The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1915-04-29
Managers OF Crittenton Home
Appeal to the Commission
To Connect the Institution With
the Supply Pipes.
CARRIED UP HILL BY WOMEN
Water for All Purposes Is Con-
veyed in Buckets.
Home Wants Baby Buggies,
Rugs and Chairs.

The Board of Managers of the Crit
| tentOn Home is asking that the city in.
| stall the city water in. the Crittenton
| building. At present all the water
used at the home is carried from the
| foot of a high hill on which the house
stands, by the girls in the home. All
| the water for the washing, scrubbing.
| dish washing, cooking and drinking
| for an average of sixteen or eighteen
people. must be carried by the bucket
| full up the steep, stony hill path. a
| cistern at the top of the hill was
filled some months ago by water car
ried from below, at cost of nine
dollars, but that supply lasted only
short time.
The condition of being without
water system makes the work for the
young women, who are not able to
do such heavy tasks; pitifully labor
iOus, while it renders the surround
ings unsanitary, by reason of having
no proper drainage system and the
1mpoSsibility of carrying enough water
to make its free use practicable. The
water is needed also to take the place
of ice which the home is obliged to do
without, the lack of which results in
the souring of the milk that is provid-
ed for some of the babies of the home
There are now in the institution six
young babies. 1t has occurred to
some of those interested in the home
that now in house cleaning time, a
good many women who are clearing
out their attlcS and store rooms, Will
be willing to give to the home the
baby buggieS that have survived the
infancy of their own children. The
carriages would be of great help to
the women at the home in making it
possible for the babies to be out of
doors, instead of being kept in the
Stuffy rooms of the house, especially
when their mothers are occupied at
outside work. The old fashioned
baby carriages. and not go-carts, of
course, are what is needed.
The home also needs chairs and
rugs that might be supplied from
those that are being replaced this
spring by new furniture in some of the
houses of the city.
The managers of the homie are do
ing the best work they can for the in
stitution, a meagre allowance of
money. They give a great deal of time
and effort in working for the interests
of the home and individually for the
girls who find a refuge there.
The Story OF Susie.
Two days before Easter the State
Journal published a story about Susie
and Susie's nameless child who live
at the CrittentOn Home On Easter
morning the lilies bloomed on the al
tars of Topeka churches, and the flow |
erS bfossOmed for Susie, too. The APP |
peal which asked for the price of an !
Easter lily, that a woman who had !
worked hard five years without pay, !
might have money of her own, re- |
ceived a response from this and other |
towns
rive minutes AFTER the paper was |
out, the first dollar of the fund was
handed in. From the following morn
ing to the middle of the next week, |
the fund grew. Two and a half dol
lars came from one family. Three |
bills came from the people of one Of |
the departments of the Santa Fe. |
Nearly all of the contributions were |
unaccompanied by the names of the
givers. Two dollars have been added |
to the fund lately and good spring
suit.
A KansassCity woman sent a check
to pay a modest stipend to Susie for
three months. and cash to the amount
of about eight dollars was sent direct
to the Home. A Topeka milliner went
the mother and the little girl, and
dresses and other garments were sent
20 both of them. Easter gifts of candy
and little chickens, such as all chill
dren delight in. were sent to the child,
who is uncommonly pretty little
girl of five.
The generosity that prompted the
gifts reached out to the other girls
of the home, who were astonished and
delighted to find themselves remem-
bered by the world outside.
1t is one of the rules of the home
that no one can be paid for services
there except the matron out of the
large enough to permit of hiring other
workers. The home has provided
shelter and the necessities of life for /
the woman and her baby, who other
wise would be homeless and helpless.
They need Susie, and she needs them;
so the fund that was contributed has +
been placed with the treasurer, who
will check it out to her in amounts /
that will meet her needs from time
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