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Show DOIiJQ WORK FOR HUMANITY Agencies for Beneficenco In Indianapolis Indian-apolis Have Established a Splendid Record.. It is truly the altrulstlo age. Few, Indeed, are the men and 'women in any community who do nothing for others than themselyes, either through Individual service or through organization. In Indianapolis th agencies for beneficence are perhaps no more numerous than elsewhere, but there are so many of them as to prove that wherever a need of service is discovered volunteers quickly arise ready to render it. There, for example, is the Christ Child society, a Email and unpretentious unpreten-tious body formed but a year or so py Christmas to as many children as possible who would otherwise be without joy on that day, each member pledging herself to provide for one child. To become interested In children chil-dren for' one cause Is to find more than one reason for continuing that Interest. Presently the society undertook under-took to supply layettes for babies for whose coming no " ' preparation had been made, working in this case through the Children's Aid associa- ( tion so that no duplication would be . made. The importance of pure milk appealed to it next, and last summer 1 It became responsible for one of the free milk stations. The needs of the Italian colony came to its attention, and with the co-operatioa of the Normal Nor-mal college it has established a free kindergarten, there for little foreign youngsters coming Americans.- -In-tliannpolis Star. |