New Britain Herald Newspaper, November 9, 1916, Page 9

EW BRITAIN DAILY HERALD, THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 09, 1916. COST OF LIVIN (BEING FELT HERE Charity Organization Sees Food | Prices Allecting the Poor At the monthly the Charity held last evening a very pleasing re- | meeting of the di- rectors of Organization Osborn. October this port was read by the agent, Miss Elsie | vear ! el ot 'shows that there were five more cases | than a year ago at this time due to | the fact that while there was le‘nl."; of Work at that time living expenses | were not so high. Some of the older | families have suffered by sickness | and have needed help to tide them | over. The organization was in touch , with 83 families during the month, | 22 of them being new. and expengled]‘ $162.78 for relief. | The report of the agent follow: To the Directors of the New Britain MISERABLE FROM STONACH TROUBLE Felt Wretched Until He Started To Take “Fruit-a-tives” 594 CAMPLAIN ST., MONTREAL. “For two years, I was a miserable sufferer from Rheumatism and Stomack Trouble. 1had frequent Dizzy Spells, and when I took food, felt wretched and sleepy. I suffered from Rheu- matism dreadfully, with pains in my back and joints, and my hands swollen. A friend advised “Fruit-a-tives’’ and from the outset, they did me good. After the first box, I felt I was gelting | well and I can truthfully say that “Fruit-a-tives” is the only medicine that helped me”. LOUIS LABRIE. 50c. a box, 6 for $2.50, trial size, 25¢c. Atall dealers or sent postpaid by Fruit- a-tives Limited, Ogdensburg, N.Y. , know them to be, there is little con- . Charity Organization: | “One man’s meat is another man’s | poison” go the old saying. And one man's prosperity sometimes | means another man's downfall, we find here in the Charity Organiza- | tion. Prosperous times that bring | increased revenue to many and send | the prices soaring, react in greater | hardships on those unable for on reason or another to take advantage of The times | If a man is ill and unable to work for a long period, it makes little difference to his hungry that his labor would now higher wages than ever before. i i u command | It | t is only the hisher prices of food that | Stranded people and those solation ness would receive good pay if he were liv- crea: widows day’s o | addition to caring properly for their | children the verge of starvation. { especially true when illness Shildren | OVer burdened. in her knowledge that busi- is booming and her husband ! As it is, prices are so high that were not a substantial in- in the amount of help those receive to eke out the few they are able to do in ng. f there work families would be on This is comes sorely their ipon a poor widow already These types of needy families are he only ones aside from the many needing | concern them. If a husband is in | €émerzency aid with whom we must ail for a period it is small comfort | concern ourselves at present. Cir- to-his wife to know that he might | cCumstances are such that when these bring home well filled pay envelopes families really are without resources these days if he would only work in- | they need far more generous aid stead of getting into mischief. She |than they would have required in the is chiefly concerned in providing for Dast. According to Mr. Redfleld, sec- her family with the prevailing high | Tetary of commerce, the cost of liv- prices. If a man or woman is old | Ing has increased 35 per cent. during and alone in the world it is useless { 1916 and naturally it is the small| to reflect that wages are higher than | Wage earners and the many families they used to be, so long as it is only | living just on the border line of inde- the increased cost of living that af- ; Pendence or already in need of some fects them. And if a woman is left | assistance, who suffer the most. a w'dow, penniless and with four, five, | Meat with the exception of an oc- six and even seven children, as we | casional soupbone, we find is out of the question in most of these families. Condensed .milk takes the place of fresh milk, flour is soaring, sugar is high, potatoes continue to advance, cereals are increasing in price, onions and beans and peas are double their former price and cabbages are scarce, | Thus many of the mainstays of a New Britain home of the poorer type have taken their places in the luxury class this winter so far as price is concerned with there being any lower priced substitutes for these staples. EASY TO DARKEN ! YOUR GRAY HAIR| Try this! Brush Sage Tea and Sulphur Compound through