El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1917-09-12
PEEK into THE
RESCUE HOME
Where Homeless Little
Boys and Girls Are
Given Homes.
By MARTHA PATTERSON.

- Ut in Government Hill stands
the Rescue Home. white and
- hot in the sun. Everything
seems TO be quiet, but that is because
the children are in school Some one
is playing Silver Threads Among the
Gold" On the front porch a little girl
rocks a sleeping baby. The interior
OF the home is cool and comfortable
and beds are everywhere-nice. soft
looking beds with white spreads and
pillow cases with the words Jesus
Saves embroidered on them in blue.
Each single bed holds two. and the
floors Cand mattresses) accommodate
all who aren't lucky enough to
squeeze into a bed. The home was
made to house about %. and now there
are just 70 persons cared for there. Is
little babies, seven mothers and u
girls over Is years, a lot OF small boys
and girls, besides the five or six Of
ficers.
The Babies.
A large sunny sleeping porch is
where the little babies are kept and
looked after by two capable looking
Mexican nurses Eight sweet little
faces peek out between the bars On
the cribs-one pouts, another is sleepy
and the face Of one little golden head
is frightened with an adorable smile
These are the small "COsettes," but
unlike Veto Hugo's Cosette, they are
clean and in an atmosphere Of love in
the home. Also, unlike little Cosette. ]
they do not crawl under the table ]
when a visitor comes
Due to @Buy n Home Movement
In the back yard a few Of the chill .
dren are running around Also built I
in the yard is the hospital (thanks /
to the generosity Of some FL Paso /
mem. The hospital room was made I
especially for the sick, but, owing TO I
crowded conditions, II also serves as
sters are making sand houses in the ]
shade, and one small boy has con-
structed a home" for himself. from I
pieces Of leftover timber given by Mr..
McNary to the home. A board here
and there sufffces for walls and the /
over the top to keep the storms
out
I'VE have some Of the saddest cases
here I have ever known" said the cap
tain in charge There are four small
girls from one family. rescued in
recent raid made downtown. They
were brought to the home by the
police"
A few minutes later a little girl in
a pink apron offered this information:
you see that girl going downstairs
We'll, she's my sister. and them two
settin' on the table is my other two
sisters. I have a sister with another
lady and my brother is with man
She was undoubtedly one OF the little
1nfortunates found in the raid and
taken from a mother considered inca
oable Of rearing little ones.
Anna is another character-Wilu. 1g-
lorant. big hearted, kind, Is and full
1f fight" She is from the mountains
II northern New Mexico, and was
brought to the home by her father, an
unless Wanderer by trade School was
-epulsive TO Anna and II was only
through a sense Of gratitude that she
went at ali. I don't want to 60 TO
school, but II you say Il I got 10 go,
vii" she asserted Anna's viii Is
something that is her savior as vel as
her enemy. In her mountain days. she
became angry at her father over some
trivial thing jumped on her pony and
-eced him over the hills, until the
iorse dropped dead;
Everybody in the home loves noodles
nd every girl who can reach the
tove knows how TO make them-the J
most tempting noodles ever made
they cook other things. too, and IL IS
part Of the older girls training 10
earn to cook wholesome meals-po-
stoes, scallOped. baked, fried or boiled
-hev learn 10 crochet and embroider
.esides learning to sew the absolute
Each has her assigned J
uty-ons sweeps, one dusts, one
Ombs hair. etc
detectives have come TO get some girl
s witness in a case where her mother e
s charged with selling liquor TO SOL '