The Telegraph-courier. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1888-1946, 1923-08-23
SERVICE HOUSE
IS GROWING UP
roup of City and County
Workers Find Plenty to
Do in New Home.
LIND GIRL HELPS

This morning the door-bell rang at
corner house at Market and CON
ass streets, which bears the an
.intion. Social Service House. AT
door stood small boy, whose nome
in Monmouth, Wis The lao was
st picked up as runaway, kept a.
detention home, farmed out anu
entua1lv returned to his home.
"Why, hullo,' said woman at ene
or. "you back again z"
The bow had responded to his runa-
v instinct again, but tins time ne
d not waited to get picked up pu1
asented himself at the door OF the
rvice home, to be realt with as
probation officer there saw III.
il was only one of the many IN
noes where persons taken in by one
the cooperating officers az the
vice house has liked the place SO
II that a return visit has been made.
Three Groups Cooperate.
The house is an old one badly IN
ed of renovation when taken over
service home In the few months
ice the home has been running as
institution, a transformation mas
on made, and the place looks like
real home. On the first floor and
the left as you enter is the office
+ the policewoman, Mrs. Beulah NC
tel and there as one enters, great
owl of yellow calendulas greets one
18th the sunshine warmth of color.
IN the same floor and next door are
he offices of the service league, dl-
ected by Miss Elizabeth Timme, and
,eyond a waiting room for the many
,isitors who come with their Difficult
les for the solution of the service
eague. the police service representa-
i've or the probation officer.
Upstairs in two pleasant offices
ronting the street are the quarters
Vt Miss Sybil Campbell, probation Of
icer of the county, and just behind
re the living quarters of Mrs. Won
Valid ands her blind daughter, Sadie
yon VALID.
Blind Girl a Blithe Spirit.
The blind girl is the central spirit
If the house, all of the service league
women insist, holding that it is her
;pirit which inspires them all. Rob
,ed Of the most precious gift of sight
his young woman shows marvellous
,pirit of mingled independence and
lelp toward others. She is able TO
are for herself, keep the house in
immaculate order, and find time to
counsel and assist the many waits
nd derelicts who find their way to,
he doors of the dwelling and some
ines are taken care of in the Won
Valid family. She scrubs the floors
r plays a sonata at the piano or
erves a meal, and never for mo-
tent talks about or dwells upon the
ondition which has shut off from
er all the wealth of color of the
5orld. She is totally blind.
Meanwhile the other members of
he household, Miss Timme, Miss
campbell and Mrs. Mcneil work to-
ether likewise in the spirit of SER
ice.
often needs that are brought to
he attention of one of these work
RS can be supplied by one of the
theirs As an example of this, diff
icult case was brought to the at
ention of the police service repre-
entative on Monday which was only
olved with the help of the service
sague.
A young woman sent for Mrs. Nc
Tell and when the police woman ar
ived she found that the case was
ne requiring care at a hospital. The
'irl was suffering with heart trouble,
here was no money in the house to
ay for the services of physician and
he home, with the noisy children,
nd nearby noisy trains was the worst
possible environment for the suffer
nc patient who had just recovered
rom siege of diphtheria.
Mrs. Mcneil connected with Miss
Timme of the Service League and
learned that the league had a bed
FOR such cases at st. GATHERINGS hos
oital Within an hour the patient had
been removed to the hospital and safe
and snug in the tender hands of the
Dominican sisters and their attendant
nurses.