New Britain herald., 1918-12-03
EPIDEMIC LEAVES
CHILDREN ORPHANS
Connecticut Aid Society Seeks
Help for All Worthy Cases

every one different, every one a prob
lem in itself, the Children's Aid soci-
ETY. has been appealed to during this
last year, because Of illness or death
in the family; because of immortality,
domestic trouble intoxication, or other
causes.
Occasionally there comes to the So
ciety the mother with her baby, who
| cannot bear to think of parting from
the little fellow, but who must work
to support him and herself. 1t it seems
best, the society tries to find homo
where they may be togther, the moth
er assisting with general houSeWOrk,
or as a mothers helper. Besides pro-
viding a home for mother and child
this often, in these days of scarcityrof
domestic service, solves the problem
for the woman who cannot find a
maid
In every case the Children's Aid So
ctety, after carefully talking the mat
ter over with the parent and with
others most interested, has tried to
| make the plan that is to the greatest
advantage not only of the children,
but to the troubled mother or father.
Som etimes some other agency can help
in the particular emergency presented,
and the matter is turned over to them;
sometimes just kindly advice and di-
rection will straighten out this tam
gle; but very often the children for
whom the appeal is made genuinely
need the home and mothers care
which for some reason their own peo-
OIL Tag.
are placed in carefully selected family
homes where they may have the indi-
vidual care and attention that are
their right and a necessity to their
proper development. Many splendid
homes are now open to these children
but just now the demand for homes
is greater than the supply owing to
the tremendous pressure which the
present epidemic is bringing to bear.
The following is from q, letter re-
Gently received by the Connecticut
Children's Aid society
II have been Ill for a few weeks,
and have thought of 50 many little
ones left without parents, and if you
have small baby as young as pos
sible, will you let me know"
There ought to be fifty such letters
rather than one, for during the last
several weeks many, many young
sters, from the twins, three days old,
to Concetta, eight years old have
come to Children's Aid for care. Dur
ing the year just past, under fairly
normal conditions, sos children have
come to the attention of the society.
The only places to which these chill
dren may go, are the homes of Con-
necticut's citizens for the society main
n ~ Ioa
Home for Crippled Children at New
ington. 1t believes that the normal
child can best be cared for in a pri-
waite home where there are the advan-
tages of family life such as it should
have had with it's own parents. At
present, the society is caring for over
! two hundred children in this way. In
order to furnish this type Of care,
an appeal must be made to the child
loving people of Connecticut to open
their doors.
Every institution is over-crowded
and most are closed to newcomers be-
cause of the epidemic. And there are
at least ten lovely, cuddley babies of
year or under, who are desperately
in need of homes. For instance, q
worried anxious woman came into the
Office few days ago, carrying the
plumpest, sweetest bit of year-old
babyhood that ever was. The woman
| was Teddy's aunt, and just three days
before she had been summoned by
! telegram from her work at a naval
j hospital to a town in the southern
part Of the state, to find her widowed
sister dead. and Teddy absolutely
| alone in the world except for her.
| Now her furlough was almost over
| and her repeated visits to institutions
! throughout the state had been in vain.
! In desperation, late in the afternoon,
! she came to the Children's Aid saw
ing that she must return to her. work
! in the morning and there was no place
| for Teddy. 1t was found, upon a doc
! tors examination that he had a very
| slight attack of influenza and was ia
ken to the hospital. Now he is en-
! tirely recovered, and for many days
/ has been waiting for a. new mother
| some woman who will love him as he
| deserves, and give him the care that
| Is his right, in return for the board
which the Children's Aid will pay.
Teddy is only one. There are so
| many others who need a mother Just
now!
Are there not many women In the
| state lonely, perhaps for their own
| ungsters who have all grown up
! and left home, some of them, perhaps,
| to go into the service Of their country?
| Or others who have known the keen
| ness of loss in their own or Il friends
| home, and for that reason can appre-
| ciate the need of these youngsters.
The Connecticut Childrens Aid So
| ciety, Brown-Thomson building, Hart
| ford, will be glad to hear from any
| one who would consider taking one
| of these little ones.