Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1914-12-15
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and cannot earn very much money.
My mother 10 blind and we are in
need of warm clothing and food
''Dear Editor.
II am the mother of five small chill
dren. none of them old enough to
work. MY husband has been out of
work a year and we are in very bad
circumstances,
The mother of four small children,
Oldest thirteen, youngest three; hus-
band out of work. mother not strong
enough to do heavy work, asks for
fuel and food.
Father and mother of this family
both anxious to work, not asking for
charity Husband afflicted with sore
legs, has been idle for seven months.
Wife compelled to do housework out
side but cannot find enough of that
10 do. Have three SONS aged five to
eleven years. Light work for the
father and mother is requested, or,
failing this, substantial aid, as they
are in very bad shape.
Mother of two children, twelve and
fourteen years of age, widow, asks
for clothing and shoes, that she may
send them to school, also work for
herself
EVENING STAR CASE NO. ].
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
Tor 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. I have two little girls and they
need shoes. If my husband could only
find few days light work each week
Il 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. ..
A lady writes as ~ W. ;: Il know
of a widow with Two c..;.eren, a boy
And 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 dc - provide
food and shelter for herself and little
case?
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 3.
A mother of four small children,
one and a half to six years old, soon
again to become a mother. Husband
earns only So or 81 a week. Out of
this they cannot get enough to eat
nor. coal to keep warm. Owing to her
condition, mother Is unable TO go out
to do days work. Wife pleads for
steady work for husband and cloth
ing for the three children.
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 4.
A lady writes as follows:
.'Will you please help me to give
some poor little orphan children
something for Xmas? A poor mother
with nursing baby and two or three
others, unable to get work to do, are
In my care, and am able to do but
little for them. Would be very glad
Il you will give them something"
EVENING STAR CASE NO. 5.
A widow with four small children
would be very glad IL someone would
send Santa Claus to gladden. their
hearts She has been supporting her
children by doing days work. Has
work now only two days g. week. Has
tried to get more, but has failed. Asks
for work Children all need shoes,
underwear and boy needs clothes
EVENING STAR CASE no. 6.
This is very sad case. The
mother of four small children is in
the City Hospital 4rom which she
writes her letter to us), and is ex-
pecting to give birth to a fifth child
any day now. The husband has been
Z under a doctors care for twelve
weeks and is unable to work. She
appeals for Christmas dinner for
her children, surely not much to ask.
Who Of our readers will supply 1t?
EVENING STAR CASE. NO. Z.
A lady writes as follows
II know 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 do"
EVENING STAR CASE NO, 8.
a woman with two fatherless
children, husband having died year
and q half ago. The mother has
been i'll for a long time. DoctorS say
her trouble Is incipient tuberculosis.
neurasthenia, general debility and
very serious heart trouble. Children.
two girls, aged four and, one-half
and seven years, need shoes, clothing
and Christmas dinner
EVENING STAR CASE NO. g.
4 lady gives us the details of this
case: A mother of six children, one
A baby only few weeks old. Father
out of work; no fire, food or clothes.
Mother was discharged from hospi-
tai when baby was ten days old.
Children need clothes. Family needs
fuel and food. -
Who VIII help to supply it?
Additional cases of great need yeri-
fed by the Bureau Of Associated
Charities:
ASSOCIATED CHARITIES CASE
No. 6.
Temporary aid Is greatly needed In
a home where the man of the family
is cut off from work by an injured
hand These people have lived in this