The Fargo forum and daily republican. [volume] (Fargo, N.D.) 1894-1957, 1913-09-16
home TAG DAY
NEXT SATURDAY
SATURDAY, SEPT. 20, WILL BE
"TAG DAY" FOR THE cRiTTEN-
TON HoME-SoME NEEDS OF
HOME AS SET FORTH BY THE
SUPERINTENDENT.

Saturday, Sept. 20, will be the an
nual Tag day for the Florence Crit
tenton home and the management are
relying on the receipts of the day to
meet a $1,500 note due on the build
ing, which falls due next month. HI
people of Fargo, though called upon
to support numerous projects, will
prove that Tag day for the Crittenton
home is a worthy and the tag
gers will be courteously and generous
ly received as in the past years.
The needs of the home are many
and varied. The annual expense to-
tails $4,000. To meet this a guaran-
tee of $4,000 is needed. The income
for the care of the girls averages
somewhere in the ~neighborhood of ST.
900 per year., leaving a balance OF
some $4,000 that must come from such
people, churches and societies as be-
lieve in the great work that Is being
done.
About $1,000 was realized on Tag
day last year, but with a need of S.
600 it is hoped that the receipts will
be larger his year. At the annual
meeting of the board of directors Of
the home held in the winter, Miss Top
ping, superintendent Of the school,
said in her annual report:
THE home has a further need-it
needs a great number Of people, who
will inform themselves upon the
alarming conditions that face many an
ignorant helpless girl. People who
will inform themselves about the most
christian. as well as the most scientific
method Of caring for he. distressed
cases. Intelligent information, as well
as an impassionate heart, lie at the
basis of all true. philanthropic en-
deaVOr.
Perhaps. at no time in the history
of the work nave WE felt the need so
great to help the mothers care for their
own children. There is not a good.
well-organized home for boarding
children, consequently many a mother
has been compelled to give her child
away, because she could not pay the
amount that was required to board
her child. If some one, who loves a
child, because it is a child. could be
prompted to aid us to build a nursery,
where a mother could keep her child,
it would be a blessed thing to do. We
have in our care, six children, who are
too large for the nursery, where ba-
| bies are kept. They have no play
ground, they need different care and
food from the little babies and with
only n nurse, it is impossible to care
for them. as they should be.
Our greatest need is not where
numbers of children can be cared for,
but a nursery on the cottage plan,
where these children can be brought
up in a wholesome n normal way.
When we try to impress upon the
mother her responsibility as to the flu
ture of her child, and hen send her
out into the world, with no opening
but general Homework and many
times she is not fitted for the work,
there seems nothing for her to do but
to part with her child. Our mothers
are app~reciative of the protection and
tender care they receive here and
know that it pays to cas- to do evil
and to learn to do right. We sincere
ly hope that within the coming veal
there may be some arrangement pos
sib1e for such a nursery.
Another great need at the present
time is a root cellar, where vegetables
can be kept without freezing. We
sincerely hope that this will be made
possible this year also.
Something over a ear ago, a funG
for shoes and stockings was started
with $40 which has ceased to grow
We are often more perplexed than we
can tell you how to clothe our girls
nearly all of them coming to US desti-
tute. The donations of clothing have
dropped down very materially during
the past two years.
One thousand women in the state
Of North Dakota are needed to give
us 81 annually and 500 men to give US
$40 annually.
A memorial may be created by a
gift of $500. At this time we are
greatly in need of funds for the cur
rent year and We are making an ear
nest appeal to all u friends to as
sist us in meeting the needs of the
home.
Any one who is willing to give time
to the work Saturday, tag day. will
please phone the home, 211-J.