Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1911-07-27
Ne1o Way to Keep the Wolf Out
BY 7. J. ECMONpS.
Financial Secretary Cincinnati Charity Organization Society.
BY 7. J. ECMoNpS.

Nesting amid the hills OF the Little
Miami valley is d quaint village whose
name commentaries the bloody cx-
ploits of Mad Anthony Wayne in those
parts over a century ago. In recent
years Il group of L. girls existed there
known as he panhandle Club
What a strange name for q club
says a reader 1T WAS not so called
from the gentle peripatetic art OF "p3n-
handling" Panhandle" meant what
1t sald-the handle of d pan" Th.
Panhandle club was a cooking club.
OF the II and the hostess prepared n
lepast of the most wholesome pieces dc
resistance md the most detachable tiuf-
Illnesses. There We're - lucky mon in
Nitcd to these feasts. And-well, II OF
them have now married IL of the girls.
and the twelfth. an unhappy bachelor.
curses the day he left that village of
romance.
The history of the old Panhandle club
illustrates the Importance of the house
Keeping art before marriage. tho en-
lerience of social workers i'm the homes
Of the poor emphasizes its Importance
after the home has been established
Every social worker has learned that
although sometimes the wolf enters the
home because the income is too small.
more often he comes because the outso
is too large: that too many pennies roll
away in the wake of burned and dis
carded food materials and u%ninended
garments; that whcn mothers don't
know how to fight germs with cleanli-
mess and sanitary habits disease be
comes a culture medium for poverty
and poverty again for disease in what
physicians call a vicious circle"
TO cure poverty arising from ignor-
! economy the Associated Charities of
Cincinnati employed a visiting house
keeper. Miss Grief. Her work and just
how she gets results that spell the ulti-
mate redemption of families from the
curse OF poverty ma be most striking-
~ told by q true story of one family
The Trawigs We're a sturdy German
family consisting of Wentzcl ~TraMig.
his frau, and the sin little 'Trawigs.
Just RS many years ago as there arc
members in the family. the Trawigs
came from the fathcrland lured by tales
of the great rewards in the land of
promise across the seas.
/ Late in November the visiting house
keeper of the associated charities found
the TraN'igs living in IL rear apartment
of Il Wretchcd tenement on West Fifth
street, approached through Il long.
narrow hallway full OF sudden wind-
Ings and turninss and even i'm day time
utterly dark. There We're two Don
for eight people. The first OF these
with two beds was the typical dark
room" lishtlcsS and unventilated. The
rear room opened upon Il narrow court
by WI superlatively dirty windows. In
\ We're two cots. Il stove. a table piled
with dishes unwashed n enough
rick,ty chairs to accommodate y quo
rum OF the family.
Mi. Trawis WAS away from home in
his VAIN search for work. Little Mary,
aged :. was along the railroad tracks
picking vi coal. Mrs. Trawig Was en-
1eaV0ljny TO restore the ORIGINAL colon
of Undertaking which Italian work
men in the neighborhood had brought
to her. For this she earned from $l.2-
TO Sl.75 per week.
Miss Croft persuaded the mother /,
clean the children. Dcna. who had .
temperature of Io2 and legs ali broker
out with large red blotches. Was sent
to the hospital. The kitchen was put
i'm order and a place found for tho
cooking utensils. The furniture in gcn-
cral Was Strengthened up. The beds
were neatly made. the windows cleaned
better ventilation secured. The donl
leading into the dark room was opened
At nearby stores Miss Grief ordered
coal and provisions sent in al once.
Later Mr.. Trawis. stimulated II
greater efforts by the improved tone
of his home. was more successful il
finding work. The week after Mis-:
Grief's first visit he earned $3.50, thu
next week $3.50. Finally he secured ;
position in the railroad yards. where h
wage. The foreman says that Trawi:
is ono Of his most trustworthy emr
ployeS.
The family was found a house;
whole house with three very largo
light rooms-in the suburbs. five min
ntes' walk from Trawig's work. j.
che real of the house is a little yar'