Evening Star Newspaper, December 16, 1927, Page 16

16 *+ NEEDY FAMILIES APPEAL FOR HELP Associated Charities Lists 14 Opportunities for Gift Givers. (Continued from First Page.) along on 50 cents a day. Net much of a Christmas in this home. The husband and father is in Jail. He didn’t give them anything for sup- port and had them cowed with ter by his threats. The children are under-nouris re under medical care. One was nearly killed recently in a street accident. The mother is going to get a_job as soon as she can leave the childven. This Three famiiy needs $23 a week, or a total of | §1.196 for the year. Cares for Six Children. Here is another case. Mr. C. is a colored man, 30 years old, whose wife died during the year, leaving him with six children, all under 10. He could put these children in an institution of some kind—but he isn’t that sort of a fellow. He is not a skilled work- marn and he must stay up nearly all an | netgh! would saxe expense, but this was hard. ly suitable work for a girl of 14. Twenty-three dollars a week is asked for, or $1,196 for the year, so that the man can continue his treatment at the hospital without worrying over financial matters at home. OPPORTUNITY NO. 6. Forsaken by her husband, thie voung mother was left with two little children to care for. She is facing the future bravely and is anxious as soon as. Billy, the younger, is old enough to enter kindergarten. to find | part time employment by which she can contribute to_the support of her two little ones. Following an illness, this woman is regaining hev strength and courage. Her troubles have only zerved to increase her sympathy for other folks whose plight seems worse than her own. When one of her neighbors recently fell ill and was obliged to go to the hospital. thereby leaving her own children without a caretaker, this mother picked up her kiddies and moved over to her hor's home, to stay there until [ matters could he adjusted. Bighteen | dollars a week is needed to keep this | home together, or §936 for the next | year. OPPORTUNITY No. 7. Many songs and stories have been | written of mother love, but less often | of the sacrifices and_devotion of a father for his family. Mr. C., a colored man 30 years of age, left a widower. would rather die than see his six moth- erless children, all under 10, separated. A relative, who is herself handicapped, manages to give the children the care necessary during the day, but as wage earner by day and mother by night the father is now broken in health and able to earn only half the amount by night caring for the little ones. He will not see them separated. His | health is broken down, but he works on. He has to spend all his Sundays | in bed to gather strength for the week's struggle before him. | He needs $16 a week, or $832 during the year, to keep his family together. Chudren have a particular grip on the heart at Christmastide. | all, the depths of suffering are not for | them., They know poverty, but not de- | spair. It is age that feels most keenly the sorrow of the present and horror of the future. Take the couple with a small home who are going down the other side of life—with no income and mot able to work steadily. It is seldom now, that either of them finds a job Which brings in money. They have one room which they sublet. It isn’t much of a room. When they get a lodger, more often than not he disappears without paying. Not infrequently they go to bed without dinner. $10 a Week Needed. Ten dollars a week, added to the small amounts they can earn them- selves, will see them through the year. These cases are taken at random from the list "of 14 opportunities selected from hundreds of worthy cases by the Associated Charities as the most deserving of help this year. There are 61 children in 13 of these families. Three of them are less than 1 year of age and 35 are below the compulsory school attendance age. Only one child is over 14, and he is too.fll to work. The requirements of each family have been carefully budgeted. Noth- ing !s asked that they do not abso- lutely need. The total amount asked is $15,080, which should be raised easily before Christmas. Contributions may be sent to the Associated Charities, 1022 Eleventh street, or to The Evening Star. Opportunities Listed. Here the opportunities are, as out- lined by the Associated Charities: OPPORTUNITY No. 1. “I.am helpless now, but I'll soon be able to help myself.” This is what she says as she faces the future with four little children, the youngest a tiny infant. Last Christmas the outlook seemed bright. Her husband, apparently strong. was providing for wife and children. But his recent death has darkened the prospects. Even this does not daunt the courage- ous mother, who is sure she can “make the grade” if she has a little help to start. The father was a hard working man, who always took good care of his family. He failed to heed the warnings of “that tired feeling” and a cough, so that the white plague claimed another victim. Eighteen dollars a week. or $936 for the coming year, will do much to place this young widow on the way to self support. OPPORTUNITY No. Seven children are 2 heavy responsi- bility for a woman married to 2 man who has repeatedly sidestepped his obligations to his family. After stand- ing by her husband through many hardships and for many years the mother has now decided that her first duty is to her children. The oldest of these is a boy 14 and the youngest is 4 The