Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-22
little for them Would be very glad
IL YOU will give them something"

little for them Would be very glad
II you will give them something"
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 6.
This is a very sad case. The
mother of four small children is in
| the City Hospital (from which she
| writes her letter to us), and is ex-
| pecting to give birth to fifth child
| any day now. The husband has been
| under a doctors care for twelve
| weeks and is unable to work. She
| appeals for a Christmas dinner for
her children, surely not much to ASK.
| Who of our readers will supply III
EVENING STAR CASE NO. I.
A lady writes as follows:
''I know a woman and her husband
who are in want; no fire or food In
| the house and badly in debt for rent
and an invalid son to support. Both
husband and wife are sixty seven
years old, owing to which he Is
unable TO secure steady work. The
wife has worked until recently.
when owing to hard times, she has
lost what little work she had been
able to 40"
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 9.
A lady gives us the details of this
case: A mother of six children, one
a baby only a few weeks old. Father
out of work: no fire, food or clothes.
Mother was discharged from hospl-
tai when baby was ten days old.
Children need clothes. Family needs
fuel and food.
Who will help to supply it?
A cash donation of six dollars from
one sympathizer was received for this
case and a liberal basket of food will
be sent by another.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
No. 6
Temporary aid is greatly needed In
home where the man of the family
is cut off from work by an injured
hand. These people have lived IN this
city comparatively short time and
their situation is made doubly diff
cut by this fact. There was a wife
anil a baby of two years dependent
on him when the man had his acci-
dent, and now there Is a new baby In
the family. Milk and groceries are
needed in this home
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
No. T.
Energetic but grievously handi-
capped by the loss Of one eye, man
in whom the Bureau Of Associated
difficult to support his family, con-
ting of a wife and five little chill
CT Il. the Oldest IF whom is a boy of
ten years At this time, when 1t is
hard for the physically fit to find or
keep a job 1t is many times more so
for this man with his impaired vision.
It is still harder for such a man after
walking the streets all day in a vain
search for work to return home to
face the distress of wife and children,
and to bring them no word of cheer.
Into this sorrowful little home 1t Is ex =
pected that very soon a sixth little
one will come.
The bureau has found some tenn
porary work for the man, but one or
two days a week. and those, uncer-
tain, are a poor dependence for such
household Relief must be afford
ed these people and contributions are
asked of Sc a week for the family of
seven.
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
NO. q.
Five little children were properly
supported by their father until ne
became too Ill to work.
He is now in a sanatorium being
| treated for tuberculosis and his re-
manning away long enough to estab-
| fish a cure seems largely dependent
on the assurance that his family De
not suffering. His premature return
would certainly mean another break
down.
Some time ago the Bureau of Asso-
ciated Charities raised a fund for
these people which is now exhausted
The mother and children will suffer