your hair, tak- N ing one strand at a time. When you darken your hair with Sage Tea and Sulphur, no one can tell, because it's done so naturally, so evenly. Preparing this mixture, | though, at home is mussy and trouble- | In looking over our lists of those some. For 50 cents you can buy at | Whom we have regularly aided or drug store the ready-to-use pre- | 2Sked someone else to aid during the paration, improved by the addition of ' Past weeks, we find that without ex- other ingredients, called “Wyeth's | Ception the families are fatherless, or | Sage and Sulp Compound.” You |the wage-earners in each Instance | st dampen a sponge or soft brush are ill at home or under treatment | with it and draw this through your in insane asylum or sanitarium. hair, taking one small strand at a Even with this proof it surprises time. By morning all gray hair dis- Some people that with industrial con- ppears, and, after another applica- W TR i G tion or two, your hair becomes beauti- any relief at all. They forget that fully darkened, glossy and luxuriant. We cannot supply. a job for missing Gray, faded hair,”though no dis- husbands, set tottering old people at grace, is a sign of old age, and as we labor or take a mother away from all desire a youthful and attractive her little children all day long in or- appearance, get busy at once with der to put her at steady work es- fWyeth's Sage and Sulphur Compound Ppecially without a Day Nursery in and look years younger. The ready- town. to-use preparation is a delightful toilet ' Our figures show five more new requisite and not a medicine. It is cases in October 1916 than in October frot intended for the cure, mitigation 1915, and we attribute this increase | r prevention of disease. largely to the fact that a year ago while there was already plenty of (work for everyone, living expenses You Want Good Bottled | were not so high. Moreover with | (the extra pull of illness some of our Beer, Wine or Liquors, 015 Timiics too. have been obliged Order Same from {to return for a little help to tide YECK them over emergencies. ILIP BARDECK, | - : | We think however that the many 85 Arch St. Phone 482-2 'nholiday lists of dinners and gifts sent ditions so favorable " Bicycle Tire Sale Saturday Only EVERY TIRE GUARANTEED Nonpareil Overland Thorn Proof .. .. Raritan Basket Tread ...... U. S. No. 77 Non-Skid . .. U. S. Heavy Service, white ...... U. S. Heavy Service, red U. S. Nobby . Bicycle Lamps, Oil, Gas, Electric. U. S. Tires. Cord, Nobby, Chain, Usco, Plain ——THE— Ailing Rubher Go. New Britain, Conn. i vou { schooldays should | mand on account of the times us for confidential comparison Wil show a falling off this year, and if they do. it will be a matter of satis- faction to all—to those who provide the charitable gifts, those who must usually spend hours comparing lists, and most of all those families who will be able to provide their own hol- iday cheer with sturdy independence of charity. Wo take advantage of the times whenever we can by securing better | paild work for any member of our families who is capable of doing more skilled labor than he has had- In this way we can shift many families up a peg in the working scale. We can find all the day’s work that any of the women on our long list can manage to do. and this also tends toward more comfortable living. We can find ten well paid positions for every girl who wants housework, and we can place anyone at work who has the least particle of strength or aptitude. It has amused us to see | some of our unambitious and entirely unskilled charity organization ac- quaintances, through the present pres- sure of industrial conditions actually forced in dismay to join the ranks of the toilers; the clamor for labor plus the good wages plus the hitherto fruitless urging of their home folks has finally proved too much for them. But there are still plenty of va- grants who have not been thus re- cruited and these must concect more and more ingenious tales to save themselves from toil. Most of them never appear, even when directed to us. And those who do present them- selves for alms we confess, receive short shrift these days. We name all the kinds of outdoor and indoor labor from which they can make a choice of work, and if this does not appeal to them we part without fur- ther ceremony. There are so many places waiting even for such as these that 1t has been impossible for us to find men to beat rugs ete., for house- wives this fall. Indeed one man who came to us recently obviously after a spree, had such a tempting array of offers set before him