The evening world. Newspaper, January 24, 1922, Page 8

CHILDREN OF THE ASYLUMS, PLACED IN PRIVATE HOMES, PROVED A BENEFICIAL PLAN MiSs MASSE BORET = CHILDREN Natural Home Life, Same as That Enjoyed by ' Other Children, Improves Them Physically and Mentally and Bears Out Adolph Lewi- sohn’s Argument Against Institutional Care. By Sophie Irene Loeb. What promises to be ‘one of the most progressive steps «ver taken in @he cause of the children was pr @ented to me in the work now b epnducted to secure private homes fer children—natural home life, against placing them in institutions through the work of Adolph Li @dhn, President of the Hebrew Shel- ing Guardian Society, and his as- @oclates, ’ ‘It will be remembered that a few days azo, in these columns, Mr, Lewi- @phn, who has built such excellent fastitutions on the cottage plan, us stated he was now of the belief that) the interests of the dependent child ate best conserved when the child! in be placed in a proper home and become a part of the community and that no more orphan asylums should be built. (Further, that only children requir- fag specialized care, such as delin- quents and deficient children, should be housed in institutions in the fu- ture. : ““Alteady 250 children have been placed in 160 good homes," said Her man W. Bloch, Chairman of the Board of Directors of the institution named “What we are hoping mainly ‘o do is to obviate the necessity of amy child going an institution,” said Mr. Bloch. ‘‘In other words, we -vans to prevent any more children x \‘ting nto institutions wherever it is possi- ble. While we cannot hope to empty the institutions that house these children, jor even our own, yet our | present efforts are directed to board- ing them out with people whe will give them the care and the environ- ment that the average home of the average child can give the child who is not a public charge “In this way the children become absorbed in. the population, — T [are just children like other children in a private home, with good fuster parents, and we are endeavoring to take such precautions as will insure the very best care that children can get.” I went over the whole work and studied some of the cases with Mrs Sylvan L. Stix, Chairman of Home Bureau, and Mary E. Boretz, WITH A GROOR | seemoasea THE EVENING WORLD, TUESDAY, JANUAN:r 94, 1922, line Secretary, who is in direct charge jof placing the children, All of these people are bending levery energy to secure such homes jas will give to every kiddie boarded out what he needs most—love and care Some of the cases that were shown to me were most inspiring. For in- | stance, a child who had Joint tubercu- |toxis, has been eared for in @ boarded- | out home and during the two years he | was in this home he was practically | cured and gained fifty-five pounds. Another, a little girl, who had serl- was placed in a heart trouble, who also had a little heart | trou and because of her own con- dition, naturally her sympathies went out to the child ‘the child was not permitted to overexerelse, and was otherwise given \Kindly consideration, and after three years ix reported as ‘doing splen- dtaly And tl a litte giel of five yents whe ather stupid: child 1 th ter mother the ehtid| he | this f r mother takes this child on ja visit to the real mother of the jenild in the hospital, the real mother in the country with some good |, ponded remarkably, and when | J fools grateful and says to the foster “At least 1K f anything hap-} pens to me, that will be @ friend to my little one, 2s you have been | to both of us | ‘Then there is the story of the Uttte | | | girl who was for five years in an in- | | stitution, and who has now been for | six months i a boarding home. The ‘father tells th y like this: ‘The home that my little girl is in is not so beautiful as the institution Jthat is, the furnishings are not sy | nice, and it is in a crowded section. |NO LONGER AN ANIMAL, BUT A. | NORMAL CHILD. “When 1 visited her in the institu. tion she was like an animal—dull liteless, slow. Hut now she is like a real human being and looks forward \to my coming. She is like any other | entid.” \ And «o 1 could go on and give ny, many instances of what has} n accomplished in this personal in-| st given to each child and what this home life means. “What is most needed now at es. We spend approximate: | « for each child,” said ‘and wish we could pay But if you were to see how| more huppy our children are, you would all | realize What @ great work it is, Of | course, most of the children are nor. | nial children, whose only trouble is | overty."