The evening world., 1917-10-17

a pleasant place kept by pleasant
blue eyed woman who opened the
door for me.
r WISHED to see Just what sort OF
i home would be provided for
mother whose children board her out
so said was looking for accommo-
dations for a fictitious elderly rela-
tive-in-law whom I'VE wanted 10 nave
near us but not with us"
You will find that much more prac-
tical, I'm sure" said the manager OF
the home for mothers, encouragingly.
IT'S funny about your name." she
added, "a lady of the same name was
here Just half an hour ago looking for
n home for her mother. She said her
husband wouldn't have her mother In
the house any longer. That he said
he would take to drink unless she
went away. She wasn't certain she
could get the old lady to come here.
because her mother has some money
OF her own and can do as she likes.
"I have a lady upstairs who came
because her son-in-law would not
grandchildren, OF course, but she's
very sensible and does not care to be
where she is not wanted.
Then there is another old lady who
lived with her son till his wife got a
divorce from him. The father let the
mother have tho little boy and took
the little girl himself, and the father
and child and the grandmother went
TO board. But the grandmother and
the little girl couldn't get along, SO
the old lady boards with me now.
1T board dozen old ladies from
sixty to eighty-four. There are nine
with me. There Is a great need for
: a place like this You see when the
/ children get married, the in-laws do
not want the mother around. It's hu-
man nature; I've put every cent
have in this place. / like old ladies
and think there's more need of care
/ for them than for orphans. Orphans
, have a lot to look forward to, but an
!, old lady Is on the down grade. There
is nothing ahead for her. And OF
r course lots OF people think old ladies
live too long.
= HTN my advertisement said s25 per
month UP. But needn't tell you
there is no profit in boarding an old
lady at that price, even with three In
a room. I do It because 1t Is my work
: Ny best room with a private bath IL
I $50 a week with board. The old ladie,
that pay SIS a month are Government
e pensioners. widows of the Civil War
y who get a $50 pension. Some relativ,
pays the extra IS. have one old LADY
here who gave her life savings, 5000. Il
D get in home in Elizabeth. At the enc
OF two years the home had her com
mitted to an asylum for the insane
There was a clause In the contract
u which declared the agreement to care
for the old lady for life void IL she
became unbalanced. She was not un.
balanced but they got rid OF her tina,
!, way, and she could do nothing. Hei
r niece, who works in a department
= store In New York, pays her board
l here"
= Later I met the old lady who. dur.
= ing the day leaves her own small
= room on the third floor and sits In
e the sunny window OF the vacant best
n room. She was sitting there yester-
e day when ! went IN, plump, gray
n haired, an Ideal grandma. She wore
= two pairs OF spectacles, on her nose
Q a new pair, which she explained had
n proved very disapointinng as she
could not see a bit better than with
Q her old ones, All the old ladies sat
i alone in their rooms. l found them
TOO old to work, too old to read, toe
l old to do anything save to sit with
I folded hands and think Of the children
v who boarded them out.
n D ERHAPs they think OF the hours
d OF agony those children cost
them. OF sleepless, anxious nights
. when they nursed them through the
d illnesses OF babyhood, OF the clothes
{, they mended and washed. Perhaps