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

| WUMEN ADRUAD
| LONDON, Eng. --l...; YOU please
1"cndow a chair IN our knitting
rooms? There is-a destitute woman
worker waiting TO he PCT into it tn"
moment you s." the WOrd-tEv mo
ment The money Tor GER very small
wages can be provided Il is a plain
wooden kitchen chair On the back
CT il YOUR name and address, will be
marked. and If YOU VIII send oneI a
CHEEKY little motto or message OF
friendship-a link bet"e'n you and
the woman whose dc>na:r YOU have
cleared away. Every :lonih yOu will
receive a letter telIin; how the VIC
man who sits working n your chair
is getting on,
| These are women that the Red
Cross and soldier s-wifo funds do not
take care Of They are net soldiers
, wives just working women whose
employment has vanished chance vic
TINS OF war who come under no spe.
cial classification. They are not beg
CARS. All they want iS ~NOrk' Work
is what We are trying to give them.
They are women, young and old, who
had worked at unski led. trades for
years. clean. self respecting, proud
that they had never taken charity yet
always only few days. ahead Of hun
ger: Some Of them were stenograph-
ers or bOakkeeperS. some We're even
skilled workers. War came and in a
week Cr two they were without work,
without money for food. CIR fuel, or
rent. There are almost no rich peO-
pie in this part of Lon"On. Almost all
are as poor as that. The wonderful
charity of the poor and OF little re-
tailers who themselves arc 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 wrap 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 marvei IS that they feed
their families and hold their little
I households together and pay rent and
| food and fuel, and debts of honor to
the kindhearted little Grncers and give
their neighbors help on the pittance
we pay them-ten shiliings-twO dol
lars and a half week. And after a
week of work, reer work. when pay
day comes thev are so grateful that
, they choke when they try to say
thank yen"
Won't you be payr'aster for one
more OF these women, It 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 girl; try to, realize what
i, happens to woman who has no one
to cling to when the bottom drops
from under-whO has others depend
ing on. her, who faces nothingness
and faces it for weeks Women so
terrified and despairing that they
have stopped thinking in plain words
actually in the sans: state as par
alyzed bird waiting for a snake-wait-
ing for fate to overtake them. come
| to US listlessly, as if they did not
really believe there could be; any
more work or wages for them in the
world, again.
They are put to work. they come
out Of their coma, they get grip on
themselves; in a few hours they are
actually singing over their work ana
making pathetic happy little plans for
the future But that rs only if we
have the money to take them in.
The Golden opportunitE
You see what golden opportunity
am offering you-the chance to do
just that, for one more out of the
thousands that are waiting; and to
make every penny of ypur 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
we can Every chair we can add TO
ont workrooms means another woman
and her family can be kept going"
Remember they are MT charity-hunt-
ers but real workers To the end they
are brave, self-respecting and silent.
Do you see that their bravery is
challenge to your bravery-a chal-
lengt to your seIf-denial-not only for
the money that isn't missed, but for
the brave self-denial OF money that
is hard to spare.
Now win you, by yourself or with
your friends. "endow" chair in our
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