| Show OF oi ii RELIEF SOCIETY SOBER Noble tobIe Band of Nurses Who Are Doing a Great Work for Charity AMID ILLNESS AND POVERTY Some Stories of Heartbreaking Cases of Destitution Brought To Notice of Workers l W i He ire Hect Hr irei Will i Quiet ct Effort Imort In Salt lake L ke keUp To ro the corner of ot South Temple Up Un en cn corer Is a house where a tt BJ St East l rings with serious Insistence during the 24 hours of s maw every tm Tho The messages are mostly Uke Hello Superintendent Charity Nun Nur Nu Want to 10 report a ft I Ferous case CISO of sickness Family In des destitute res destitute father out of ot work wore mother lck three children down with wih contagious disease Can you send lend char charity charSty Sty ity nurse nut at lt once oneo to give uld aid but Only one ono this of ot many messages massages behind them theft all al lie tales to harrow the tho heart of ot humanity We Ve dont donL like to advertise our who wok aid Mrs Emma Empey has charge charpe of tha il th Relief Society nurse work lorle hs Wo Vo do donl all that wo wa do quietly but I Ihle without any ally desire for publicity have to smile some times when I read In of this or that person or r body of persons ns having subscribed jomo f mo donation to toa n a charity call cal while ton tar weeks before betor tho the Relict Heller Society has hns been leen b en meeting tho the household food anti ml ot of the tho ease case and keeping apt trained nurses thero there for tor the tho tell tep more necessary than all aU FACTS PACTS IN LN THE CASE The TIie hc fact is there are few cases Indeed In lii a ward which do not come eon under the I I rd bishops and nd Relief Tel let no notice tice and and the tho rule rules Is rather to lend aid to t the lh al unworthy than to turn away awny the truly needy or afflicted We meet many tr ln conditions In our work ea Cd In the tho houses or of the sick where everything In way of oe poverty and is f s met I 1 had a n call cal not lung long ago aO from a destitute family f hoto ill ll three al children were IU A CarIL mitto nut 1 at nt once sent and latr I It t to 0 the tho place myself for tor an llon flon I found them In a R tenement t ement how boe lon end and wits was Informed by b a 0 neighbor that the people I 1 looked for tOr fOras was no noI nood od I at nt t all ILI lust just j st poor white trash from the tue south that oven eY the tho associate with r Going Coins to the door deer dor I entered n a I room holding the three families which in th inhabited fut at relay tela of thre 11 habited as ao many rooms all directly or 01 Within these three rooms 1 I learned there thelo had recently been roms bt n 16 cases learne of measles In the third apartment I found Lound tho the family to whom I 1 had sent vent my tay nurse nunc The room was 35 not very ve large and In n It were ere two twin be the three children being bin down with pneumonia Tho The mother a n list listless listless less leS young rOlf woman ot of about 23 years year stood helplessly watching the nurse I 1 spoke to her telling her herot of my sym sympathy pathy but met no response What Whal havo have you been doing for tor the 1 I l asked She waited and tat from her mouth a great stream of ot brownish liquid which I later know knowin in a s Juice I aint done dono noth tos k Ir for tOl cm cal Isho she replied POVERTY AND ND Not Net ot used to nursing I asked Nl 11 Ni 1 aint ever over nursed nobody I J looked l ke around Poverty and un UI everywhere A largo large pack packing Jacl JaclIn ing In box stood by h tho the wall and in lu It were tho the family utensils pans panl kettles such and In a ft 1 wal wall cupboard J were iv a j ten fw f w dishes No clothes clothe closet only I a fw I ew I nails for the scanty wardrobes i QI ci it lh the five fly The nurse I found hud had buns bUn h Ian r own clothes on the tho porch out tM fie The fl he father came in Ina a rough unkempt man manas aa closemouthed clo as his hid hisIe Ie The yard Id outside was t and on 01 the tho line lne hung the clean cleanthe the Society hud had fur In the thu mud mid I and In such conditions Think I IQ ot Q c those bose children getting well sell wel In all ni that It I Well Wil It I shows what the tho atly nurse can do when nhe goes goel I K D h r work with a n whole heart henrt PITIFUL CASE Another pneumonia case was more mora molo Wilful The family were Germans and waH speak little Ito English the father Cut her oll having a small smal command of ot the Iho lie Ilo 10 had