HOW HELP TO Aw W. w i x T.JFIELDS. JAMES THOUSAND. T\VKNTY-SBCOND BOSTON New "$lw : MIFFLIN HOUGHTON, York: 11 fltoewde POOR, THE AND Eatt Seventeenth pre#, COMPANY, Street. Cambridge. 1885 3 1883, COPYRIGHT, FIELDS. By JAMES MRS. All rights T. reserved. Though " and bestow I have all it charity, not goods my feed to profiteth the poor, nothing." me St. " Paul. The " the have means and virtue, the exercising is doctrine grand William self-culture, of health, its a historic No conviction, human events, among soul and all and James Freeman is event of a a this man, " social highest important so truth. new build alter of truth." Channing. " " of happiness, and the as edge knowl- progress affections place Ellery in of comfort, and should being human every of powers taking slowly that up the convictions These institutions, tendencies Clarke. are as the change none religious human of advent convictions of there unconquerable as of the of course and affairs; so the strong, nent, perma- convictions." " NOTE. public with which now of In meetings, the who are the believe that interest in interest visitors helpers, neither any such the to page and too household like of enough the of aims difficult of others themselves, to lighten to of book to for feel Especially, awaken a well-to-do homes this advantage knowledge will meetings hearts can trict dis- every reap unfortunate. the strong Every and endeavoring, of to conferences almost will they experience burden and poor, the in weekly few a cities. large our the attend to held are these from of visitors such give to among deal to propose aims It visitors to all not questions. suggestions lead does manual little THIS is show us, itself " an number the poor. a for prayer such that nor wider people, increase the we one altogether more labor from which exempted. is CONTENTS. I. II. III. WHY ORGANIZATION How ORGANIZATION WHAT A HOW IV. WHAT AND V. 14 CONFERENCE CREATE VISITOR is, AND 26 ONE, MAY YOUNG SUGGESTIONS 5 BEGAN, DISTRICT TO A BEGAN CHILDREN FOR DO PERSONS, IN BEHALF 44 OF THE 66 AGED, . VI. VII. VIII. 78 INVESTIGATION, INTEMPERANCE, VISITORS 92 AND VISITED, 107 "GIVE him to direct most commands be may slow The only this of side by and with the We utterly poor silver gold, He themselves be the him to true work poor, that charity, could \ve whereby this call life making neither in should lent benevo- or to of rich." therefore, learn ceasing. un- speak many revival an was to organized we trine. docof give followers it to our bounty asketh," for motto which the yet stand consider to living his cance signifito us receive whose is belonging we who yet since true found bring him taught "as ive These man, nor the laws whom find mand com- civilization is other from Example same scripture moral which it. explaining the unfold to law, ure Script- man. of growth the of one Christian every with beginning now side in race the form, some found his began man in in is asketh" that doubtless, ; BEGAN. ORGANIZATION WHY take ated associ- hold How 6 of thus ourselves castle, he and strengthened into the the when Formerly, his of and bowed the down that shed when the giver of crept into their wretched than the and and chances to men into holy places, but at visible worth in truth strength, and the simplest and spiritual,methods the and earlier its ills. gold, gifts was essayed, least and love first were land, equal every all to no in the unequal man with duced pro- suffering. seized least or upon of goods, temporal good a Equal to to alleviation of Then began thoughtful, Community of and humanity. sympathy for the times large cities, becoming was allied of growth fellowship and The of be to seen was mind the ilization civstroyed, de- prophesied it last little were men among been but, As equal strength. to the lived increased, had went, field. gathered It he rain; and castles brotherhood develop. from passed, they and given of had the of out as golden huts commerce were idea the better worshipped gold beasts the advanced, trade largess scattered people rode knight hand better ism, pauper- relievingsuffering. for ways water break- a rising waves the against find Poor. hands, and, forming other's each the Help to end. in poverty gifts of method Those Organization Began. Why who had less, and be to gifts were the off worse its poverty in these later has and imagination," follows as into creep her idea the friend a city, the expenditure, " to the Even degradation. when times, begun its the after ever, larger its munificent still have to than The exhausted. more darker seemed gold before, no 7 tion civiliza- of the related has of study tially substan- experience during one day. \\ the from yearly subscription. men and that all women were cases and Another name, letter in Lowell, and wished The house, she if sums, who she elsewhere. reasonable, over because her then who sent in Lowell roof list. shall ous gener- good of read She who enclosed we was woman and amount a plied ap- her tribution. con- this how see used. was woman for carefully visited by, letter a names the therefore, she By money The on were aid ; for came Association, asking " " mail early morning head, had had a would the if make request woman and her ance." assiston the seemed should possible,having her sons per- with up a lady's well-known help could this mortgage of names The heard advice "her from opened tain cer- full quite keep three a How 8 children. On make to dollars. such letter learn to insure a had required money was return also the help this to of a returning in asked gave child her him home, her By and into what I propose of