+--------------------------------------------------------------------+ | =For School Children= | | | | Compulsory education implies the ability of all families, even the | | poorest, to take advantage of school benefits. This means that | | children should be fed properly, clad comfortably, and healthfully | | housed. | | | | The New York Association for Improving the Condition of the Poor | | aims to cooeperate with school-teachers in every part of Manhattan | | and The Bronx to insure comfort and prevent suffering among school | | children, their parents, and younger brothers and sisters. On one | | day last winter we received appeals from school principals and | | teachers in behalf of twenty-nine families. Within six hours every | | family was visited, emergent aid in food and coal provided for | | many, and orders given for shoes and dresses and coats required by | | the children of school age. During the winter we gave not only | | clothing, groceries, food, and rent, but found work for older boys | | and parents, taught mothers to prepare food properly, and sent a | | visiting cleaner to make sick mothers comfortable and to get the | | children ready for school. | | | | In a word, we followed that need, the surface evidence of which | | comes to the attention of the teacher, back into the home and its | | conditions, aiding throughout the period when the family was | | unable to do justice by the school child. | | | | In many instances the home income was sufficient, but the home | | management inefficient. Probably such homes could be more | | effectively benefited through educational work emanating directly | | from the school. | | | | We can be reached by telephone (348, 349, and 1873 Gramercy) from | | 9 A.M. to 12 M. Letters or postal cards should be addressed to | | Mrs. H. Ingram, Superintendent, 105 East 22d Street. Reference | | slips will be gladly furnished upon application. | | | | The New York Association for Improving | | 1843 * the Condition of the Poor * 1905 | | | | =Teachers of Manhattan and The Bronx= |