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C ty rN r ti h hi r 1 i G l t s T u 1 r Y ri c ova M t i- i iI I I I It t f. f r sq 4 t i t t i g gI I I c ri H CO R An a C G l J H po u MoO J HERE exists in New CTr York an au organization which perhaps does dos more actual good Bond in the field of charity and covers co a wider scope rope than any other othor ono one force Jorre making c for tho the assisting and uplifting of l' l t-oC t society t Th The Junior League for the Promotion Neighborhood Work is the th modest tie of bf the or organization and it has ready ready- readymade read made mado itself Known throughout le e ration not only onh bv hy its actual in X W York's Yorks s poorer r dis dis- rh cU but by b bits its example which has hasen en fen follo followed 1 by hy other r similar ons ens J throughout hout the tho land Started about f n years wars ago 1 by a aall i t all band blind q of young oun girls prominent in ini ina i e a social life liCe of this city with the d desire desiro of helping p personally in iu me part of tho great settlement work nong ong on the poorest districts in Nework New cw Nework ork rk the society ha Lan haM now a n member member- ip lip of oC more than 00 young oun society omen exclusive o o of the fifty or oro so o o butantes who have been cen added to the inks this pr present season cuon and scarcely l problem arts aris in connection with the tt of the condition of oC the poor which tho the Junior league docs does not at nice nce nc evince the keenest st interest and and practical render cry ery material financial a aid lI ss Harri nu Starts It For tho the f first r t few years under the of its organizer and pre pre pre-l- i- i i ont ent nt Miss Mary r I Harriman then scarcer scarce scarce- r out Of ot her teens the Junior lunior lea league lIo id td its work entirely in connection with lie o e ColI College settlement The Tho rapid rO in membership the tho almost un- un financial returns from the im le annual entertainments entertainment then in i n for lor or the support of th the Jea league ue as fit well tho the very cr keen interest shown hown in in their ork rork both by out outsiders and by bv the girls n D the tho Ica league o themselves ee soon nude clear however that the young worn wom- who make up lip New Y Yorks York's social odd orld are quito quite capable of understand understand- s g and taking an active C part in in the tho ark rork of ot ra raising to a higher level le of and greater plane of user use the generations growing up UD in in o a poorer districts of the city Id for School Children District visiting between th the public i bools and and anft tho the homes of at th the pupils by omen trained for this service is is a i Ork which the Junior league is doing nuch u b to rh The rho promote Playground as- as location of ot Now York has bas received inch luch encouragement and considerable coni help from members of the n ngue who t coo consider ider that tb the number f 1 playgrounds in a crowded tenement ii is o of the tho greatest importance for GB be o health and morality of oi t the 10 t tenement bUd It an- an and hence for tho the future citizens tho the cit city At tho conge congestion tion tion exhibit held last inter In the Natural History museum our models were Avero gi given n by the Junior lunior ague and du duly duh y exhibited At t present n i ut or organization is taking an nu active o rt mitt in in the great Ireat war be being n carried on mast tuberculosis which is is slaying ad inc pac so many hundreds of of f men en women and children ho hn mu might f otherwise ise havo o proved pro I use sc and valuable bc S citizens n At every ir IT and bazar ir held during the month 0 of ember lD in this city cily the Junior league Yo w to it that there thero should b be booth hooth j w u a si ed cd f for the f sale alc of of- of the Christmas Cross tross st stamps ml s presided over ocr by bv a ember embu of the league ea ue Hundreds j per per- Pi thousands thousands or of r dollars were wr added adder th e Red fled ea Cross troBa revenues rC in thi this wn way r r the c extermination of ot tuberculosis I c this is is III bull an au instance of their theft un un- nag 1111 in this field ed for Work Vork Sr For Por adred d better 0 or organization 3 time c c several into in members r s r of nf time the lea llo c arc am di dito di- di to eight districts lorre correspond pom corre pond to and I in ln accordance b i with th the u lie IC school u of f that district Each dis- dis He 1 its own w separate parate chairman 1 In InV No S for exam example 1 which ant em ices sect moo of the city from inch m t to o rw twenty ninth street Fifth as to the tho East river the wade made a member of oC the tho lima area committee u ot f and music or of the tho Peoples te e and mated late by br through the V a small fund a appo I m pt o Junior tree lea league l ue the tho come corne com com- took t ok Part art rt m rn the ii investigation in of oC f e p JI fc ture on o 0 ft o L shows an and 1 penny u of f City which investigation n had been beet i ru 1 by an appropriation Pat on of or th the e unie al le l flu n d distrIct No tie y J rom Cram ro nt Canal t to o I 1 Fourteenth street Broadway to thu Hudson on river among other works a gymnasium was started at 4 19 Spring