* i © looked over the clothes furnished tu these foster mothers for the chil dren, Surely there is not an average family in the City of New York which | |could want any better, or of greater | variety, clothing “different.’” choose them, so that these children, | who go to public school, will feel that | they are individual children and look like all the other children. The work of securing homes is best stated in the words of Miss Boretz, who comes tn close touch with the mothers and the children, and whose offices are at No. 470 West 145th Street. | mothers who live in the suburbs, mak- jing appointments with them to give an entire day to our home-finder. The foster mother and home-finder wili spend the day visiting local people help us open a home tn their com- | munity. “When a home is recommended an the) application blank 1s provided for fos- | Besides the \ter parents to fill out. . Qpbesdsbeedeacrgre Pret tr irets og sayeas NO CREDITS BONWIT he EXTRAORDINARY _ANNOUNCEMENT To Close Out—Wednesday -WOMEN’S WINTER COATS, CAPES & WRAPS Reduced Absolutely Regardless of Former Selling Prices or Costs 45.00 68.00 96.00 125.00 UTILITY COATS AND CAPES of rough mixtures; many fur collared. DAYTIME COATS AND CAPES of warm, rich coat 4 textiles with beaver, wolf or caracul. AFTERNOON WRAPS AND COATS of the season's most luxurious textiles; magnificently fur trimmed. 30 Handsome Evening Wraps Reduced Regardless of Cost NO C. 0, D.'s TELLER & CO. FIFTH AVENUE AT 38™ STREET 165.00 the aim being to have the! The children | and the foster mothers are able to! ‘We have written to our foster! who might be interested and able to |~ questions of income, facilities, educa- tion, motive, &c., three references are required, After the application is re- turned to the office, the references are sent out. “Some of the homes of course aro immediately rejected upon the face of the application—poor environment, chronic illness, insufficient income. A few more are rejected after the refer ences are heard from. “The prospective homes ate then visited and an evatuation of the ho by the district visitor is provided. The foster mother is then asked to call at} fm and we have an additional the foster mother and some ier personality. “Another element to be taken into consideration is the living parent or parents of the child. The home must be such as would welcome the parent *o that parent and foster parent can co-operate for the child's well being. Therefore, prior to each placement the parent is also asked to call at the of- right child in each home is the advertisement in the corm munity for new homes, Again and again we are told ‘I never thought o/ taking children, but Mrs. B, has goc- ‘ NEW YORK | ten so much pleasure out of her little girl that I would also like to try.’ he best placement does not mean necessarily a bive-eyed blond. It means a child with whom a woman con show the best results, We all know that we have a large percentagu of children difficult to place, hand’. capped physically or mentally. FINDING RIGHT FOSTER MOTHER FOR EACH PROBLEM. “There i# many a foster mother} who is willing to undertake a diffi sul:) problem if you find the problem wit) | which she ean succeed. We mus tuke her into’our confidence and be} honest with her “Lay the problem before the forte: mother, @ runaway child subject to tontrums, and if she thinks she car lundle the problem, then with our help she js the most likely one to suc | coed “Co-operation must not limit itsct' | to the individual group. We are loon- lng for the day when we will get to |pether on an educational campaign, “We feel that we have only toucued the surface; that there are many more homes. Perhaps some will say that there are not; that through years of inco-ordinated effort we That Wi orkers May Work— With busy mills and shops, 1922 can be faced with sounder optimism than any year since 1913. The great body of workers at the I. Miller factories have been kept at steady production by the Sales now in progress at the I. Miller stores. Other merchants in this city are also making sacrifices in price to keep their men at work, and in this they are earning your loyal support and patronage. L MILLER. Creators and Manufacturers _ 0f Women's Shoes BROOKLYW nevertheless gotten most of the mate. rial in the community. There is only ene way to find out—by Joint action “The foster mother with an attrac- tive personality, human sympathien with a sense of honor and a stander of living which means physical wei’ being for the present members of her family, is the foundation of a ood home. Given this foundation, a hone rhould not be rejected, for the blrge. part of home-finding is home-makin. and liome-building.”’ M’CORMICKS GET HERE IN TIME FOR OPERA | Murtet to Continne Stady of Music and Drama During Stay. Harold . 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