Ogden Daily Standard | 1914-07-23 | Page 6 | Farr Home is Being Prepared for a Day Nursery

on FARR HOME IS BEING PREPARED M II DAY NURSERY The Farr home, on Washington avenue and Twenty-first street, is heme; he-me; prepared for the day nursery , which will be started there by the ) Man ha Socletj of this city, with aid by the county board of commissioners It ie said that it will be opened about July 30. The two upper floors will be used largely by the county In furnishing quarters for impecunious widows with living quarters, their children to be i taken care of durinc the time they are at work earning a living It Is said by the commissioners that there are a number of deserving women in the city who are working for small wages that need help and that it will be cheaper and more satisfactory to I give them aid at the proposed nursery ' than in any other way The count will have eight rooms on the two floors which. It is planned, will accommodate ac-commodate about four families. The rooms will be arranged as "living "liv-ing rooms" but the children will be taken care of through the day in the nursery, which will obviate the neces- sit of the mother preparing the noon ; meal, leaving only the morning and 1 evening meal for preparation in the small quarters These accommoda j tions will be given, the chairman of the board of commissioners states only temporarily and those depending on the county must arrange to take care of themselves at the earliest pos sioie ume. The oursery in part will be a charitable charit-able institution, but charges will be j made for the care and keepin? of children where 'he parents or guard-' ians are able to pay No children will , be received unless it is positively 1 known that thev have no means of i support or no one t.. take care of them It is intended that it shall be a place where relief may be given to I the deserving and the best possible I results obtained for the little tots who need attention