Evening star., 1922-12-15
CHARITIES TO HELP
a D. c. FAMILIES
AN-Year-Round Christmas
Sought for Victims of
Misfortune.
WILL REMEMBER KlDDlES
Board Seeks Funds for Purchase of
Toys and Holiday
Cheer.
WILL REMEMBER KIDDIES

This is going to be a wonderful
Christmas for the kiddies. Washing
ton has decreed that no child in the
whole city shall go without having
its stocking well filled with toys.
candy and fruit. The family welfare
organizations of Washington rejoice
in the splendid outpouring of gen.
erous remembrance which leaves none
OF their families uncared for on
Christmas day. But there are 364
other days in the year. during which
social workers want to see the de-
pendent mothers and children SINH
larly remembered in the spirit of
happy giving
1t is for this Christmas all the year
Of the District Of Columbia presents
for the thirteenth season its fourteen
Christmas opportunities. These op-
portunities represent selected fami-
lies that are fairly typical Of many
others known to welfare workers, but
good degree of certainty over a full
period of twelve months. The time
will doubtless come when the Dis
trict of Columbia will line up with
the forty states of the Union in pro-
viding mothers allowances" for de-
pendent mothers. such as are repre-
sented in thirteen of these fourteen
opportunities.
&I3,O26 IL Needed.
When that time comes the private
charities of the city will still have
their hundred neediest families"
many of whom will not be eligible for
one reason or another for public
grants and many of whom represent
emergent and more or less temporary
needs. Whether that time be far off
or near. the present problem con-
fronting the Associated Charities is
to provide ample all-the-year-around
Christmas cheer for these fourteen
families, in which there are fifty
three children, only two of whom are
over sixteen; seven widows. four de-
serted wives, one invalid couple.
three old people and one hopelessly
ill man and wife. Could any appeal
be stronger at this Christmas season?
The total sum needed to keep these
fourteen homes sheltering seventeen
adults and .fifty-three children to-
gether for another year Is $13,026.
Fourteen Opportunities.
OPPORTUNITY NO. l: NoBoDTs
FAULT-JUST SHEER MISFOR-
TUNE. WIFE AND INVALID HUS-
BAND, SIX CHILDREN.
In a little six-room house with a front
yard, where masses Of flowers bloom all
summer long, lives this gentle childlike
woman whose nerves have never fully
recovered from an accident which oc-
CURED in girlhood. A devoted husband
protected her and cherished her until
illness deprived her of his care. He is
gradually growing worse at the hospi-
tai where he has been for more than a
year. There are six children, obedient
and sweet, all devoted to their mother.
Jane. the eldest, Is a quiet. studious girl.
who helps mother sew and clean. Sam
is a scout. the envy Of his younger
brother, because "he can see all the
parades." The pet Of the whole family
Is the baby. just fourteen months old.
Eighteen dollars week. or 1885 Tor the
year, in addition to what relatives are
doing, will keep the happy home to-
gether through 1928.
OPPORTUNITY NO. 2. EDUCATION
IN HOMEMAklNG AMI dEALVd.
WIDOW AND FOUR CHILDREN.
Education in homemaking and health.
this Is what the care Of the Associated
Charities has meant to this family.
Thrown upon her own responsibility by
the death of her husband from the ''fiu."
this mother was unprepared to assume
the headship Of her household. Now.
thanks to the instruction Of the society's
home economist, the two little girls are
becoming adopts with their needle and
the mother Is q much improved house.
keeper. One would hardly know the
delicate children Of q few months ago.
Specialists have corrected their physical
defects and the nutrition clinics have
brought them up to weight until they are
now sturdy and we'll. Twenty seven
dollars a week 10 needed for this widow
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