Los Angeles herald., 1910-01-22
we have access to many homes where
others cannot enter.
UpIifts the Unfortunates

we nave access TO MANY noheS "hOAS
others cannot enter.
Uplifts the Unfortunates
1--WE enter the lives of the children
and unfortunates through personal
visits l go into tn ehome as frlehd'
My sympathy goes out to all chlldreh
of misfortune and I. believe that the
persons 1 visit feel that my friendship
is genuine. We disclose real friend
ship, and the rest is comparatively
easy.
1--WE work along practical lines. IN
order to create the best of men ana
women from the children education IS
necessary. Therefore when the home
is dependent upon the earnings OF
child we place the minor in school anu
pay the family SO week, cnllG
average wage. We also provide cloth-
ing, food and medicine If needed py
dependent members Of the family.
"There is a touching appeal in many
cases which have come under my own
observation while In this work. we
recently placed a scholarship for lit
tie boy who has supported a par
| alyzed mother two years. He now
goes to school, but in addition does the
housework, washes and irons. wheels
his mother to the doctor three times a
week and, despite these duties, sells
papers every evening. This boy mas
| been one Of the greatest inspirations
| to this committee. We nave peeh
| asked why we did not place the moth-
er in a hospital and the boy in some
good family. The reason is patent.
The mother would not live without the
presence and love of her boy.
Another widow without means has
seven children, the oldest being less
than Il years of age. A talented girl
of the family is earning about 80
week and giving it all to her mother,
at the same time attempting TO edu-
cate herself through correspondence
Remedy Sadly Needed
"Anether family on our list con-
sists of a father, grandmother and
five children. They live in a mere
lean-to. Does not the education OF
these five children mean the future OF
five families?
"There are different ways of aiding
the child than in mere school educa-
| tion. There are talents which should
be encouraged. 1 find that children
should be taught housekeeping, dress
making and other things which enter
into their futures.
"One would be amazed at the num-
her of needy cases in the city. 1t is
touching to observe the number OF men
and women who have seen better days
hut now are unable to assist their 1T
tie ones in any way. The dlfflcultles
we are endeaVoring to overcome are
illustrated In these very families. we
find husbands who labor for living
without hope of advancement whose
wages have failed to remain adequate
TO the demands Of an increasing ram
ilv And another danger lies in the
low conditions OF homes where strug-
cling mothers and widows have be-
come so discouraged that even clean
liness does not appeal TO then' to
rear children in such surroundings Is
, menace. ~,
"In order to provide way up the
ladder: to guard against future OF
toll at limited earnings, it is our duty
TO provide the education which even
will take the ragamuffins from tne
streets and make ambitious men aho
women of them.
Is Work of Love
"This also is the remedy for those
who. through inadequate wages, be,
come outcast girls. Again I say tha'
this Is q duty imposed upon all cltl'
zens who are able to lend aid.
"If the work of this committee wa!
-. thoroughly understood by the puollc
have no doubt that many persons WH'
have had a child taken from then
would be happy to assist one of these
! needy ones. Those who have longee
for infants would find happiness II
doing for other children, now unhappy
and neglected. Why should the child
less rob some child in the world o
, its support and allow the unfortunate
to grow up in ignorance?
"This is a work of love. We do no
make a single visit to a home, writ.
, out a long report and then pass on.
have visited some of these homes a
!, many as ten to fifteen times during th'
past year Our committee rot onl!
: becomes a real friend to the child, bu
: TO all others of the household. w
minister to the helpless, nurse then
and try to uplift them through per
! sonal influence.
'"The Mothers congress works amoni
these people with so much feeling an
3 sympathy that success comes. Mrs
1 Chalmers Smith. president of the con
4 gress, feels for these unfortunates. Sh
= has a big heart and hers is a work o
/ love. Her place is at the head Of thi
- great organization, and with her IN
4 mothers are trying to aid and upllt
o these children and women.
a 'I have yet to find the first persol