Democratic Sentinel, Volume 17, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1893 — PITIABLE SCENES. [ARTICLE]

PITIABLE SCENES.

Good Work of the Children’s Aid Society— Help It Along:. One of the most touching sights on the streets of Chicago is the too common one ot a poor woman with her little one in her arms, hungry, but unable to buy food, and without any prospect of work. The office of the Children’s Aid Society at room 510,167 Dearborn street, presented a few days ago, a much similar scene. A German woman carrying her little baby, applied for work. She could not speak a word of English, and while she sat waiting for an interpreter to come the tears rolled down her cheeks and fell on the baby’s little hands. No money, no work. It was the same story. During the month just passed thare wen more than fifty mothers

who were willing to go anywhere ii they could only find a home for themselves and their children. Many are able to cook excellently; some nave had homes of their own; all are anxious to provide against the winter soon to come and the suffering that otherwise must be their’s at that time. The Society is looking for families in the country needing domestics or second girls, and willing to take a woman with a child. High wages are not asked; only kindness and charity, in view of the needs of the servants, and a home, with its protection against the threatening winter.