The Birmingham age-herald., 1920-11-21

| from the place where her husband for merly worked. and being clever baker, she started out fixing up .hc kind of lunches she knew men would like at the noon hour Soon every enc of the SC men were buying soup and sandwiches, and the reputation of those little individual pies spread abroad in that western city.
 The end of the story, or rather tho beginning, where one little family lived happily ever afterward, is that the tinsy lunch room is a big lunch room now, with a capable business woman at the head of it, who remembers the day when ! she was ready to take the life that the Salvation Army restired, by restoring self-confidence and self-respect
 HOME SERVICE FUND This is some or the aork our relief station does with money from the home service fund.- Mrs. Simonson said. "In more families than you suspect, though the father is earning to his fullest ca pacity. the wage he earns is entirely inadequate to support large family. find in instances of this kind, that the rent is paid, and the fuel bill is paid,
 but that often the mother and children
 are suffering from insufficient clothing.
 especially during the cold months, and from lack of nourishing food
 Then of course there are always the shiftless poor who need help in learn ing to manage and use what they have to advantage; the ambitionless poor who need to be encouraged as they are taught to work, and often the sick who cannot afford the care of a physician Sometimes there are other troubles our relief station can help to solve," the superintendent of relief continued. II i have seen many instances in which we | have been able to offer some little per- l cnna1 adx or Svnnathy that Is neceS-
 sary for the restoration of individual happiness, and perhaps that of a family.
 I Sometimes we find that we can teach mothers the right way to care for their | babies, and how to keep clean, inviting
 home. and prepare wholesome food for 1 their families.
 "When our work is established here, our visitors will go unto the homes of the poor, and report coalitions there. Usually We do not wear the uniforms when we make these visits, because these look official, as though we had been sent We prefer to be received as friends, be- cause this relationship helps us to be of more real ea~'''re to family. CHRISTMAS CHEER
 "I was never so happy as last Christi mas in Indianapolis, when our relief station distributed new, warm garments l to nearly 1000 little thinly clad children whose names and ages, and sizes we knew" said Mrs. Simonson. At this time we provided Christmas dinner for approximately 800 families.
 :! Tn early fall one business man of In dianapols sent us a check for $1,0oO, to l be used in clothing for children. and one packing house sent five two-ton trucks loaded with canned goods with which we helped feed the hungry during an entire winter. While the cans were slightly bent, or marred in some way. 1, the contents were as good as any sold | on the market.
 "Our Salvation Army kettles, seen on 1 the streets of Birnin gham every Christ mas add to our home service fund" re- minded the superintendent "The re- turns from these help wonderfully in giving practical and happy surprises to
 many needy families Christmas morn | ing.
 INVITATION "We want the people of Birmingham l to feel free to call on our relief office 1 for any kind of assistance we are able l to render after the first of December" :" Mrs Simonson invited graciously. Wherever there is a case of need we regard that, irrespective of personality. You know the reason the Salvation Army does this?" inquired the gentle woman who is to superintend relief work in Birmingham. Tt is because this is our religion. Being followers of Christ, we wish ours to be the living religion He practised. as we walk in the footsteps of Him who went about doing good. ,