S700 New Year Edition
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September, 1939
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Tins is a second of a series of articles by Theresa Kaufmann, Social Service Worker of the Vancouver Jevwsh Family Welfare Bureau. The JTewish Family Welfare Bureau is an agency of the Vancouver Welfare Federation.—-EDITOR.
The roorii was gloomy and dark. The rain pattered mercilously agatast the window pane; through which gray clouds peered. It was chilly. The large old cook stove stood glum, filling the comer of the room. It was rusty for want of blackening. We sat and talked quietly together, the woman and I. by the four-legged kitchen table. I leaned against it. It complained creakingly as though life was too much for it. Its oil-cloth covering was of a pattern ancient and worn. I glanced about me; a quaint rocker with broken rungs, two deformed cheerless wooden chairs, placed at different angles in the I oom, completed its furnishings. "How many rooms have you?" I asked. "Three," was the prompt reply, "at $18.00 month rent, the Relief allow us $11.00, (because it is furnished) and we must find the other $7.00 which usually comes out of our food allowance—the landlord Insists . . ." I was hardly listening at all for a little girl had Just entered and was tugging at her; mother's sleeve. I shall never forget that pitable little spectacle before me. The child was small. Her brown curly hair hung in wet, stringy ringlets. Her thin little face was pale. The eyes were large and dark as she looked first at her mother and then at me, almost imploringly, in want of something, knowing not what. The rain had drenched her through. There she stood with her thin cotton dress, a wet rag; her sox soaking and dirty, her little shoes sadly exposing the tender feet to the cold and the rain. The child began to cry. The mother scolded bitterly, in tears too. "I told you not to go out!" she fairly screamed. Then turning to me she apologet-
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Ically explained that the child had no change of clothing, only her very best things which she would ruin if she wore for play, and her shoes had worn out so quickly and she had not had time or the courage to ask the Relief for another pair.
We quickly removed the unsavoury clothing and wrapped the little one in a half torn blanket, tucking her irito bed. I suggested warm milk, or cocoa, or soup, but there was none. The relief scrip was running low and "We must be careful how we spend the last few cents." I looked at the httle girl again and the little room in which she lay. She looked like a lost doll in the huge iron bed. "I sleep here with my two bigger sisters," she told me. Above her, a large piece of plaster must have fallen from the ceiling; below her, the uncovered flooring bared its splintered boards ... a perfect pauper's lair. My thoughts were Interrupted by the brusque arrival home of the two older children, trucking in mud from the rain. "Mum," shouted a girl of 11, "can I have a piece of bread and butter?" "It is too near supper time and I'm making some nice rice pudding," was the evasive reply, "Rice pudding again," she turned up her nose, quite unashamed. "Tilly, what are you doing?" cried the mother, as we both turned to discover the younger child of 8 climbing onto a shelf and sneaking out a couple of withered looking apples. "I was going to make an apple pie for the baby's birthday tomorrow," sighed the mother. "It is very hard to be poor," she added simply.
I felt sorry for that mother. She was still quite young and rather pretty, but she looked so tired—so weary—so worn. "If only my husband could find work," she had related. "He lost his job on account of a lengthy illness and then the depression came. It seems that luck is air v%'ays against us."
I took my departure and in my heart I thanked God that it was in our power to help—that the Jewish Family Welfare Bureau was functioning. A nurse, through the V.O.N, was sent in to see that the little girl did not become seriously ill. She was found to be considerably underweight and undernourished, as were the other children. MUk daily, butter and eggs weekly were delivered at the organization's expense. A supply of fuel made the old cook stove look almost human and certainly more useful. Some warm clothing for the children and another family among many such unfortunates, was made just a little happier and healthier.
It is to you, dear readers, that we look, to help us carry on this work.
JEWISH AGENCY DENOUNCES KILUNG
JERUSALEM (Vi^NS-Palcor Agency)—A vigorous statement of condemnation was issued by the Jewish Agency provisional Executive in connection with the killing in a Jewish quarter of Jerusalem of two British police inspectors. In addition to the statement, the Jewish Agency conveyed its condolence to the Inspector General of Police and sent wreaths and a guard of honor of notrim for the funeral.
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