prin street Three settlements in III tho the neighborhood neigh neigh- ul neighborhood lh shared the use c of it and about young youn men under uDder a leader header went there ther during th the we week k while in the afternoons afternoons aft aft- it was used by bv th the children o of the s settlements with witha a a weekly att attendance attendance attend attend- nd ance of about sixty idy boys and c girls rh One excellent thin thing accomplished by tho time chairman of this district was t the thc placing ing ins of ol a calcium light licht on tho the corner of Leroy and Bedford streets a dark ark and ancI unsafe tin afe place plat This was done done done- through an appeal ap meal to the civil authorities TI In district No 7 10 Fourteenth to Thirty fourth street Fifth avenue DIIO to the time Huc Hudson s n river river three girls went re regularly la last t winter to help in in the library an anti ami I with a boys' boys club chub at the Hudson guild house Playgrounds for Children In district dil No 7 II 11 11 Thirty-fourth Thirty to in ninth Forty street Fifth avenue to tho the Hudson r river cr besides other work accomplished ac ac- accomplished all the tho vacant Jot lots in tho the district dis dis- were visited in order to find out which m might bt bo he available as is playgrounds playgrounds play grounds rounds Also several c of tho the young women Wf were re on a school yi visiting itin coma com Others visited many man manof of nf the numerous nu nu- factories in that district to investigate the tile needs there and give hive help wherever possible Warren Goddard hou house and aud Greenwich Green Grecu- I house as wc well a as the College settlement set set- settlement ct- ct nt ha have each received p considerable Ta Table ble help hell and encouragement ement from the time members of the Junior league names mutes of its members being frequently frequently- seen on on the executive committees of these settlement set set- houses S 'S which carr carry on such i excellent work All these lire are but a n small and minor i part put of th the activities It coming cuming under the I management of th the Junior lea league Atthe At Atthe Atthe the moment nil all efforts are arc being made to organize a re regular system ot of homo home and school visiting carried on h by trained visitors acting in operation co-operation with some somo member U of the league to whom when they may appeal in case of enter enter- envy gency of a sudden desire for funds his visitor is an assistant both to the thc teachers and the parents of the tho public school ool children she visits for tho the teacher teach teach- er who through h lack Isk of time tiro is unable le leto to do this herself J the home of any child who has either been absent for any length of oC time lime or who in the schoolroom school schoolroom room has seemed scented to be be cither either ph physically or mentally below helow the standard aril and discovers whether or not the fault is it due to homo home influence ill treatment or perhaps lack of of lq nourishment This woman is 8 not only of incalculable help to the teacher but hilt can also be he an immense factor for rood good in the time homo which she visits The Ibe idea of the league now in is that in iu each district committees shall be bc formed who shall know personally per Jer per per- personally and he be ready to offer their services service to lo the tho worker oker in that district representing the tho line in which they are Havo Auxiliary Work Auxiliary work is also abo being attempted attempt attempt- ed in connection with the di district trained nurs nurses nurses' 8 and time the t tuberculosis clinics The idea of the league now as expressed by t the e chairman of tho the neighborhood work board Miss Hiss li s Mary lar Harriman is that in each district committees committees com corn shall bo ho formed who shall know personally and anti offer their services E to the worker in that district representing II the line iu in in which they the per personally art are must most mo t interested these members to to form forum themselves into auxiliaries to meet and m confer with tho those o to tu whom the they have hao pledged cd their help hel In this waY way a. a l member who cannot t give e regular hours or ur a great amount amoun tt t of time car can do valuable nei neighborhood d work and can get in touch in a personal personal per per- bonal wa way y- y with what whal i is actually occur occur- crin j I riD ring umon among the people of or her own awn n dis- dis 1 I 1 Last wint winter two special meetings s were o held at the hume home of of II p I P. P 1 hitney Whitney for the purpose of putting before all th tho o members ot of the IC league lie tho the plan for ti thu m. m u home Lome and school visitors working in da n di direct operation co-operation with members of th the e I society At these 10 meeting n etin A most t interesting inter sting esting speeches peaches were Wet delivered bv by Dr Dl Dewey Dewcy of Columbia Columbi university Miss Julia Richman district superintendent t t of public schools o b by Miss hiss Ian Jano o Addams of ot Hull house honse Chicago on th tho o subject of social mm settlement uchic achieve c meat ment nt So muc much fur Cor the bi b end cud of th the c I Junior league