The Birmingham age-herald., 1912-02-18
WE ARE FOUR-FRED AND
 EDITH, GRACE AND EDDIE
Fly MRS. J. B. REID

1t is as the wise that holds the iron for the grip of the workman. Help holds nations together as they are uniting for a cause. It is everybody's privilege to help as ono finds the need for it. h. stitutions are towering from the poor mans mite, and joys are being sown broadcast, from the seed of dime.
 Not only the old folks and grown folks and young women have been given a refuge. Through the work of the Juye- nile court of Jefferson county many little boys and girls have been made bet ter and happier by the protecting care of a home-that home of the Boys Club and Children's Aid society on South 15th street. Look into the nursery and sec the tiny tots who are clipping their paper dolls and playing lady waiting until Judge Murphy and Mr. Barrow can find them real mama and papa, and you will see even the small things of great, growing city are carefully watched and cared for
 We present to you this morning four little guests of the home who have peeped through the naked walls. the broken doors and empty pantry of helpless home. into the tender care of good Mrs. Yerdy, the matron, who has taught them to whisper their very first 'Now I lay mo down to sleep They are Fred, age l.. Edith 70, Grace seven
 
 CT too young to claim from the nourish- ment of a mother.
 About three weeks ago good kind man found these little folks alone, dirty and forlorn in a hovel on the roadside 16 miles from the city's center. There was no home-the children were the all, cold, ragged. hungry, in an atmosphere un- healthy 10 body and soul, for the years of their life they had existed there until their very existence seemed almost im- possible-when Judge Murphy received the call for attention. At once an automobile was sent out with MT. Barrow to bring the children in. and then .'ca le baby and all.' They had never seen an automobile before Is it a wonder they were wild with fright as they rode among strangers so many miles? But their faces are beaming with joy now in their new found home. They never knew one before never felt a parents love. Children of unfortunate circumstances, they were Just here-all hudded in the woods by the wayside, waiting for what, too young to know, even to trust--iust there, knowing not whence they came. And now with faces clean and braided hair and tidy frock. they smile and romp with no unhappy thought of the old life in the forsaken shanty.
 How long will they remain in the home is natural query. This home every
  and dimes you give when the young girls pins aa "Tag Day" badge on you each April. When Judge Murphy has these charges to keep until conditions can be changed. the Boys club opens it's doors, and Mrs. Yerdy and Miss Mary Rumph welcome these little ones under their roof, and see that each little want is filled They do not want much-bread and butter and ''something to eat and place to sleep, with clean "nighties' that they never knew before. Only the other day Riddle wanted something-"a pair of scissors that did not stick (mean- ing with no points, so one can cut dolls, too"
 This is one of many sad stories of hapless children, children who are wait ing for help, and through this agency of Birminghams philanthropy the con- ditions of the little folks are being ma terially changed. An average of % child