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Show Ucrking In the Name 01 the Christ Child SOME thirty years ago there lived in the city of Washington a young girl, the daughter of Richard T. JftTrfck. a distinguished lawyer, says the Survey. A serious Injury, due to an Accident, had left her an invalid, (yenned to her couch. The Christmas si'iimjii was fast approaching and amid t!,e preparations for the holidays, whMi the happy family were busily making, tills young invalid, reared in iiixnry, conceived the desire of clothing in the name of the Christ Child some poor babe who was to come into the narlil in poverty. She made a simple tut complete layette, sent for a friend who she knew could find the very mother who needed such assistance, asi one small child was clothed in the tame of the Christ Child. T'ae Christ Child, society, founded -7 jvars ago, distributed 139 layettes last year. Not one request has ever been refused to an applicant Indorsed by its visitors. And from this has developed the material relief department, depart-ment, which clothes and shoes children, chil-dren, furnishes a fortnight's outing, a brace for a crippled leg or a book fruin the library. There are no religious qualifications. Active members contribute con-tribute a definite number of hours' work each week, and anyone may become be-come a member by promising to answer an-swer the Christmas letter of a poor child. Washington numbers 1,000 members, mem-bers, and there are more than 4,500 in all, including the branches in 22 cities. cit-ies. From her couch, where she has lain for more than 25 years, Miss Merrick Mer-rick directs and leads all the society's soci-ety's work. |
