The Birmingham age-herald., 1921-01-16

S1TSdE object of the Neighborhood house
 is to provide a home life for chn-
 e dren whose mothers go out to work through the day. Thought many oi these children are old enough to be sen: to school, there are still the early and late hours of school days and Saturdays, when they would be alone at home, in danger from fires or other accidents, which might befall them, or playing on the streets, when their peris would be even greater. The Neighborhood House arranges to care for children and places competent persons in charge of them through these intermediate hours.
 The Northside Neighborhood house IS located at 1909 Eighteenth. street. north, and the very lovely and competent per son who has charge of it is Miss Kate Booker.
 Miss Booker is the daughter of the late Colonel Booker, who was well known fin Birmingham. She is a member of a fine old Alabama family, one of those families which are classed among the true aristocrats of the old south These are the people who make good in what ever field of endeavor they enter, be- cause of their strong realization of what is due from themselves; their spirit of "noblesse oblge.''
 It is a beautiful young niece of Miss Booker, Mrs. Nina Brown Casavant, for merly of Talladega, now of New York city. who recently entered the realm of moving pictures. meeting with marked success, and who has appeared here dur ing the past week in picture with Con- stance Talmadge. 1
 Miss Booker in telling of her work at Eeighborhood house and her preparation for 1t, says that having lost her mother as a young girl, she has always been the head of large family. and has hrnthpYC and GiS- ters.
 Her initial training in welfare work came through the Young Woman's Chris tian association, when by invitation of the late and beloved Mrs Maybell Sloss Taylor, she was appointed travellers aid at one of the railroad stations. Here she continued for five years, in the work of looking after women, especially young women and children, who were travelling through or entering Brming- ham.
 ''It is surprising," said Miss Booker. "how many people pass through the sta tions; shoppers school children and others, who with the travellers make hun- dreds every day. Here is place, with it's varying waves of humanity, where a woman welfare worker must learn to lay down the selfishness of life and be- come a sister indeed of one accord with the hearts of old and young"
 For time the Young Womans Chris tian association work at the stations was discontinued, and it was through Mrs. Clem Gazzum that Miss Booker has recently taken up the work at Neigh bcrhood house and is putting into prac- ticA1 use again, the knowledge which her life training has brought her.. Her fit- ness for this work has come through other work, as also her marvellous in : sight into life and her knowledge of what real service means.
 There are about A children of busy mothers, who come to Neighborhood house when the mothers go to work from 6:30 to S:S0 o'clock in the morning Many of these children must then be gotten ready for school, and the smaller ones must be made neat and sweet and sent with nurse to the kindergarten of the Church of the Advent. They are brought back at noon to be cared for until their mothers come for them.
 Many of the children have quaint and peculiar ways of expressing themselves, and are rather cruel to the English lau- guage, in it's use. To them the hours spent in association with a real gentle woman are as educational as those passed in school. iS
 "The children" said Miss Booker, "are provided with good, wholesome lunches, varied from day to day, but always fur nished with milk As sometimes happenS