Brownsville herald. [volume] (Brownsville, Tex.) 1910-current, 1913-03-03
A BEAUTIFUL WORK.
A VISIT TO THE GOOD SAMARITAN
HOME REVEALS MOST USEFUL.
AND PRACTICAL CHARITABuE
ENTERPRISE.
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Have you taken a peep into the Coed
Samaritan Home, or just the Charity
Hospital, as many call it Its worth q
moment of YOUR time. It's between Wash.
ington and Elizabeth streets, facing on
Fifth and while it's a modest little hos
pital, it's a place where the sick and
weak can find care and medical atten-
ton free. knt y..,,a4, hf ssrk
Some of You helped found it, All of
you who bought tamales last fall helped
lay the foundations. and the good few
who answered the appeals in the Herald
fitted it out ready for the sick and help
less. Someone asked lately what had
been done with the money collected. We
wish you would go see for Yourself, A
trained nurse will show you through the
clean humble rooms. s-a fur et.,srss-H
Did you know that the front room open
ing on Fifth street is the nucleus of an
embryo nursery, where the poor. ,strug-
CLING mothers ma leave their children
while they go out and earn livelihood.
The children are in charei Of a bright
educated woman who teaches them all
day-games and lessons-as she sees fit.
Also. this good woman has a machine
there and sews for them and the inmates.
Some Of the children are practically max
d. Sensible little b~lue-cheeked gingham
dresses are made for them. A happy,
well-fed profitable day they spend while
the Overburdened mothers can be free
TO earn a pittance at least.
This day nursery feature alone makes
the home worth while and as the news
spreads Of this, the room will be insult.
ficieRt to house the babies of the work
ing mothers. Shelves of beans, macaroni,
lard rice, and coffee give promise of good
wholesome meals.
In the next room there died last week
an aged homeless workman who was
crushed under a falling horse. His daugh
ter from the country was invited by his
side a room having been offered her. The
old man was given all relief possible by
a trained nurse and doctors, and he was
given a decent funeral upon his death.
Today there is a sick old man in one of
the beds, and a convalescent girl who
would never have recovered had she not
received trained care and the attendance
OF a good physician. In the clean dining
room at the two tables, with their spot
less Oil cloth covers, a number of loiter-
ing old women find wholesome meals
warm, rich soup, hot tortillas and fri
joles and coffee. In the kitchen a cap
able cook spends her day serving meals,
preparing good meals, grinding corn and
making tortillas. Each of the poor are
given a cake of soap and q few pennies
each week. This has stopped much of the
house to house begging and much suffer
ing.
There are good beds for the needy,
there are doctors and nurses for the sick.
A poor penniless expectant mother may
come here in her hour of trail. and find
medical care and tender, helpful sym
pathy, be relieved of the care of her ba-
by and b properly nOurished during those
necessary few weeks.
The appeal reached so many hearts the
little hospital has been Yble to pull
through the hardest part of the winter
Finances are at a low ebb today. but if
we closed the doors tomorrow, we still
are glad We have been able to do so much
good. If you know a poor, sick, penni-
less girl, an old, crippled, helpless man,
a motherless baby, a pitiful, fearful
mother-tO-be, you have the right to send
her here to the proper care. This, like
Gods house, has it's doors p to all
so long as we can keep the doors Open.
We can but hope that there are several
good people in our midst who will come
to the Good Samaritan Home. and see
the great, quiet, work and endow it. We
can keel it open. We must.
JUNCTION CITY-A meeting OF the
San Antonio, Blanco and Granite Belt
Good Roads Association is to e held
here shortly. The association plans to
build from San Antonio north through
COmal, BlancO, Burnet, Williamson and
Travis counties.
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