Newark evening star and Newark advertiser., 1914-12-12
TOUCHING APPEAL
FOR XMAS AID
FINDS RESPONSE
Evening Star Reader Sends
Small poDation to Christ
mas Fund.

Let us have more of such letters
as this and The Evening Stars
Christmas Cheer Fund will be q
grand success this year. An Eve
ming Star reader writes as follows:
Dear Sir-I have been reading
about the pathetic cases which show
the need of aid for worthy families.
Every case is indeed very touching.
| wish ii were within my power to
generously aid all the needy. I'm
closed find a small donation of 81 10
help cheer. some of the needy. Please
place it to someone whose donations
have been the smallest
A SYMPATHETIC READER.
Today a woman called at The Eve
ming Star office and asked if we
could interest some of our sym
pathetic readers to provide work for
her. She is the mother of child.
Her husband, she says, can earn
only S6 a week and this, as We al
know, will not pay rent and furnish
even the bare necessities cs n1e lor
a family of three She does not ask
for charity, in its strictest sense,
but asks for work that she may add
to their present income sufficiently
to enable her to provide for the
family.
d
And another woman writes as fol-
lows:
Dear Sir-I have been a reader II
your paper for a long time and
now have to apply to you for aid.
| am the mother Of six small chill
dren. There are none of them old
enough to go to work. My husband
has been out of work several weeks,
and just as he was getting on full
time the factory burned down and
he is not working now. | would like
to have Santa Claus to visit our
home and help make the children
happy. Also get work 70 DC Pc
spectfully. A SAD MOTHER.
This would seem TO be oase Of
temporary stringency which can be
relieved by providing work for the
father or mother to do. If these and
other cases whose histories we give
here have no appeal to the SYM
rathetic side of your nature, there
are others which can be seen by
calling at the office of The Evening
Star.
We do not, of course. ask anyone
of our readers to provide the entire
relief in any one of these cases. But
we can, all of us, give something
for the relief of cases and condi-
tions which should not exist in a
municipality of the size of Newark.
Give what you can, little or big, and
the sum total will enable us to relieve
the Immediate necessity in a majority
of the poor homes told OF here.
EVENING STAR CASE NO. l. a
Here is a woman whose husband,
although sick and recently out of the
hospital, is still willing and anxious
to do light work that he may provide
for his wife and children. She writes:
my husband has been sick for the
last two years and unable to- work
in all that time. He was in the hos
pital for three months and now must
be under the doctors care all the
time. have two little girls and they
need shoes If my husband could only
find a few days light work each week
1t would help greatly|
Who will interest themselves TO find
this worthy man light work, or pro-
vide warm clothing and food for
these little ones?
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 2.
A lady writes as follows: u know
of a widow with two children, boy
and a girl. eleven and seven years old.
They are waiting for Santa Claus to
come and bring them Clothes and
shoes, which they need badly The
mother has all she can IL 70 provide
food and shelter for herself and little
ones" Will someone help in this
case?
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 3.
A mother Of four small children,
one and a half to six years old, soon
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