the a by, of went these also, to pages She she performed positions. very was cold, her Going and who little ! and a accosted was so money, and before and, Home, one was sewing-circle It work She reached so done. will giving and and ago, Here, street, she of we stating year out. a cent. effected time in those the day's signed by paper a this case. both bit desired At since. looked its detail, was a afternoon, a and purpose. hope I who woman merchants, Temporary who for that of hurriedly along a harp, with X. in labors the ever given. managers trustee a hatchway a Presently, Mrs. by hundred disposing of from prominent fell down he play called and that usual was to man mayor of decided two pages, method life for her moment, the about these another third wished to friend my of in on Poor. case. a A deficit Later consider to whole, the the up the Help to by follow a her money. this simple doing statement of ture expendi- generous Mrs. out X. herself Organization Began. Why did satisfied. feel not anything accomplished. was be must the buy this on needed his for and work, better and their The thought for for She she not was which boys, much One fell which weighing best we problem belonging ly become and later She country in read much a to vital in city lished. estab- plainly that in altogether seemed hands the long hoped being discovered possess, of ing-school even- an the absolutely labor. mind her upon had more there her in behalf money, a X. into what use and all her Mrs. day, be beautiful the from working yet after harvest would is needed care more right direction, since no she still far saw cared one back, also, that boys), was life,for some eyes. came how (seeing The picture. having membered, re- intended children own for happier before scene her She had she that know morrow to- to-day,bringing certain a that see little fruition. day to not Apparently, as late, that too to same and weariness much could She 9 from that the how of " both subject we of unfortunate question may time and was not " alone. herself book a It had first in Europe America. of a city good in Germany thought is " in which developed " io had which How to been divided under all placed of visitors,men the be and and brought this it means, and in way was friends bringing of good the in successful the seed. Dr. Later, of measure world lose their the movement and can your money. your time place. springs in attention somebody, to if you work die introducing give. him find cannot possibly From out and if of Day help you that see asketh somebody go large a that established was living every idea, though to brought achieved him. ment experi- greatly was Glasgow, life the this from Chalmers never to His of proved has result The first,then, Give effect the friendless is reiterated, Come cry sight first tried same humanity of and original with also was By of success practically the may condition. especially during life which new interest poor the that order the who man in see that Elberfeld. at their to go them, Therefore, to miraculous, who with out almost poor discovered world. the are women, upon drop unhappy the sympathetic bear to into where advise educated that subdivided supervision of companies the and needy Poor. and and sections manageable the Help it. ment, mo- in the It seeches bethis by day us ! Give fit,of to yourself, to us your enough or it of pay dis- Organization Began. Why real cover the There need cities. be latter the labor governesses than wages when the of and ; and teachers the time, mean often Miss that is dressmakers Hill almsgiving put down richer so well as " seek 'helping of the them " which to your them.'" of it the enness, idleness,drunk- do "I : cruel the for it. poor, the for the sake believe in its kindness. them- people decreased, I believe happier them, to with learn to protection, in been sake see of energy fatal us." to chance a writes has altogether. as the the I would that is of vice. It is for ! that large proportion a evils the Octavia our nence promismaller earn and sufficient and from and not skilful in their business. are there work, to the considered cooks professed they really need how is sufficient be to supply But people crying continually,"Give What of fact cially espe- present does at into hands a Meanwhile is the demand. the to it is latter the everywhere, public schools of education bring equal American our nowhere labor; sufferers. the in wanted is Labor of beggars no educated of condition n they would For the loss of even yes, of sake which that course inter- happy, friendly,human dependence utmost for renders better be tercours in- sible, imposways of How 12 This A is heard rescued be Dr. in who brought awaken necessity the to wise against pauperism. " he We says, inspire can and in all their may and ; . . in they world this a few years of be " can and be might sins A few cious judi- and and can . . . crime, rich do the poor, any great a tury. cen- classes about of the and these ship relation- different melioration permanent for more in half bring could they as accomplished ever for treasure without we solved re- may society than between which own better a the our combined pauperism connection and of adds, poor with Only by creating a feeling of . society great he all of sense wealth, let them would and of of advancement services and ; accomplish accumulate the " us suppression than strong a the with sympathy energetic minds, to the of short nothing for and effort organized this labor that and duty, identifyourselves through transgressor, portant im- the ing endeavor- in their to and In must to first