Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-01-07
americans MAY
HELPDES7ITuTE
women ABROAD

| LONDON, Eng--W..i YOU please
"endoW a chair in our knitting
rooms? There is a destitute woman
worker waiting TO NO PIT into it the
moment you say the wOrd-the mo-
ment the money for Ler very small
wages can be provided 1t is a plain
wooden kitchen chair On the back
: Of il your name and address will be
marked, and III you will send One( a
CHEEKY little motto or message OF
friendship-a link between You and
the woman whose ueSGa;r you have
cleared away. Livery i"Onth Won will
receive a letter tellin.; how the wo-
man who sits working in your chair
is getting on.
These are women that the Red
Cross and sOldier's-wife funds do not
I take care Of They are not soldiers
wives Just working women whose
employment has anished-chance vic
TINS of war who cone under no spe.
cial classification. They are not beg
CARS. All they want iS work Work
Is what We are trying to give them
They are women, young and old. who
had worked at nnski.led trades for
years-clean. self respecting. proud
, that they had never taken charity-yet
always only a few days ahead of hun
ger. Some of them were stenograph-
erS or bookkeeperS. some were even
skilled workers. War came and in
week or two they were without work,
without money for food. or fuel, or
rent. There are almost no rich peo-
pie in this part of LOnGOn. Almost all
are as poor as that. The wonderful
charity of the poor and of little re-
tailers who themselves are struggling
against bankruptcy is mainly what
has kept them alive SO long.
Sell Even Clothing.
Some of the womcI who come to
us have sold even their blouses to
feed their children; Trey have used
their underwear to wran their babies;
except for skirt and coat they are
naked to the winter. Nearly all have
children or parents or old disabled
husbands. or Invalid relatives depend
ing on them.
And the marvel IS that they feed
their families and hold their little
households together and pay rent and
food and fuel, and debts of honor to
Ehe kindhearted little grocers and give
their neighbors help on the pittance
We pay them-ten shiliings-two dol
lars and a half a week. And after
week of work, real work, when pay
day comes they are so. grateful that
they choke when they try to say
thank you" -.
Won't you be payrlaster for one
more Of these women? 1t is less than
40 cents a. day.
If your strength and skill guards
the comfort of a dear woman at
home; or IF you are self-reliant
business giEl;pf4ryb to- realiise s::Yhat
happens to a wonaHsTho has, no one
to cling to When8ithef bottom drops
from under-who,Ihasg others depend
ing on heryiRhonf fades Willingness
and faces itqfnEs weeks, Women9 so
terrified and ttespairing that they
have stopped shrinking tin plain words
actually Inc the same state as a parJ
alyzed bird waiting for a snake-wait4f
ing for fate doG overtake .them). come
to us listisssly, as if they did not
really believe there could be any
more work Tor wages for them in the
world again., "a.
They are put to work, they come
out of their coma, they get grip on
themselves; in few hours they are
actually singing over their work and
making pathetic happy little plans for
the future. But that is only if we
have the money to take them in.
The Golden Opportunity. !
You see what a golden opportunity
/ am offering you-the chance to do
just that. for one more out of the
that are waiting; and to
make every penny Of your self-denial
mean more than it has ever meant be-
fore. The women who have had no !
work for months, and who have moth !
ing, are counted now By tens of thou
sands. All the relief employment"
that we and others can create can
only meet a fraction Of the distress.
We know that But we must do all
out workrooms means another woman
and her family can be kept going" /
Remember they are not charity-hunt
ers but real workers. To the end they
are brave, self-respecting and silent. /
Do you see that their bravery is a
challenge to. your bravery-a chal-
Iengt to your self-denial-not only for
the money that isn't missed. but for
the brave selfdenial of money that
Is hard to spare.
Now will you, by yourself or with !
your friends, "endow" chair in our
knitfino rooms en- that We ran nav tho