hod ha a I sov ro re a cao of or stuttering For Tor which ho had 1 n taking treatment t that had u 4 up u most of his means menns A curious PM phee e was wn that only when vla he ho raised W hI hiM hands above his bIn hil head could cOllel he lie iak go so sc that converse wn with him was always bI 1 7 I this thu 1 tableau l OF NURSE A Cures had hued boen been dispatched at nt the tha first Ort OrtI M il and anti her hur h r roller relief nurse H I sent MU nt Inter I 3 met nt with the tho doctor wih news now that the tho h W Mid alJ Unit that neither lelh r child could live hive Ivo I tn 1 so o glad you ou came camo she rhe said I br or the lbs tto one Is the tho moth fo I Cannot I nl 1 h and nud Is subject to o fainting n M bo be boNo boJ nl spells 1 II unit and I dreaded to litre r alone J No child ploy play this thU ox ax axIn Ill In J for or Ie oung leg thu f s poverty und de I I In l n ornuL T The luo bb now new looked about L On A ml ed 11 hi ono one e earlier corner fer lay luy Iu tim tho older aider child iii n n n a 1 hi b with I th in In II a r stood baby S carria e c und nn III In It n II little child I Junt then tho tim thoi i f came Inand tho tue mother told toll him luini what luat tho the doctor had said slid ot of the tho children that thoro was no hope Ills His taco was pitiful but bul ho had no tune to Indulge his hil hI own grief tho strain lund been too much for cor tho the mother and Ild Rho hc mink ank on the tho floor In u a 1 Tim Tho ho nurse nurl went wont quietly to the tho child and under tinder her deft thu Ild dar convulsions ceased Two hours and no Ito sign of nf tho the terrible gasping Oh the tho Joy In that mothers lothers toed toe There Thele a U chance chanco chalco for tor the thc life lre thou then thel nut But no the tue little Ito body was too frail to 10 0 lend head lell resistance and n IL few fow hours liter Iler It was gone gOle Prudently Presently elty the tha under tinder undertaker ulder taker Inkel came cume So so 01 7 tho the nurse asked I have not been able to dross lre s thi yit The Tho doctor left lett word wor with me nue meto moto to get It away awny quickly as ns possible pos he hue hI ho he replied for tho the good of ot tho the other othol child FATHER ABSENT nut But the father Is not net homo home now no nor the tho brothers or Bisters and tho the mother can understand nothing U It I seems seem cruel to take It away before Where Is tho the baby ho hue asked aked and the nurse laid lall back tho the sheet she t front from the tue little Ito form Tears started In his hl eyes cyc eyel A beautiful child ho Ito said under his breath But nut ho could not wall and with signs tho the nurse nur e made the tho mother understand her need She had only ono one dress dresa for fOl her baby a 0 little muslin gown too much macli starch td ad d and poorly poor Ironed Can Cnn you ou furnish anything better beter than that 7 the tue nurse asked the man Nothing nearly so good stud said tho the undertaker antI then a bargain was made matle that the nurse might come up the next day and bring tho the little dress freshly laundered for a n shroud To Together gether Fether ether they lucy the made the mother under understand stand that her baby wan was to be bo taken luken away uway She nodded her head and made lade no further sign Ign walking about In Ina Inn ina a n dazed way till ti the father came then she sho pointed to the tho empty corner where the little mt carriage lied had stood gave gao one scream sank to tho the floor foor From Fromon ono one swoon to another Iother she passed the hue husband h vainly trying to comfort com tort her herthen then tho the superintendent was telephoned BISHOP TAKES A HAND nAND HANDShe hANDShe She gave Instructions to o notify not tho the bishop of ot the ward and lit Iri ton minutes he ho was there thore with wih his counsellors counselor Get act the tho baby back ho he Instructed when lie lied had heard hoard tho the pitiful tale taha and wo we will vIll bear benr all nl expenses expanses wi There Then her were delays and delays but hut finally the little body came back to Ito give glo to tIm Ih ber n mother mothel tIle the comfort of her last caress caressA I IA A now nurse came to relieve and the former went vent on Oi her work worl In other of Or eed A Afew few weeks lat let later leter er ern n a mutt man stopped her on the tho and offered his hi hand and wh his arms were vere thrown above his tilshead head Irm did she ie hie recognize the father Cather of