pauperism people of the light passed was our of to between life ing need- seeking one was "difference to and us. misfortunes. Tuckerman His with women land new their Boston poverty." and men this from Joseph men from in chance a Poor. organization began why was cry the Help to any tion condi- permanent for means Began. Organization Why and pauperism of prevention the 13 crime. "'Faith Of alone interpret can aches and pain alone comprehend bleeds bears its with the dark life; the and the heart that stigma likeness enigma.' of " Christ, and can II. " BEGAN. ORGANIZATION HOW How only the need form it assumed. follows : " began ORGANIZATION which from The it signifies in the but sprang, form not is Boston as " Registration the First, Board the Second, the Fourth, Offices. Agents. and Fifth, Directors. of District the Third, Bureau. chief in teer Volun- the importance, Visitors. The a Registration large of public library, cards on the public various best eye branches ; and, important who to give apply. books, its this wide ladies may than intelligent history carefully strictly library its of tables consult its information ranged ar- from the upon subject all, in room a private kept are unfortunate, and ready of with gentlemen more the which of the help to with instead individuals, like is Bureau how where together, Registrar, to those 1 How 6 in poor it1 has care ask and give ; it is of some sacred the to their own their and relation benefit to them us know that the to York should their recognize their be intimate that in relief they these them. ask do. them is also such Visitors is a for are poor interest our in read office; result their is aiding send to advantage an sources it are and our The It is other facts themselves we to believe decline, owing between to family. a the excellent among the Poor " remembered that obligations religious provide to and all often for possess of intelligent knowledge and value and so, churches conversely, parishes, own do registrationin subject,we : find the for Friendly New fostering the all to cases, what church this Hand-book of as from that Upon It these relief, and, drawing of usually ready well know to ready they consult are as register existing In to they present are many poor. this of them But workers its to wise, especially when kept private. whose " churches the Poor. under to grown Boston, writes: We and America, the Help to bodies the poor the most applicant's an circumstances. Therefore, with their and, to All the all or the Hebrews United of to be taken be to All to this, every to interfere to one them; who congregation any it. referred Charities, which synagogical charity. not belonging case belong referred should Hebrew any be possibility of pretends invariably should care treatment avoid belongs should great baptized to the Society of society dispenses Roman Catholics How members are of reside, and of the All with The management is are once emergencies. Chairman the President the tried poor, as in district of the cards poor found of the cannot only be of members table Chariare known are of sons perhave to their for gent intelli- called be the home kept respecting information here may needing employment, and of St. duplicate registration men advertised ciation, Asso- subject. are part in Poor, Roxbury because Here persons a the practical labor office may of meet Society the some as district ; about of in included of the they the who Provident other reference that work of do agent. of parish twenty-two are Boston The well interest the frequently more number and to of Overseers the because or The and the Paul chosen of gentlemen, President Society. done board this In of de Vincent a and of the strictly organization the month, a the Paul only through authorities of in vested directors, ladies always de come with the fairly affiliated. they Boston dealt they to or Vincent should be relief the limits priest St. of rule, and same their to 17 whose Protestants which to sent Conference the consultation within parish be parish. that under the should President in Organization Began. the or children and time, sent to who an the be pecially escan therefore intelligence 1 How 8 office. called kind a this nature. of find may other the which The in consult to is or The brave him but the " may and This secure not a waste, many is to giver and receiver. always if sary, neces- to under visitors been has " give to a to is be to really must persons in in which With that of and is such our be tent. intermit- order number be must necessarily gather overflowing sympathy is there done sufficient but delay length bearing fruit; of be is in experience exhortation work must for no agent volunteer work daily immediately. such service for committee, do is at if link be committees the whose accepted ences, confer- family a fruition, because and, growth; come the to the asketh" it is slow useful, of and that called constant district one, meet or need the by what struggle various the each there with able and how know day, who getting relief,because ready ors visit- When kind, any ment employ- connecting a assistance. of for weekly. visitors and distress any becomes agent advice agent be may the volunteer Here occur volunteer the bureau regular meetings the at it were, as Society, which central of Poor. arms, are Aid Industrial the of offices These the Help to we workers, use, a all the blessing volunteers, How home-claims Organization Began. and must it is precisely those and whose the most the poor. find some in believe the of finding such educated they people how saw without if they must not be that might