after the ply
sicaj, mental and moral well being
Of their charges. besides training
them in all kinds OF domestic work.
Many of the girls have been reared
from infancy to young womanhood In
the institution with no recollection
Of any other home, and their devo-
tion to the matron Is beautiful. The
home has been established seventeen
years. and in that time about fifteen
hundred homeless and friendless
have found shelter within its walls.
Employment has been found for a
great number of women. and good
Christian homes secured for the boys
and girls. The directors try to keep
in touch with the children after they
leave the home, and IL upon good au-
thority they find the home undesir-
able, the child Is taken back in the
institution. There are fifty inmates
In the home at present. and the doors +
are alvay openito the friendless and
The board OF directors
seventeen and are represents
atives from the different churches as
follows: Mrs. L. NJ. Rieke, presidents;
Mrs. f. G. Boone. Mrs. e. p. Noble.
Mrs. Josephine Post, Mrs. Charles
Johnson. Mrs. Elbridge Palmer. Mrs.
I. o. Walker. Mrs l.. s. Dubois, Mrs.
II. S. Wells. Mrs. ]. r. Puryear, Ms-
Z. p. ellison, Mrs. VIM. Kidd, Dr. I
Della Caldwell, Mrs. Charles Han,
Mrs. Meyer Lovitch. Mrs. e. b. Lam
dis, Mrs. Cook Husbands.
"Block Day"
II is to be "Block Day" In Padu-
cah all right. The Home of the
Frlendless has almost perfected the
plans and today the envelopes have D
been distributed among the various
chairmen OF "the blocks" who num-
ber some 600 strong. Every portiou ,
of the city will be thoroughly covered
| in this way. as we'll as the Arcadia.
Mechanicsburg and Littleville Sec
tons.
Tomorrow the chairmen will dis
tribute their envelopes throughout a
their districts aud will explain that
they will be called for on Wednesday.
March 2S. at the blowing OF the
whistles With this definite knowl-
edge each individual. family, corpor-
alton. or anything with an envelopes
can be ready and waiting
II will be business-like campaign.
conducted In dignifed way IN
the representative women Of the city.
You make your own assessment. The
envelope is handed in and counted
al leisure By the committee in charge.