THE DAY NURSERY IN OGDEN, Once more we must tip our hat to the women of the Martha society of Ogden. The members of that organisation organi-sation are Indefatigable workers In the direction of aiding famllleB In dls tress, centering their efforts on women wom-en and children In need of helping hands. Starting with general charity work, the society has been laboring to extend its assistance in a manner to relieve those who are heavily burdened bur-dened and at the same time make the objects of their kindly acts self dependent. The most promlslne move of this nature Is the establishing of a day nursery at 2622 Madison avenue, where mothers, who are compelled com-pelled to support their families, may leave their children during the working work-ing hours, and be assured that the little ones will be properly cared for That Is In line with the enactment of the last legislature which provides a pension for mothers who are the 6ole support of their children. This Is a practical application of charity In Its best and broadest form in some respects, the day nursery pro-vides pro-vides a better solution of this problem of overburdened mothers than the penelon law, as the mother, freed from the responsibilities of home during the work-day, has presented to her the possibility of eventually getting beyond be-yond the need of outside assistance, and there comes the consoling thought that her struggle Is not In vain. A hope for better conditions is born, pride is aroused and life Is made-worth made-worth living The Martha society, by establishing establish-ing the day nursery, proves that the women have most advanced ideas. John Temple Graves tolls of the tragedies of city life, in which heart-aches, heart-aches, poverty, sickness and death go unheeded because no one has any concern con-cern as to his next door neighbor We reproduce his recital to Illustrate that Inhumanity, which Is the antithesis anti-thesis of the loving devotion by our local women extended to those who are In distress: When Honry W Grady was hesitating hesitat-ing whether to remain on a New iork paper or to return to Georgia, he decided to go home because no-Doay no-Doay in the apartment In which he lived could ten him about the babv whose little white coffin was carried "Vy 8lle wlth h'm down the etePH of the adjoining apartment. "The In humanity of cities" overwhelmed him How many of us have had a similar experience? In ono of the large apartment bouse in which I have lived on tho West !t' .my wfr0Bl door when It swunp open touched the front door of ms on iZT ?,,Mor. divided from m TIL?7 thIn wal1 f l an hall a loot, one morning on going out 1 met a pleasant-faced man. emerging from this door. We exchanged the casual salutation of housemates Thh we repeated on several subsequent oc caslons, In a casual way. I never knew his name One morning, about six weeks later I asked the elevator boy what had become of the man "He died two weeks ago," was the response, "and his hotly was taken out after nightfall and carried to the cemetery" Here was this man who by every law of life and every creed of Chris tlnnlty was my neighbor my nearest neighbor. I could almost hear him breathe at nlcht through the Interven Ing wall. And yet. he had sickened, he had suffered, he had gone through the agony or travail of death He had been carried out In his midnight cas ket to the grave and his family had come back to the anguish and desolation deso-lation of an unspeakable bereavemen' And I who was "this man's neigh bor' had neither ministered his suf ferlng In life, stood by him In the hour of parting and death, nor com fnrfed the crowning sorrow of thoo who came back to his broken and desolate home Just within a foot of the llcht and love and laughter of my own because in the rush of our hip' world I did not know Tragedies of that kind have been enacted In Ogden. It Is Just pos slble that no child or head of a family has been burled without the neighbors knowing of the sorrow and doing their part to assuage the grief of the hereaved, but there have been In stances of poverty, and poverty In an extreme case may be a tragedy In Its appalling uncertainties. Since the Martha Society began Its organized search through the city for quie; sorrows, we doubt that the members of any family, though they be strangers in a strange land, long have been left alone In their misery without with-out a neighbor's door opening to them A strike-breaker moved his family from New Jersey to Ogden last year. He was a drinkor. Soon after coming here, he lost bis Job and went to Pocatello, where he secured employment. employ-ment. For a time, his wife a' four children received regular remittances Then drink once more interfered and the husband and father was not heard from. When the good women of Og den learned of the pitiful condition of destitution In which the helpless mother and her offspring were left, again a neighbor's door opened and a refined, sweet little woman and her four beautiful, clinging children were Invited In That Is but one case In one thousand thou-sand In which the women of this city, since they accepted the responsibility of being the source through which heartless indifference Is to be eliminated elim-inated from this community, have nobly no-bly met all problems of distress and listened to even' cry of discouragement. discourage-ment. And the day nursery' Is their latest answer to the appeals of the lonely and sorely afflicted oo