The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-11-15
FOR THE k|DDIES
Kansas Children's Home Soci-
ETY. Has Receiving House.
Temporary Home viii Be
Opened December 1.
new OFFICE BUILDING SOON?
Committee Appointed to Find
Site for Structure.
Human Interest Stories Told
by the Superintendent.
NEW OFFICE BUILDING SOON?

The large ten-room house at 1T
Clay street, which was recently pro-
cured by the Kansas Children's Home
society from ]. H. Evans for the con-
sideration Of $4,000, will be opened
December l, as the temporary receiv-
ing home for the society to take the
place of the inadequate quarters in
Oakland.
A large room is finished in the attic
of the structure that will be used in
case of quarantine. The rooms are SO
arranged that it will be possible to
conveniently entirely segregate the
boys from the girls.
swings, sand piles. ETC., will be pro-
vided In the back yard for the children
VINO are kept at the home until the
arrangements are made for placing
them where they will receive good
care. 1t seldom occurs that a child
week and many go out the day they
arrive, as the demand for children is
greater than the supply-particularly
little tots Once in a while for special
reasons child il retained in the re-
celVlng home for one or two months.
New Office Buildings.
A new office headquarters for the
society will be a reality soon according
TO present indications. There are
pledges to the amount of $4,000
which are being rapidly paid. This
money will go towards the office
Du1lo1ng which aside from providing
adequate quarters for the organization
Will through the rental of office rooms
provide an endowment for perpetual
Ing the work of the society.
A committee has been appointed
composed of w. M. Forbes and T. w.
Dawson. which is negotiating with the
owners of a dozen different properties
with a view to procuring a desirable
site for the office building. This COM
m1ttee will confer with the superinten-
dent, d. F. Shirk. and then the cues
ton of a site will be checked up to the
board of managers.
Make Elaborate Preparations.
Many of the families that take
wards of the society into their homes
make elaborate preparations for re-
celving and caring for the children.
Just as an example of this a colored
woman of means, and who possesses
an unusual degree of culture. has ask
ed for colored baby but three months
of age. 1t is interesting to note the
preparations she is making for caring
for the child. She has made many
dainty lace trimmed gowns and soft
I1lmy dresses, and piano has even
been purchased in anticipation of cul--
tivating in the youngster a love for
music. .-ass -
bright boy Is years of age was re-
turned by family because Of the fact
that the wife is an invalid and it was
impossible to properly care for the
boy. Another family took him at
once. Four children were placed in
homes in one day this week.
A request has come to the society
through friend to take over two ba-
bies whose mother recently died and
whose relatives are not able to care
for them properly. The society will
gladly received them as there are now
20 homes open for babies.
Five children have been received
from Wellington through the request
of the probate judge of that place and
all have been placed with the excep-
ton of a boy ten years old. The child
rem ranged in age from IS months to
IS years.
Mrs. E. A. Evans. superintendent OF
the Emporia district, brought in three
children from Usage county, asking
the society to hold them until such a
time as the mother can make arrange
ments to care for them herself.
There is a growing demand for
children. On November 1 there were
two in the temporary retaining home
in Oakland, week later there were
Is and today there are but four.