former has a permit to work out of school hours, but he earns hardly more than enough to clothe himself. He is attending the Voca- tional School, where he is taking a course which will lead to an ap- prenticeship at a profitable trade, if all goes well, But this is in the future. Meantime, one of the other six chil- dren presents a serious health prob- lem and requires special diet and care. Thirty dollars a week is the least that will properly support this family of eight and give them nourishing food and other necessities, or $1,300 for the next 12 months. OPPORTUNITY No. 3. ‘The approach of Christmas finds the father of this family in the hos- pital. He has already endured months of fllness. Now it is impossible to say whether the future will bring partial recovery or release. As long as he was able to work the man took excellent care of his wife and children. When he broke down his emplover held his job open for him and his fellow employes contributed as long as they were able. There are six children, including an infant| in arms. Just as the oldest left school and was ready to go to work he met with a serious accident. He is only now recovering from pneu- monia. Notwithstanding family m! fortunes, the mother, a splendid man- | ager, maintains her optimism in spite of discouragement. Thirty dollars a week is the minimum budget which will maintain the health and well being of this household. This is $1,560 for the year. OPPORTUNITY No. 4. “I'd rather earn it myself,” she says, when offered outside assistance. And this mother, with five children to care for, ranging in age from 5 months o 5 years, could easily make a living for her family if she were free to do s0. For she is a trained professional worker. But what, meantime, would become of her babies, who demand her best care and training? Her husband, in a reckless moment, | committed a serious offense, for which he is now paying the penalty. But his wife still has impiicit faith in him and is trying to keep the home to- gether until he returns, a chastened and better man. The superintendent of the institution where the man is now learning a trade says the man is . Boing to make good. Meantime, $22 2 week is needed over and above what the church and friends can contribute, or $1,144 for the coming year. OPPORTUNITY No. 5. Sickness has turned the land of promise into a land of denial for this foreign family. The father and moth- er with their three bright children ‘had great expectations for the future in this land of their adoption. But jliness, the great white plague, has suddenly dissipated their high hopes and has prevented the father from continuing_to support his «wife and children. The mother is too frail for more than home duties. The three children are well and strong. The old- est daughter is looking forward to the s But, after | °F necessary to cover his family’s ex- The greater part of Sundays pends in bed in order that he may be able to muster sufficient strength “carry on” during the ensuing ssociated Charities has nt the wages of thie ither and each morning the run to the door to see if the milk has arrived and clap their hands in glee on finding it. $16 a week, or | 832 for the coming year is asked to save this loyal father from a complete breakdown. OPPORTUNITY No. 8. Can a_mother and her four children THE -EVENING still come their way. But this is sel- dom. They try to meet their rent in part by subletting, a room, but satls- factory paying lodgers for the modest quarters they have to offer are hard to find. $10 a week will go'far toward meet- ing the humble .needs of this aged hus- band and wife, and will assure them mutual compantonship in the evening of life. $520 is asked for the next year. . $2,000 IN RUMMAGE SALE. Receipts Reported for Maintaining Clinic at Children’s Hospital. Nearly §2,000 was cleared from the rupmage sale held by the Child Wel- fare Society last week, Mrs. Breckin- ridge Long, chairman of the sale com- mittee, announced at the regul meeting of that organization vester About of this amount w reported by Mrs. Arthui O'Brien, who conducted a lunchroom in connection with the Proceeds will be used to support the clinic maintained by the society at Children's Hospital s Caroline Sweeney. nurs arge of the clinic tendance of 864 i past month, s the same period of 1926. Nurses made more than 400 visits to homes during the past month, she reported. Twelve nutrition classes, which are held each Saturday morning and Monday after- noon, to instruct mothers in proper feeding of children, were attended by 534 women during the past month, Miss Sweeney state® ACTRESS SUES MATE. NEW YORK, December 16 (4).—On allegations of cruelty, which included charges that she had been threatened with a carving knife and hit with a plate of has brou Thomas G. Donov granite produce in , New Hampshire STAR, WABHINGTON 24 LAKE STEAMERS BLOCKADED BY ICE Only Exit to Huron Closed When Vessel, Attempting to Cut .Lane, Is Jammed. By the Associated Press. SAULT STE. MARIE, Mich., ‘De- cember 16.