Evening star., 1928-12-17

stands how to make a chap happy.
Edward, his twin, is always conSiderate
and is forever planning something for
Johnnie'S amusement with the few
cents he picks up in helping his friends
on paper routes. Then there are the
two little girls, Grace, the IL year -old,
and 8-year-old Mildred. Johnnie has
a pleasant home, for mother hasla way
of making things look bright and cheer
full. But father has treated them all
shamefully and left mother to puzzle
over the problem of keeping her family
together. They need $23 a week, or
$1,196 year.
Amount asked for. or.............. $1,196
c. w. Co.. 3
sui neeQeQ. Q................. S1,lS1
Opportunity No. s.
For many months lively little Clara
showed the grit of a soldier through
interminable hours Of suffering. One
day she asked mother why daddy never
came to see her. Mother answered
softly that perhaps he would some day.
But he never did Now Clara is we'll
again and goes off to school each day.
Sometimes she wonders what is to be-
come of them now that daddy does not
help them any more. She knows that
some one must make money so that she
ami her three sisters will be able to go
on to school. She Is so afraid that
mother will have to go out to work, and
then what will they do?
With regular amount of $25 a week,
or 81 300 for the year. this little family
may be kept together.
Amount asked for. r.............. 81 300
"A. y. D, Jr....... $40
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Still needed. d................ $1,265
Opportunity No. 9.
Not many, no matter how unfor-
tunate, are. like little Martha, under
the double handicap of probably in
durable physical disability and extreme
poverty. Her mother. as the only
breaGwinner for her family of five chill
dren, works while all but Martha are
at school and devoteS her spare time to
giving to Martha the care which such
a child should have. But, after all, in
a mothers scheme of things, food and
clothing for her children must come
first. They need aid.
Sixteen dollars weekly or 1882 will
mean carrying out special plans for
Martha and make this home happy.
Amount asked for. r............ 1892
G. w. .................
Still needed. d.................. $827
Opportunity No. 10.
Six motherless children is usually
synonymous with broken home-that
t.,,&I 1A
quality of fathers devotion. With re-
markable perseverance and loyalty, this
young colored widoWer has gone for
ward, carrying his heavy burden. If
now that he has so nearly reached his
goal, help is refused him, the only 1lu-
ton in sight is an orphanage fc- the
children.
Just $12 weekly or 1924 for the year
will enable him to carry on,
Amount asked for. or............ 1924
Still needed. ............... 1923
Opportunity No. IL.
At night after the four little boys and
girls are abed, a young colored mother
sits before her cheerful fire and while
keeping her hands busy with the mend
ing for which the kindly neighbors pay
her, thinks back over the time few
months before when she lived her days
in terror and went to bed each night
praying for protection against a hus-
band half craZed by drink. She remem-
bers the suffering of the thinly clad,
shivering little children through those
days of cold, hunger and privation spent
in lonely little shanty and blesSeS
those who have aided her SO wonder
fully, who have given her hope and the
courage to seek and find part-time work
through their sympathy and under
standing. Then she reflects happily on
the daily progress of the children at
school and is glad because they take so
much interest in everything connected
with their Sunday school.
Can we after Salvaging another home
from disaster, thrust grateful mother
and her four children back into their
old, sordid existence, when $l1 a week
or $572 for the year will continue the
good already accomplished?
Amount asked for. r.............. $572
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Still needed. $571
Opportunity No. IL.
Left by her bigamist husband face to
face with the problem presented by her
eight small children, colored mother
has not allowed herself to become en-
bittered Although home-making Is Of
necessity her sole profession, she has
made great success of it. Each morn
ing George, John, Billy, Jane and Annie
all go off to school eagerly, faces shining
and their clothing spotlessly clean.