Evening capital and Maryland gazette., 1916-01-17
CHILDREN PINCH SNUFF
ANOTHER QUEER CASE
From Across the Bay---Only One
of Poor Family Can Read Or
Write.
COME FROM EASTERN SHORE.
Federated Charities Workers Seek Aid
IN Effect 10 Establish Home for
Them.

Coming SO soon after the case OF
Grace Marshall, the child woman, i'm
prisoned for sixteen years in a small
room III house near st. Michaels by
her father and step-mother. the Eas
tern shore furnishes another remark
able case as told in the Baltimore
Sun as follows:
There are natives of the Eastern
Shore-that fount of hospitality bur
they haven't a home They live in
STATE Of compulsory school attendance
Law, but not father. mother nor the
nineteen and seventeen year old daugh
ters can read or write a word. nor dc
they know their A B C's. None of ths
younger children. except the fifteen
year-old boy, has ever been to school
Besides that the whole family take
snuff children and all.
The family went TO Baltimore
early in December. after the husband
and father had obtained job there
with one of the industrial plants that
is booming as the result OF war orders.
The mother ana seven children were
put out of their shabby home ON the
Shore and their few belongings taker
in payment of back rent
With the clothes they wore and the
snuh they pinched they arrived 81
Baltimore. Before long they came to
the attention of Geo. r.. McCleary and
George NJ Tucker. Of the homeless
mems department of the Federated
Charities. That they had no home and
no hope of getting one, with the mea-
gre wages of the father as their only
income, was soon discovered.
Several folks were interested in
them and the mans wages were in
creased. Clothes were provided for
the two daughters nineteen and sew
enteen years old-and Mr.. Tucker tried
to get positions for them Then the
ilIiteracy of the family came to light
The girls couldn't do factory work.
although intelligent and willing were
they, because they could neither read
the instructions. or mark up the record
of the finished work An effort is be-
ing now made to place the girls in
domestic service.
Social workers are especially in
terested in the family as showing the
harmful results of seasoned occupa-
pations, such as berry picking. can
merry, etc. The family has never had
home anywhere. They are tramps
An effort is being made now by the
Federated Charities to establish the
family in home of their own and in
still into them some backbone, indie
pendence and sense of responsibility
ITO this end an appeal has been ad-
dressed to Eastern Shoremen and 9th
ers asking for gifts of furniture ana
clothing to make the family present
able. No money is askd for. 1t is pro-
posed to move the family from furnish
ed rooms they are now occupying to
little four-room house, the rental of
which is low enough to bring i within
the scope of the fathers wages.
''The family, however. cannot buy
furniture at this time. 1t is believed
that somewhere in Baltimore's one
hundred thousand homes there are
kitchen stove, table and chairs, sit
ting-room carpet. couch, chairs and
table and furniture for the bedrooms
that charitable Baltimore folks will be
glad to send for this family If they
will communicate directly with the
Federated Charities, st. Paul street, ar
rangements will be made to have the
furniture called for and the donors
viii be kept informed of the progress
of the family.
Clothes for all members of the family
also are urgently needed. especially
for the boys of fifteen, nine and seven.
who are being started in school. The
fifteen-year old boy is unusually bright
and since people have been showing
an interest in helping him and his fam
lily he has been devoting each evening
to reading the Sunpaper TO his parents
and brothers and sisters and trying to
teach them some of the easy words
from the paper. He hasn't yet broken
up the snuff-taking habit, but even
shen,that may be accomplished in time