—The . only - exit to Lake Huron for the 24 ships of the Sault ice brockade was closed last night when the steamer’ Hamonic became stuck fast -in the ice in the middle Neebish Channel while attempting to ¢ {cut a lane through the channel. The 24 ships, manned by 600 men and carrying grain cargoc: with a total estimated value of = 57.000,00, now face the prospect of heing ice: bound for the Winter, X large tugs for three days failed fn attempts to break- the ice and free the stranded | boats, and' the James B. Eades, which | made a heroic effort to cut through the downbound channel, is fast in the ice. * The Eades is reported leaking forward as a vesult of having hit a submerged ‘object. The Hamonie in attempting to open a passageway through the upbound channel was stopped by six-inch_ice. \With .zero temperatures prevailing and a .gale blowing it' was expected that the ice jam would become more solid. DYE AGREEMENT SIGNED. BERLIN, December 16 (#).—An reement between the German dye and the French v has been signed at Frankfort- |am-Main. A communique will be tssued tomorrow. tru chemical in- live on 50 cents a day? This is what this family receives while the father labors at the workhouse where he was sentenced for non-support and threats of violence against his wife and chil- dren. He will be there a vear, and for that time, the family is no longer terrorized. The children show the effects of long deprivation and under- teeding. Three of them are under medical care, one of them having been almost killed in a street accident. The mother is prepared to do her full share if given a chance, for she has good standards, is industrious and lives for her children. $23 a week is needed over and above the District non-sup- port allowance, if this family of five is to have proper food, clothing and shelter, or a total of $1,196 for the coming year. OPPORTUNITY No. 9. Matters have grown so, desperate that Mrs. K. says she cannot stand the strain much longer. Even Mabel, the eldest child, is aging, sharing her mother’s worries for her younger brothers and sisters. The only solr- tion Mrs. K. sees is to place her five children, whose ages range from 6 to 14, in orphan asylums. The mother works hard to earn while the children are at school. -She is an excellent man- ager and makes the most of her lim- ited resources. Mr. K. has been or- dered by the court to pay $12 a waek toward the support of his children, but he has disappeared. Those who know the wife respect her highly and insist that she should not be compelled to part -with her children when $15 a week above her own earnings, or $780 for the year, will help solve her finan- clal problems. OPPORTUNITY No. 10. "This home is sparcely furnished, but immaculately clean. Its whole appear- ance reflects the quiet taste as well as the self-sacrifice of a devoted mother. The best evidence of its character, however, is not in the mother’s ability to make the most of her small posses- sions, but in the up-bringing of her three bright and beautifully-mannered children. For each of them an ex- pressed wish on the mother's part is the equivalent of a command. The oldest is but 9 and the youngest 5. The father is serving time for bigamy and the wife hopes soon to be granted her divorce. She earns a little by home sewing, but $24 a week still is needed to complete the mother's modest bud- get, or $1,248 for the year. OPPORTUNITY No. 11. ‘Thomas, a colored lad of only 6, and his _little sister, 5, walk two miles to and from school every day. During the Winter months, the mother goes half way to meet them on their return to see them safely by a lonely stretch of woods and it is nearly dark when they reach home. This home is bar- ren, but always kept immaculate. It is on the outskirts of the District where this mother lives because of the cheaper rent and where she can go to the woods to cut her own fuel. There are also two children too young to go to school. The mother was obliged to separate from her husband because of cruelty. Juvenile Court have been trying to lo- cate the man for oyer a year, but without success. Besides what the mother can earn by day's work when she is able to leave the children or find a rieighbor to care for them, $16 a week is asked for the family, or $832 for the coming year. OPPORTU! /1% Sickness, which in the experience of the Associated Charities accounts s0 often for dependency, plays the leading role in this family of father, mother and four children, the eldest but 12 years of age. The father has long been on the verge of a nervous breakdown. He was obliged to give up his work for a while on this ac- count. He is now employed again, but as his work is seasonal and his health precarious he cannot earn enough throughout the year to pro- vide for the needs of his family, par- ticularly in view of the fact that every member, except the baby, needs physical attention. Two of the children made marked gains at the Children's Health Camp last Summer, showing what can be accomplished for them under a proper health program. - The visitor, - who knows the situation, says ‘“there seem to be real possibilities for de- velopment in this famil Twenty dollars a week is needed for the task m hand, in addition to what the man earns when he has work. This is $1,040 for the year. OPPORTUNITY No. 13. Is No. 13 always an unlucky one? we hope that in this case it will prove a fortunate designation for a most unfortunate colored mother, who has suddenly awakened to the fact that her eight children, whose ages range from 1 to 12, have no legal father. Living in good faith with the man whom she thought she had mlar- ried in 1914, this conscientious woman discovers that the father of her chil- dren has a wife living from whom he has never been legally separated. Pro- cedure for the annulment of the false marriage has been instituted. 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