ot heal the beautiful dead child hild How Is the other little boy that was wa lih she alto asked 11 Ho He Is bettor said the father Joy Joyfully jOyfully fully we wo think ho howl will live hive I va vaSo So rend read the records ot of angelic charity done dono by the tho effort eort of or unselfish uns hands FOR DAYS Some ot of our nurses keep a 0 long leng vigil said the tho superintendent looking over her hor book bool ot of reports There nrc uirt nr cases of 59 days a long stretch with without without out relief und absolutely without re remuneration We W had once In our cars cara cN carsan on nn old oi lady llady but oh wr or r foul so long bong dying d She was destitute a aO O for an pension n grunted granted her lend dead soldier ln husband Tho The most of this 1 selfish sons song fon wheedled t out of othor liar her so that her bet only hope hoJ was wais va the lif society help We sent ont nurse nure after nurse nuro to stay with her In those lust last fer lonely months when her own hands handu were helpless and ind her herl kindred heedless of ot her condition Many ft a n lonely lonel old soul I cheered by this voluntary com corn companionship comp p it and want wat Is 15 Kept from their thol poor Pool lOll TOols roofs HOMELESS ELESS BABES DAnES Sometimes our nurses n arc called to care carl for young babes babs loft left lot motherless and anti T I could tell tel you ou ot of tome come who have takes taken these little ones homo home and kept them years for take sake One Ono ot or these year motherless babes has been heen living now for four years In a IL nurses home three big broth brothers brothers the idol t nl of ot lien her two or ers ens who like Iko nothing so BO well wel as to buy for tor tho the kid kl Not ot so long iong ago we sent one ono of ot o our girls to 10 n a R family al whore death claimed the mother her life Ufe given for tor her newly born bor babe babo Tho To tether father was vaS bb poor thero there were era other children but none nono to toke tAke charge chargo of at the tho littlest one The Tho nurse took It to 0 her hor own home homo and ald there thoro It till sti remains tho father mak making lug ing what little remittances he can for forIs Its help There was no money to pay for Is help for tho the other othor children BO so they thoy had bad to make mako tho the best beRt of things play In the tho streets and take tako care ere of ot them themselves selves somehow till ti tho the father came homo home at night tom from his work Some SinO time ago ugo wo we had hud a 0 call cal In another maternity cas clue case o II a young you II wife In sore poverty her liar husband In iho tho with typhoid fever On the tho lay day the tim baby came camo Into tho the world tho the father still stI nt at the tho hospital died Three children and a helpless with wih no outlook for fora a livelihood for tal or tho future Think of oC It you fortunate ones shel slid sheltered sheltered In snug ug homes bomes with wih tho the advent of your YOU blessed little ones hulled hailed by h of ot roses nn One flue linen and Wo We heard herd afterward that the tue mother to her people some Home In the tho south all of ot them poorer than site she he Their plea comes to us wo help them In our way an its ni best bast wo we can cn and amid then they are gone Hakes on 01 the great river of ot life GRATITUDE AT A DISCOUNT Bonio foote whom we wo help hardly barll grateful Ono One case we w had another of lt tho the poor or white trash tranh kind conditions und and almost unbearable to people of ot flue Onu culture like Iko the thu best ot or our nurses mimes SIte She went wont among ImonG theta them taking tho tIm first wholesome breath of ot cleanliness they had known In II years nursing a contagious mot most try tryIng tl lug Ing 11 to handle Not one OM won word of at If graIl tutla rewarded her her weeks oC or dovo devo devotion tim tion Site Sim was under tinder no claim to tl t do IC this thin work savo her own desire to bo be b beo of ot o use Usa Iso to tho the and Tho 1 ho doctor In attendance came In tot for his share shame ot of time the general generl Indifference Toys roys ro fruit frit and Ind other gifts sent lont by h him hint vero received und and used In Ignorant But lut It does dol not keep any city of ut thorn 11 from tho time next cull dive dvo fro y expecting nothing In II return this IH is II the tho great Broat shibboleth of nf trite charity on which In our il WILY way wo we 0 aro trying to tl live Jve |