that we began to think as we named the places that the day of the common laborer had surely arrived. We have been in the habit of giv- ing some good advice to the young- sters in our Charty Organization fam- {1lies who have obtained work certi- ficates, and arc about to take a place- Among other things we have im- pressed it upon them that the more | that | learn the more you earn, last throughout every man one's life and that head will permit him to earn. But we are forced to admit that tempor- arily at least, laborers are in such de- that many a perfectly empty head is car- ried along at a higher price than this for the sake of the pair of strong arms under it. This of course is a condition of affairs that cannot pos- | sibly continue for long. This is the time if ever to test the | real truth of the statement that the | poor are with us always. Poverty will xist to a greater or lesser extent ac- cording to the prosperity of the times until some unfailingly successful w is found to combat the ignorance, improvidence, illness, intemperance and immorality which are the causes of poverty, and to substitute some other means than charity to support the aged, the widowed and the father- less. Our churches wage war constantly on drunkenness and immorality. Our schools combat ignorance by fine educational facilities and teaching of trades ,and in our experience the man or womau with a trade is prac- tically insured from any need of charity unless some wretched habit undermines the training. Our board of health fights the causes of illness down to the last ditch in making New CHESTNUT STREET RESIDENT SAYS THAT 1 HE RECEIVED WONDERFUL RESULTS FROM | THE FANMOUS REMEDY, LAX-A-TONE1 Mr. John Schweitzer, 391 Chestnut St., this city is only | one of the many indorsers of Herbal Lax-a-Tone. Mr. J. R. Martin the Lax-a-Tone expert at the Economy New England Drug Co., 365 Main St., says:—That many New Britain citizens are indorsing the new Herbal Tonic, Lax-a-Tone, and he is glad to refer as to the merits of | this remedy to your own friends and neighbors and wants the people of New | Britain to remember that he is going to use home people from now on. This | is something that is unheard of as a rule in advertised medicines as most of | them use outside testimonials. That Lax-a-Tone is a superior remedy for con- | stipation, sour acid stomach, bilious attacks, gas, bloat, nervousness and that all-tired-out run-down feeling will be attested to by your own friends and neighbors Sohweitzer, who says: “I have been a sufferer for a long time with malaria and one who has suffered from that trouble needs no introduction to the miserable symptoms. That tired-out feeling where you feel more dead than alive, no appetite and absolutely no ambition. To make a long story short, I have taken Herbal Lax-a-Tone and I find it an excellent remedy and am glad to recommend it. Such statements as the above are bound to carry weight and at least are convincing, so all sufferers from this malady and those suffering from indi- the use of Herbal Lax-a-Tone. St., where he is introducing this remedy to the New Britain public. the use of Herbal TAax-a-Tone. Mr. Martin says he today publishes the signed testimonial of Mr. | gestion and symptoms given in first paragraph will get excellent results with | The Lax-a-Tone man is at the Economy New England Drug Co., 365 Main to live in. And Connecticut may even take her stand some day with the twenty-one states which within the past four years have endeavored through legislation to secure for little children the personal care of a good mother by granting a system of Wi- dows pensions. But until each of these battles can be relied on to pro- be poverty to be dealt with. public officials, seven from socleties, three from schools, three duce an infallible victory, there will During thelast month we have had | 268 requests for our services; 13 from | private Britain the healthiest possible place |Continued cases New cases Including: Families Transients .............. Applications for work only record kept) Personal Service, Calls at office Consultants Applicants e s Visits by agents to or in behalf of families ... Calls by friendly worth $1.50 to $2.00 a day from his | | neck down, and as much more as his Business call Tclephone & callsih ittt Volunteer office work—hours . . { from churches, three from other | cities, 94 from interested individuals | and the remainder from applicants i themselves. Twenty-five of these ap- ! rlicants came for aid, twenty-seven | for clothing only, and the rest for | loans, carfare or better work. We! were in touch with 83 families during this time, twenty-two of which were new. There were 350 calls at our office, 145 from applicants, and 205 from in- terested people. 