Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1920-12-20
1888 YET NEEDED
IN SUBSCRIPTIONS
TO OPPORTUNITIES
Time Is Now Short in
Which to Bring Com
fort TO Unfortunate.
FIVE WIDOWED MOTHERS
HOLDING HOMES INTACT
Maternal Love Will Not Allow
Babe. to Be T1.ken
Away

WANTED: saG3.i2 with which 10
purchase happiness and cheer. re-
newed hofc and faith in humanity;
another chance for band of aged
and sick and unfortunate Wanted:
! Virginia TO give from it's heart a
p:tiance to save some tlir,y-five
children from the realization Of de-
spair. the pinch OF hunger. the
temptations OF utmost poverty.
! Wanted: Less than thousand dol
lars for the ten golden opportunities
Pc help fellow human beings. tas,inr
the dregs of the cup of life De-
pendent on the returns of The Times
i)ispatch's appeal 10 the public for
them. are forty-nine persons. Five
! WIDOWS. in every case struggling
against the buffcts OF the world. 10
mold together Il home that their
children, that their loved ones. may
Know the training. the slight COM
forts. OF mcager home. Battling
along in an unequal fight, with tho
goal far away and their only hone
OF victory the generosity of a public
that has never failed to take up the
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iroddcn and the weary.
Contributions Not Opcncd.
Contributions received to the FUND
ior the nine cases yet undersub-
scribcd yesterday were no, opened
and will he acknowledged tomorrow.
IT is five days until the children will
be put TO bed early so tha, they
VIII not disturb Santa Claus ON his
nocturnal visit. They will be
tucked warmly between the Sheets
ny loving parents who know thar
the ever Gracious Santa Claus Is
coming.
Everywhere night will fall on q
people thrilling with expectation for
the morrow = everyw here. perhaps
except in the homes of those
whose very faith in God has
been shaken by the awful reality OF
q losing fight against desperate odds
II Is to aid the mothers who may
KISS their little ones goodnight with
the realization that the homes O,
The little waits will be rudcly shat.
tered on Christmas Day that The
i!me5-D Dispatch agreed to sponso,
through lis news columns ten of the
most worthy cases which could bt
found by the Associated Charities.
Cases Nearly Complete.
I This has been done. The rctur,
has been more than liberal I'm,
sttll almost $1,000 is yet to he re.
ceived before the sums needed are
subscribed. In several OF the cases
only few dollars are Yet needed
~ case No. i-that OF waif of Tho
streets without Il homc-Sii.lo more
than needed has been received.
1t would be OF interest TO know
where the dollars which pour into
the fund for these cases come from
Associations. clubs. Sunday school
classes. clerks. mechanics, business
concerns. laborers. workmcn. bank
ers. are represented, and the fund is
II vast melting pot of the sympa,hies
OF the masses for those whose lot is
Just little harder than the donors.
FUNDS are needed worst for cns,s
no. and s. two OF the mos, pitifu)
instances brought to the attention nj
the public. The first is that OF n
! widow. with five children, the Oldest
o. which Is but ten years.
Ask Hut SIUU.
= -Four hundred dollars has bean
asked in this case. and s2l7.9O is still
needed. In the latter 1850 is asked
10 aid another widow who is striving
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