Show CHARITY SOCIETY DOING GOOD WORK ORK Making Plea to Public for Finances to Continue and Broaden Its Scope I I Records of the Charity Organizations society contain many stories of great good accomplished and aid given in the nick of time Recently an electrician working on a local contracting Job awoke one morning and cried out that he could not see sec H lie e had been suddenly suddenly sud sud- denly stricken blind Companions brought him to the so society society society so- so and he was given Immediate lodgIng ing The secretary Mary E E. Pulliam placed him in touch with a specialist and secured his medical history When he was somewhat improved the society found work that ho he could do Today he Is slowly recovering his sight and manages to walk alone with the aid of a cane Ho lie is almost self- self supporting Only the prompt aid and encouragement extended by the tho s society saved him from despair How the interests of the weak and andI defenseless are also guarded Is 1 Illustrated illustrated Illus illus- lus- lus I by a stor story told by the secretary about a poor girl who came to her I notice GIRLS GIRL'S GIRLS GIRL'S STORY TOLD She had been given employment time and again by the free employment bureau of the city to always return like the proverbial bad penny seeking work the secretary said Her lIer employers employers em em- mI m- m I reported that she was queer and they did not care caro to keep herAs herAs herAs her As a 0 last resort one of the employment employment employment employ employ- ment x sent her to the Charity Organization society We Yo found that she was both physically and mentally unfit to care for herself She could not give us a straightforward story of her life and it was vas only after infinite pa patience patience patience pa- pa tience and much piecing out of her story that we wo learned that she had be become become become be- be come estranged from her family Because Because Because Be Be- cause of her physical condition her sister had turned her out suspecting she had tuberculosis and being afraid for her children Her mother had died dice intestate leaving certain properties and anda a 0 member of her family had induced her to sign certain legal papers so sa that thai the property might be sold and promising promising promising prom prom- ising to send her share to her but she had received nothing and being mentally mentally mentally men men- tally Incapable did not understand her legal rights to a a Do share of the property nor how to realize her rights INVESTIGATING CASE The Charity society Is making an investigation and expects to force a property settlement on the tho grounds that the woman was mentally unsound I when she signed the papers A guardian guardian guard guard- ian can be appointed and the woman will then receive the care she so much I needs and will be saved from the humiliation humiliation hur hu hu- hu- hu r of becoming a county charge and the county will be bo saved the ex expense expense ex- ex pense of The society is making a a. drive for funds without which the good work cannot be bo carried on All money or orI I checks check should be sent Bent in care of the secretary Mary E. E Pulliam Charity Organization society 20 East First I South street |