77 visits were made | hyv the agents, eight visits by volun- teers, 351 telephone interviews were | conducted and 15 1-2 hours of office Lelp was contributed by volunteers. Permanent work was secured for two and temporary places for five. Clothing was given to thirty-six, emer- gency help to nine and temporary weekly aid to eight more families. Pensions were given to two. $4.68 | was expended from the special shoe | fund. $49.84 from the treasurer's fund, $21.25 from the agent’s special funds and $87.01 was organized from outside sources, making a total of $162.78 for relief through the Charity Organization for October, 1916. Applications for Service From— Public officials Trivate societies . Churches ........... Interested individuals Other cities i g Applicants themselves For advice ..... For aid .... Tar clothing Yor loans ...... ! For friendly servi ffed . | For transportation ‘wFor Treatment, Families months or over Families receiving: Temporary aid Emergency aid ... Clothing o Institutional care Given legal aid 5 Given medical aid Given dental aid Given optical aid Work secured: Permanent ... Temporary Transportation receiving pensions | i | Causes of Poverty in New Cases. Unemployment Widowhood y Sickness or accident Trunkenness | Physical or mental handicap Insufficient income : Old age Shiftlessne: Vagrancy . Miscellancous ot Immorality ar crime .. . Desertion or non-support .. NoSwme M o o i e © © Material Relief. No. receiving aid during month, 17. Amount of aid from treasury i fund Amount of fund Total fund 1 No. far whom aid w: from churches, soceties, ete., 12. Amount organized aid amoun 71.09 organized Applicants. individuals, Total number during month | i i 87.01 The CurranDry Goods Go. OUR GREAT LOOM END SALE FRIDAY IS HOUSEKEEPERS’ DAY AT OUR STORE And during this Mill Price Sale we are making it very interesting for the housewife in the way of offering some extra values in linens, domestics, blankets, comfortables, bed spreads, sheets, pillow cases and a wonderful collection of important kitchen items, all designed to lessen labor, and at small cost. When you are in our store give the Bargain Basement a visi You will find it very interesting. Great stocks of all kinds of things are r y. Articl fresh from the fac- torics and all designed to lessen labor Here are a few of many hun- dreds of important items necessary in every kitchen. 50c and 89¢ white lined and sky blue Enamel Ware. Big as- 29 sortment for all uses. Mill price et [ 19c¢ Gray Enamel Ware assorted dishe: 9c Vegetable or Meat Presses, 25c¢ value. Mill price ........... l 5c Extra heavy Enamel Ware, white lined, large pieces, worth 49 69¢ to 98c. Mill price . . i (o Waste Baskets, fancy design: value. Mill price EXTRA VALUES IN BLANKETS. $3.50 Wool Nap Blankets. Mill price .. . $ 2.25 $2.50 Plaid Blankets, wool finished. Mill price . $5.00 Heavy Wool Blankets. Mill price ....... . $1.98 Crochet Bed Spreads, fringed. Mill prices .......... 1.39 Mercerized Table Covers, 89c value. Mill prices Full size bleached Bed Sheets, 75¢ value. Mill price .. Extra Large Huck Towels, 19c value. Mill price 0dd lot of manufacturer’s clean-up of Window Shades in odd lengths and colors, 50c and 79c quality. Mill price. . LAUNDRY SPECIALS. 39¢ 8 bars of Lenox Soap 7 bars of Bee Soap 6 packages Star Powder 6 packages Gold Dust Ironing Wax Stand Ironing Board with 6 dozen Clothes Pins for Housatonic on Saturday er proves pleasant. The already at the temporar: and two if the weath- shells boathouse, the Loans—Times; amount; refund ed, Special shoe fund for school chil- dren: Amount . No. aided thereby, are university first sophomore and the freshman, had a spin in them yesterday. The work was for the purpose of making the crews familiar with the course. No attempts at were made, these being reserved for next Satur- day, when there will be a number of trials between different crews the which will used for the races in the spring. i cre 1. first aid expended channels ....§$162.78 Total amount through C. O. ELI TO TEX speed T NEW COURSE. Yale Crews Will Row Over the Hou- satonic on Saturday. over New Haven, Nov. 9—Yale will try two-mile course, be out its new rowing course over the CONTINUING THE AWFUL STRUGGLE BY BRIGGS o4 MABEL! MY SYUDS- WHERE = ARG THEY' 7 \,{/// T 2) o (@A HUNTING FOR STUDS ON WITH THE SHIRT = CRY oF Pam GRAPPLING , WITH THE FRONT OF'SHIRT BREAKING OF sTUD