The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1916-12-15
Dividends Guaranteed in Con-
seriousness Of Helping the
Really Needy.
AID WILL PRESERVE HOMES
Associated Charities Recon-
mends Each of Fourteen
Cases as Deserving.
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the price of fifteen cigars, II may even
represent an actual self denial, and, IL
30. that much the better.
Here are the opportunities:
Opportunity No. Infringing the
children Home.
Two years ago when her husband
died leaving her without visible means
of support. Mrs. Y. saw nothing else
to do but to give up her four chill
dren, and go to work. After pulling
herself together she made a little
home FOR her two girls and left the
boys In an orphan asylum. The sep
sration OF the boys from their moth.
or was proving disastrous now they
are back home. One girl liz working
and the mother In trying to establi sh
herself In her old trade. To make
this experiment In home making
success Sl2 week or S62I Is needed
Tor the year.
Opportunity No. 2-keeping close
To Her Children.
A bricklaycr In the making. that IL
boy in the family wants to be. Thus
following I'm the footsteps or an uncle
who has been almost n father to him.
HIS own father deserted about five
years ago just. before the birth of his
baby brother. At first the children
were placed In asylums. but relatives,
friends. and the famiiy's church de.
cided that the mother and children
ought not to be separated, and the
home was re-estabtished. The moth.
ar II more than ordinarily particular
about her children. Every day when
the weather II good she takes walk
with them after school. Thus the
mother keeps close to them aud
dollars a week or $500 a year will be
required TO preserve home for this
FAMILY OF mother and four children.
Opportunity No. 3-A .ChiId's Pies.
cant you rent just one room and
take us to IL aud call Il hpme?'
pleaded ght.year.old Johnnie. The
father had brutnlly treated the moth
or and then deserted. No trace. or
him has since been found. Not know
her children to board IN an orphan
asylum and weU 20 work. Friends
heard the boys plea for IA home, and
now Johnnie and his brother are with
their mother, and are making good
progress at school. Their mother
works steadily but can not make
enough TO cover the whole family
budget Thirty dollars n month o.
$500 year IL NEEDED to answer John
MES plea,
"Aione / must try to make n home
for the children, do not want To- /
give them away" says this brave1
mother OF two boys and two RlrIs. the /
oldest ten years of age. All effort To 4
locat. the deserving husband has Z
failed: 81, Is Just as IL Sam w.r" /
dead" the wife said. So the mother I
loved ones by taking In sewing Thr
children are doing their best I" help
her. Even the rosycheeked boy or
four tidys up his playthings, To hclp
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garten. Several people have offered /
to adopt these attractive children, nut I
the mother only hugs them the closer .
and works the harder. Seven dollars /
mother To keep ON lighting FOR her
home.
Opportunity No. S-GheerfuI Optimist. .
Her husband long ~ In the les.
pital, Mrs. Jones, as we will call hcI, /
10 nghting against heavy odds, She
IL still an optimist and refuses Ia give .
up. She and her oldest daughter do .
laundry work and sewing AT home,
but then cannot make enough to sup .
port this household Of i've. The /
church IL cooperating. The mother I
needs an additional So a week or S2JO /
a year To meet expenses.
Opportunity No. 8-HesyIIy Handi.
capped. Hut Very Grateful
"Who would have believed that |
there were such good people In the
world?" In what this widow said when
told that she was Ia have "A weekly
pension. She Is partly blind and has
had To undergo several severe opera
lions. so she II only able 10 be a
home maker and not a bread winner.
There are fiye children in this home.
all OF school age. The Oldest boy Is .
making fine progress in school and
Will soon be able To assume part of
his mothers burdens Their little
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good cheer. Ten dollars a week or
$500 a year Is needed for this widowed
and partly blind mother with Ave
children to support.
Opportunity No. 5-AImost Ready 90
Ne the Bresd Winner.
II has been a hard struggle for this
family, "A blind father and four
motherless girls. In six months more
Martha will fnish her course at the
colored Vocational School. then she
can be the chief bread winner in the
family; meantime she In doing the
family sewing. The oldest daughter,
who has developed into an excep'
maker. and, In addition, takes in
washing, Three dollars a week for
six months or SIS Is needed.
Opportunity No. s-Home Vocational
Training.
Four little girls. the oldest eleven,
each with her daily task are sharing
the household ties OF mending. wash
Ing dishes, sweeping and doing err
rands while the mother is recovering
from serious operation. Besides
this, last summer the Children had a
little garden and planted vegetables
among the flowers. The garden was
a JOY not only to themselves but to
their ncighbors and the children did
all tho work. Their drunken father
has deserted, 4 warrant Is out for
his arrest, but thus far he has not
been found. The mother tries to earn
n little by sewing 50 far as her
strength permits. Her church is also
helping, but 81 in addition or $38i a
year is needed to give these children
the Invaluable care and training of
their home.
Opportunity No. s-FnmiIy Savings
Exhausted by Sickness.
Tho father died after a long illness,
which exhausted his savings Now
John, fifteen years of age, is prepar-
ing to take his fathers place. He is
learning a trade. Tom, the thirteen
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