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Title: The Open court
Year: 1887 (1880s)
Authors: Carus, Paul, 1852-1919 Open Court Publishing company, Chicago
Subjects: Religion Religion and science
Publisher: Chicago : The Open Court Pub. Co.
Contributing Library: Morris Library, Southern Illinois University Carbondale
Digitizing Sponsor: CARLI: Consortium of Academic and Research Libraries in Illinois

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t one that hadbeen at the German front, but there were many who had neverbeen called out. The Polish lower-class people are childlike, easy going, slovenlyand lovable, but difficult to train in efficiency. The day after the publication of President Wilsons peaceproposition several hundred Polish students assembled in front ofthe American consulate. There was a band and delegates offered amessage of thanks to our President. The band played the Polishnational hymn, while the students and many passers-by stood inthe zero weather with bared heads and sang and cheered Polandand America. Hundreds of people sent their visiting cards to theAmerican consul with touching words of gratitude to PresidentWilson for his thought of Poland. WARSAW TO-DAY. 477 In spite of apparent good conditions in the city of Warsawthere is much misery among the poor. For the first time Polishcitizens have had permission to organize charity work in the cities,and the women in Warsaw have accomplished wonders in that
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THE CARMELITE CHURCH,respect. I visited many of the soup-kitchens and day nurseriesand other charitable institutions. The problem of caring for thecity poor, as well as the hordes who have drifted in from the ruinedfarming country is, of course, very great. Hundreds are quitedestitute, with no means to buy the expensive food, and without 478 THE OPEN COURT. work, clothing or even shelter. I talked with one lady who hadherself started, and even partly furnished, three day nurseries. Inone of them, arranged for very little children, I saw a boy of eightlying in one of the little cribs. They had found him wanderingabout the street, where he had been for several days in the freezingcold, without food and wearing scarcely any clothing. He said hisfather had been taken to work away from Poland and had left himin the care of an old woman. She herself had no work or money,and the little boy was one day taken out and lost. He is an exampleof one of the scores of little drifting war-orphans to

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