Wausau pilot. [volume] (Wausau, Wis.) 1896-1940, 1911-10-03
LETTER FROM A FORMER CITI-
ZEN OF WAUSAU.
Editor of UdacSdu Pilot:

Editor of HUtSGu Pilot:
Allow ME, as an old time friend,
and subscriber of your estimable
paper, as we'll as resident OF Wausau
in the early days, to express through
your columns my appreciation of the
wonderful progress made during the
past % years in the size, beauty and
improvement generally of your city.
1t was my privilege this summer to
spend a number of days, the guest
of old friends there, who gave me
many opportunities to note the great
changes for the better, not only in
Wausau itself, but also in the sur
rounding country.
Your paper is a most welcome Wis
itor at my home each week and the
extracts from the old time issues are
of particular interest to me, as they
carry me back in memory to the days
when l was teacher in the public
school. The boys and girls of that
day are many of them fathers and
mothers today, and among your most
respected citizens. Some have gone
from there and are filling positions of
honor and trust in other places. 1t
is with pleasure and pride that l
learn of old pupils of those days, hold
ing positions of responsibility and trust
and rejecting credit and honor upon
themselves and their home town.
Permit me to speak of one who is
doing a magnificent work, not very
| far from her own home: and yet in
so transformations way that perhaps
only the most intimate of her old
| friends know of her whereabouts.
The lady referred to is Miss
Lucy Judson, born and bred in Wau-
sau, and for a time, teacher in the
public schools. She went to Chicago
and entered the Deaconess Training
school, for she was filled with the
missionary spirit and felt impelled to
take up life of service to others.
1
soon discovered by the Deaconess
board, and she was chosen to take
charge of an orphanage at Lake Bluff,
Illinois. This orphanage then Swas
simply the mereSt beginning of the
institution which iSnow such credit
to the Deaconess SisterhOod, being
very inadequate to the needs of the
% little waits who had been gathered
together, by a few kind women of
this noble organization, to care for,
scarce knowing where the means to
provide for the necessary food, cloth
ing, ETC., would come from. Miss
Judson stepped into the position, and
with wonderful executive and business
ability, so planned, directed and
superintended the work, that the in
stitution was soon running smoothly
and holding out its benevolent arms
for the protection of many more of
these unfortunate children. During
the fourteen years that Miss Judson
has managed this institution, it has
increased in size and beauty, till six
buildings we'll equipped and large
well shaded grounds gave the many
children whose good fortune it was to
enter there a comfortable and home
like shelter. Nearly 500 children hav-
ing been inmates of this orphanage
have during that time, been adopted
into good homes; few in your own
city, while there are now about 40
being cared for.
This institution is not like the Or
binary orphan asylum where poor
little sad eyed children are disciplined
in cold, unfeeling atmosphere, but
it is a home where ali are one big
family. The different nurses and
teachers are loving and tender, while
Miss JudSon as superintendent is
mother 10 all. She watches over the
welfare of each child as a mother
would Children are not given for