Stevenson Memorial Cook Book (Classic Reprint)
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| Hersteller: | Forgotten Books (Association, Sarah Hackett Stevenson Mem) |
| Stand: | 2015-08-04 03:50:33 |
Produktbeschreibung
Excerpt from Stevenson Memorial Cook Book During the year 1893 on the streets of Chicago were hundreds of women who had been thrown out of employment. The genuine helplessness and hopelessness of these women appealed strongly to the generous heart of a wonderful woman, Dr. Sarah Hackett Stevenson, one time president of the Chicago Woman´s Club. She went before this club and stated that there was no place in this great city where a woman without funds could find shelter - a woman who would work if given an opportunity. She demanded in the name of humanity that this, her dub, do something at once to relieve the situation. Her plea had its effect, and money was subscribed for beginning work. Other dubs responded to the call for help and contributed both furnishings and funds. And what was called the Woman´s Model Lodging House was opened to the public. No questions were asked of those who came for shelter - the past was not the thing to be dealt with - only the present and future. A charge of 15 cents a night was made, and if they were without money work was given them and they were paid for it - they, in turn, paying for their lodging. It was the principle of the organization that the actual handling of this money helped to preserve self-respect and that they might not fell themselves objects of charity. This principle has held through the years and no woman or child is turned from the door as long as there is a place to rest. Hon. William B. McKinley of Champaign, III., gave as a memorial to Dr. Stevenson the present home at 2412 Prairie avenue, which will accommodate sixty women and about fifty children. The organization has become one of the strongest in the city - a delegated body of eighty-two members who represent women´s organizations of Cook County. For the last few years the work has grown and broadened, until almost every trouble and sorrow that can come to women and children is brought to this door. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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