Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-07-16
Evidence of Advancing Humanity.

| At last,
| We have lived to see the day when o
society for the protection of children or
something, resorts to common sense
| methods, where stereotyped plans
would not prolong and make happier
a human life.
You know the usual program is to
break up suffering family instantly
on arrival to convey "benefits''-sepa-
rate mothers and children and destroy
all records and clues, SO that should
good luck ever come to any one Of
them ii would be utterly impossible to
reunite the family.
Well, at last the dispatches tell us
that charitable" society has DE
cIDED' to assist the feeble remnants
of family-after awaiting the moth
er's death in filth and dstress-with-
out separating the members. Wonder
fpl, wonderful. We begin to have a
one-thousandth of one per cent. faith
In big city charitable associations. Here
is the story from a Philadelphia ex-
change:
1.-The Society to Protect Children from
Cruelty feels that two of its wards,
Albert Schmidt. almost 60 years old, and
moved from their present surroundings
The one room in which they live has not
been cleaned in six months During that that
his son have not eaten cooked meal.
But the society will not remove them as
the father and son refuse to be separat-
ed Neither has another friend In the
world. Their devotion is extraordinary.
This is their story.
Nearly two years ago. they came TO
America from Austria. The mother was
living then: the father, baker by trade.
readily found work. and the boy was sent
to school. Hard times soon came Tor
when she arrived here, was homesick ior
the old country-and her condition was
growing worse. Finally, she Eco could ID d rag
and his father did the housework until
the fathers strength gave out. a.
1.-The boy was impelled to go TO- me
week begears could go to the town nall
to get such permit. The authorizes AT
norted to the Society to Protect children
from Cruelty The arrangements Wers
made to send the mother to n9spihsa ID, !, /
pttt CT
respectabie folk and SO suspicious oi
ameerican institutions. that she refused
10 60, Soon after that she died, touaa
a. regain his strength broken before ms
time The life of baker does not tenu Ia so
longevity, and here We're he IVA had been
against this man. The ror b Sy Vent to work
~ =, . hoy factory on Market streei, al''s
ever since has been supporting
and father. decrenit and prematurely in
It, d ~ Is happy. All day long he sits
4, the dirty room, too weak 10 ,nhac-
about He is content ean , aet the he amount OF
GO 70 mas been accustomed 70 uf, h,e
daily all his life. Joseph spe'ias az
extra money on ms Sa ,'' always been acne
II h eo rsa,centlv developed tubercui9sSt'1s,,
M. ILL., Society has offered TO "A t' IN mt
healthinl wo ~ a hospital. But. the n fs,,
his ia,aei Knows his father Will no, nr.
say say and the old man pleads tla aea ra
not aI i've society has decided that the
.h;nn 10 do is to employ some ,
body to clean the room every L, W.
make the old man conn'or'aD's'
let us thank God for that generous
..a,.,a,. THAT charitable society
| can actually clean up and assist WORTHY
.r,iacts without sending one TO ''''
North pole and the other TO ,he o'''"
&c magnificent vindication OF ho'i''
brains and charity.
Now. some day, we may ai'''os' ny
that a little assistance may De eAee''
ID 10 mothers who are fighting I
maintain the earthly heaven oil hoii'e=
aud the only happiness they know
without destroying all trace OF eae'
ether Maybe we shall live to see act
nal aid given to mothers to keep 'iie'
eocks together under their own Towns
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