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Show 1 OM FO? LITTLE FOLATS 75 PROVIDED y MA A5 7H4 SOCIETY I-f By ROSE ANN ASTILL Everyone knows how niurh cn cbantment thcro is in the word "homo," lor nearly everyone begins life in a hoim- under the tender care of mother and dad. But eoinetlipoB dad lti lefl to take the place of mother, and may bo mother must build Ihp home alone. 01 perhaps both mother and dad heed a c&TI far greater than that of ilie child's heart and more lhan n few of Off-den'8 Off-den'8 citizens are left in the care of strangers. But kind hearts and hands have reached out and led them to a place thej (earn to knot? ae home, 'The Martha Pay Nursery," built especially for them by the Martha l'" Society of oden. WOMAN STARTS IT It was in 1908 when the idea of this society was born in lhe heart of Mrs, Prank J, Cannon, who saw the need of a home, where mothers or fathers could leave their children and feel justified in I heir safety, while they worked to keep the linle home together. Mr.-. Cannon immedl ately organized the society and named il the Ogden ( har it socleiv. But its work had scarcely begun when the leader died and in honor of their beloved president ihe re- i in. lining members renamed tin -i iety, giving it her name, Martha. For twelve years, the work has grown to such an extent, that today, more lhan sixty children are eared lor daily and are taught the things . that will help them to live and make l heir way in (he world Perhaps some day when lhe name of some man becomes well known ibroughout the I niled States and the goal ol fame has long been reached, a time will come when memory will roll back the doors of the past. Some evening when the f l librarj is dimly III and flan JST flicker Bhadows on the wall and thai IB man sits in solitude, his thoughts will wander back to the dearest pic H Jure, the place, he knew as homo. B8B 1 1 will be a large building of red H9 brick with outside trimmings of lti BH stone and while framework, sur F"" rounded by lawn and shade lie - Hydyg There will be a playground in the WM rear, a barn, with chickens, ducks, WM pigs and a cow. Inside the home hV9 will be a big kitchen in the basement, SJflB a dining room, small dormitories. Sjl with still other memories of a bit. S9H playroom upstairs. But outstanding from all memories will be a plain HH inscription on a banner of dark HH wood, hung over lhe porch steps HH which reads. -'Martha Day Nursery." DAYS OF YORE HH And the kindest picture v. ill be of MMj the women whose hand.- anil b( MM worked lo make that place a home, rnWM the membei-s of ti e gn Martha Society There will be the time whi n one of the members came 9IH a visitor to the home and of her ! B8fli placing a gentle hand on a head ot j WmB glOSSy hair, asking. "How are you. V Richard?" What have you been do , itffjM ' mg all all day"" Perhaps the man p in lhe dlmlj lit library will smile as HH he remembers liL bashful answer. HH 'Fine. mam. an' I've teen lovin' ( BH X,JU a day.' Wfiji " Or perhaps some late evening j-idJfl when a woman sits mending a torn U ftM frock, the thinks of her own children HhhI silenced With sleep and her husband HH engrossed in the evening paper. ' SHiiff memory will steal through the closed 'j i doors and take her back There will ( V be the house the man in the dimly ; lit library saw and the same plain J HH inscription will stund out. Martha , Dav Nursery." And probably the h jjflQ same lady who addressed Richard p ! will turn to her and say, 'Well Anne, SB 1 know you le 1 t i:n- too, but tell me, Wm what have you been doing all day.'" L aM Maybe the woman will smile as she :, implies. "I've been learning to sew, Bp when I get big, I can make dress-WM dress-WM tin like you make for us." H There will be other nu n ind j Djj women besides Richard and Anne J; RSl who will remember the "Martha tiSHa Day Nursery" as it stands today on fnwfflf Washington Avenue and North U LJ get They will smile over their " childish fancies when thej remem-MKf remem-MKf y her how they used to look at 'he ; iffrltJ plain banner and wonder just who mPtl Martha was. It's a large home, I ir'J built and furnished BOmething like PfejrKjl ours. There aren't any rules, for lis SFImJ not an instituiion. but just a home gwitnSj where little girls and boys from ihe ( 'apes of two to twelve may shout and 1 'laugh, may work and play and learn the things, that other'Ilttle children learn in their homes. The big red j I house is home to them Their ma- I 'iron, Mrs. Doru Tracy, they learned, to eall mother, and she takes the place of a mother, teaching then; things they oucht to know and in , -tilling in lh'-ir h'irlr ihe - 1 arid 'ihe brave witB Which ihey must, fae ihe world. SOMETIMES WE FORGET igden men and women, who hearts j I turn evei toward their own home j sometimes forget of another home ! made possible. They forget that j Din Martha Society of Ogden needs (12,000 yearly for it- upkeep and io provide children wjtn food, clothing, warmth and the joya 'that their own children are having. 1 13ut there are some who never forget, who have unconsciously placed theil children in the Bame position of man) ef thosi In the Martha J!'m' and ihej remembejr to help. Merchants, groceries, physicians, dentists, bn-' nn men and women are among l hose that never forget. School hours and play hours work j hoUl arid stor hour.- in- meant tO be in ihe life ol every child ns well us tho joys (.1 Hallowe'en, Thanksgiving, Thanks-giving, May Day. Decoration, Vat tion. New Years' and Christmas. Ami the Martha Society have arranged arrang-ed that these days shall be real true gala days in their home 1 It has been true wtlh many or ;ti world's Tamous nun that their worth sprung lrom provcrty and from work, ami it may happen some day that ome famous men or women will look back to the 'Marttfa Day Nursery," of Ogden in iheir first memory of home. And thai thai memory will be one of worth and one ol end u men t and charm, niemters ot the Ogden Martha Bociot) are working daily io m.ik thai Institution an Ideal hi-. ,n OO 1 |