iation for Improving the Condition of the Poor |
| aims to cooeperate with school-teachers in every part of Manhattan |
| and The Bronx to insure comfort and prevent suffering among school |
| children, their parents, and younger brothers and sisters. On one |
| day last winter we received appeals from school principals and |
| teachers in behalf of twenty-nine families. Within six hours every |
| family was visited, emergent aid in food and coal provided for |
| many, and orders given for shoes and dresses and coats required by |
| the children of school age. During the winter we gave not only |
| clothing, groceries, food, and rent, but found work for older boys |
| and parents, taught mothers to prepare food properly, and sent a |
| visiting cleaner to make sick mothers comfortable and to get the |
| children ready for school. |
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| In a word, we followed that need, the surface evidence of which |
| comes to the attention of the teacher, back into the home and its |
| conditions, aiding throughout the period when the family was |
| unable to do justice by the school child. |
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| In many instances the home income was sufficient, but the home |
| management inefficient. Probably such homes could be more |
| effectively benefited through educational work emanating directly |
| from the school. |
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| We can be reached by telephone (348, 349, and 1873 Gramercy) from |
| 9 A.M. to 12 M. Letters or postal cards should be addressed to |
| Mrs. H. Ingram, Superintendent, 105 East 22d Street. Reference |
| slips will be gladly furnished upon application. |
| |
| The New York Association for Improving |
| 1843 * the Condition of the Poor * 1905 |
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| =Teachers of Manhattan and The Bronx= |
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| _Do you know of such children a