ue although this sk sketch is all too ton brief to give c anything but a most inadequate picture of what is be her hering bein being in ing done one It by the young oun women in this city to build buill up lip a 1 better state and a a. stronger morn more physically powerful peo po pJ pie the thu sustaining committee who mi might ht bo hc clas classed ell as t the social ocial part of if f the Junior la league le few fet if an any of its activities could ho bo kept up From the entertainment J given Jen en each year and now as well known and important nt a 1 function as 18 was Tras the assembly hall ball of a quarter ofa of ofa a a. century ago ire are are derived the funds b b by means of which the many activities 1 of ol the time league arc are carried on and arid this entertainment i is left entirely lv in th thee the very ry capable hands bands of eason as n B R a debu debut The sustaining committee has its own president president this year Miss Carol Harriman and Harriman and its own various committees committees commit commit- tees for the pIa play Only tho limo debutante members may take p part t in this entertainment entertainment enter enter- entertainment and amid as it would scarcely be po possible ihle for fOI every cry debutante possessed of histrionic abilities to display play her talents tal tal- cuts the tho anxiety of oC whether or not she is to b be elected n n a member of the society is scarcely over before tho the decisions have to be made malIc and often ballots taken in the making up of the cast for the pla pIa play Awl Anti great r at is is the disappointment for those whose names are not enrolled among amonI the members or with tho cast of the entertainment committee Tableaux for Charity The Tho first entertainment given h bv by the league consisted of or a charming chumin portrayal of living Jiving Jivin pictures in in which amon among other othor oth oth- th or er 1 sub subjects the then Cryder triplets formed forme a l most moat charming tableau ahlean So greatly has the society society- grown rown an and branched out since it its organization and FO so wid widespread is the interest shown today today to to- toria ria day in its work that last year ar from the entertainment given chen at the Hotel Plaza a 1 charming charmin old ohl English ma masque que Ie The The Hue and Cry Crr After Cupid which was Tras followed by y n a part of Mr r. r Wilde Wilde's s 's 5 com corn comedy comedy edy The Tho Importance of Being Earnst Earnest Earnest Earn Earn- est st tho extraordinary sum of was a cleared cleared a tribute indeed to the capability of the Now l York debutante No o active work is done b by the d debutantes debu- debu butantes bu- bu 5 but through the flower committee commit commit- tee of which Miss Lorraine Roosevelt is chairman hunches bunches of flowers were sent to the time various hospitals in New York from fromn the debutante teas tens receptions receptions receptions re re- etc held throughout the thc win win- ter This last i is perhaps one ODe of tho the most must pleasure giving of all the tho good works i in II which the J Junior un or league is in in- T Junior league lealue is an organization f ion tion possessing almost unlimited powers for good is undeniable and too much praise cannot be accorded the band of girls who each year g give go o up to so o much of their enthusiasm iu jn helping helpin to better and mako make happier the J lives cs of those thoe less fortunate than themselves cs Without question tho home and the school aro are t the c most important t factors inthe in tho the training of the child no matter of what walk in liC life and the Junior league could not do a better work than to cooperate cooperate co co- operate with those trl trained neil visitors and nurses rendering them diem both personal encouragement en en- Dt and financial aid Members Also Benefited But perhaps the greatest good that is accomplished by bv the tho Junior league is done clone to tb the members themselves Once Oncca a girl irl studies the district in which she herself lives with its very ery distinct dif dif- feren s between een time the children of Fifth avenue a and aUtI the children of First becomes be he ones comes interested in iii the tup number of pub lie lic schools playgrounds diet kitchens trade schools etc etc ell which are arc to be found in in that n neighborhood bho sho cannot fail to become awakened to the great reat social ocial problems of the entire city citro There is no limit to the tho influence for good which may 1 be exerted by a young girl who Jm limas has sufficient interest in tho rho subject sub sub- jest to try to arouse a l kindred interest st in those olier an and more amore powerful than herself elf And nd there is much to be done among time tho closely dosch crowded tenement dwellers dwellers in this city cHr To fo the influence of such organizations I aa as the Junior league m may well bo be at aim the character given to the American girl Eby by those know her best best e extraordinary best extraordinary intelligence and breadth of view upon all tunics topics of gun gen cral eral interest at home and abroad untiring I ing jug ener energy and aDd pertinacity in putting through a n project once d determined determine On and a wonderful sense of or sympathy |
