The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1916-07-21
FLAG RAISED AT
THEODORE HOME
Miss Glass Pays Visit to
Home for Mothers and
Children
A GREAT AID TO MANY
By Cornelia Glass


I
Yesterday I saw the flag-raising
exercises ut the Theodore home.
l did not know much about tho
Theodore home before that.
had always thought Of IT Just
as an institution"
| discovered that II was some
thing more than the ordinary I'm
stitution."
Theodore home IL In q big colo
NAL brick mansion. surrounded by
five acres OF rolling lawn. on 5bth
ave. n. n. There In a vide white
pillared ycranda In front, and II ~
filled from morning until night
with laughing children. dainty girls
and sturdy boys. ranging In age
from weeks 10 10 years.
Yesterday the children were all
white clad, with flowers In their
hands. and the lawns we're cover.
ed with townspeople who had come
90 nee the nag raising
Mas Mary Mitchell Is the moving
spirit OF the Theodore home. She
IN dark haired. bright-eyed WON
an. with AN exquisite charm.
Keep Mothers and Babes
I followed Miss Mitchell into one
room. where young woman was
dressing a curly cooling bit
OF fnaseulinity. In tiny pink bias.
ket beside her was another baby. a
giri 3 weeks old. She welcomed
me into her room with the poisc
she might have had In tho living
room OF her own home. Two
months ago she was deserted BY
her husband. and but for the Tneo.
dora home she and her children
might have starved A. Il IL. she
will remain there until she IL quite
strong again. and as long after she
begins TO work 40 she wishes.
We watched her playing with her
little son.
That IL the reason OF this home.
Miss Mitchell said. when We were
outside. 1T is TO keep mothers
and their children together--and %
make a woman look as happy az
that"
Nationality or age Is not eonsid.
cred. Need Ia the only thing that
counts.
There IL one little woman there
nov Who IL from Rumanla. She
can neither speak nor understand
word OF English. nor can her lat.
tie boy and girl The father was
iost several months ago IN rail.
road wreck. and because be could
not speak the language was unable
TO let him family hear from him.
Some way. Mise Mitchell found
him. and as soon as he is able TO
work again the family will be re.
united.
Several mothers came home from
work while we we're talking. Tx I
ed 10 watch them meet the guests.
There was none OF the awkward.
ness that such an occasion usually
brings. They were the hosiesses.
welcoming gueets into their own
homes, and they were proud to do
H.
Pay Some Of Salary
Tho mothers who work pay a per.
ccntage OF their weeks pay toward |
the maintenance OF the home. |
Those who cannot work are treated |
with exactly the same considera-
ton. and they help TO care for tho
children whose mothers are away. |
The ehildren's clothes are sup.
piled blythe fund of the home. by
the mothers themselves. and by
people who choose 20 give them. 4
but no child IL ever offered a gar.
mcnt which would make II look like Z
a charity child
The exercises yesterday were TO /
celebrate the raising OF big nag
donated by the Rainier ard Lady |
Stirling chapters OF the ID. A. II. ]
They we're in the form OF pageant |
depicting American history. aud ey.
cry child, German. English. French. |
RumRnian or American. pledged It,
self 10 the stars and gtrtnas