Evening Republican, Volume 23, Number 106, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — She Prayed for a Dishpan—Got It! [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

She Prayed for a Dishpan—Got It!

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story of how prayer brought a mudineeded dishpan to Major Jennie Ward, tho baloved bead of the Army’s famous Cherry Street Slum Settlement and Nursery on New York’s East Side. So much poverty and suffering existed in the neighborhood at the time that the Major and her helpers did not feel justified In taking even a slim dime to buy a new dishpan. Finally the Major and her assistants went down on their knees and prayed for a dishpan, just as they had prayed for guidance tn their work of relieving the distress about them. That evening, the Major set out with her tambourine to collect such money as she could on the streets and in the saloons thereabouts. In one of the “gia-miUa" was an utterly inebriated man with a large bundle. ' ■ "Here, shtahter," he mumbled, as the Major rattled tambourine before him, *T ain’t got no money, but yer-hle-wolcome to ylsh." “It was a fine big dishpan.” said tee Major the other day, as she reminisced about bar work of thirty years - - I

MAJOR JENNIE WARD.