leaves number hold would they of it. of work are to of of their day, every the be is that sons per- I believe that if and once reallyuseful workers of unselfish claims. ; public any forward, preserve overworked " come could hundreds that, yet very because on character neglecting nearer that women. are increasing unobtrusive will take who assisted and in advancing difficulty sufficient a in establishing full scope moving tinuity con- sound. are great work is reform foundations One is those it give committees knowledge valuable, are men the of breaks." who understanding work, but and of homes be thus district and Certainly agents and and have together done committee a from bind have we in every agents far time, who the is to spite of changes we by in to deepest are noblest work way of scraps This if the But, claims influence precious broken each whose first ; and come life is the family must we should 19 Let that holds back help and undone, but injures to flect re- us wanted are their and ; vigor,they each not a of us only certain How 20 not too attempt little bit of on* an the need that busied with be to this space brief achieved know it is theirs and grows is this they mite the lack The unfortunate work value burden, est inter- things ; should way one is not in existence future their burden and their but withhold in yoke which of be Its of and the present depend the the tirely en- well-to-do service. light," but to behalf started. ardently the people accept "The I because felt in Boston, deeply its upon who work? time other be can and ; because organization of been and do possess. was has is Within a more the to good others why reason no who such aside thrusts visitor yet wishes for and bestow, to all describe give persons many a week a is more to hours two save time, is easy than cannot of little time a unfortunate. the and associated through, and the present hours given by oughly, thor- for our that year help something by Two duties other one simply, In poor way. average, time the us some patiently it is found great a go it good." helping organized labor, will doing of spread method and, lovingly, wait and gradual take but of each Let much, work of Poor. others. of work the extent the Help to it is indeed undertaken in a any Organization Began. How pointed out to in religion; and, in believed far so of he is loved service will as his us, among Founder the by us work distinctly the is It spirit. frivolous 21 our and be not forgotten. One important the of led has poor to Seth subject : Private benevolence because it is almost therefore of it in and $90,000 found $8,000 doubtful to by a a the year stranger that the of good such of is that be relief? the the limits relief to is less recipients. township to to country, higher motive, a because is the Since said has public relief, to itself States in which year. under out-door within illustration 1876, the a consider to apt Western our Indiana, 1875 always inspired by after markable relief preferable carried, and readily sought the over abolishing public it contains be can by prosperity,for of days small, all seems more receiver, because giving " and large try the experiment is is raised Brooklyn, N.Y., while, in these worth communities which of Low, this Is it not and is,the applicants come if the the of laws. and rules certain upon " pathetic sym- respecting what that relief," people, the Mr. wants (or its equivalent) which of money taxing true views new "out-door called of the into inquiry this results variation in in seen out-door Centre ship, Town- city of Indianapolis. distributed trustee time, a sufficient. the It private nearly has trustee new seems In hardly benevolence of How 22 Centre need real could Township without the the Help to successfully cope small latter Poor. is too relief out-door in its relations This one. in those of spirit differ who contribution one from as and tricate in- too dogmatically by the to theme still open those subject . its extent treated be to present the in vast . the all The sum. . of with who may is mitted sub- learn to any from its with agree conclusions. These are, That out-door pauperism relief, in the United and inevitably States, surely as .increase to ; in That " tends elsewhere, That briefly: and towns in even cities it is not it villages needed; be probably can dispensed with. while ebb, its benefits coupled with relief,which in If sections, its evils thinly settled In the the free relief In in serious basis, it is relieved from in work be to the of of overseer political The ladder. terms, and ends. It is needless are the modify the relief evil, but administration interest case the in of any to weal. common overseers the of is of the or poor Where town party serve of no this or of for hands to the such danger help remedy is controlled for short of office may is known the personal full of harnlet, the States, or effectual funds where. every- chosen are terms is same bottom instrument an there the that, in the say Long politics. city to ably prob- harmfulness is at poor expected officers,out-door to the plishment, accom- would ... office of On sections or for return easy country its chief lowest greatest. are objection. States some of ought country from time same condition out-door be the at the at are to while in be sake the the of How 24 Mrs. one to then X. the to another went less was Help in catholic applicant her fountain-head. She and receiving Mrs. X. a morning's occupation, had she widow, for know of to she had many required. and she would she court, from visit about her friend, the rapped It tenement. with man his a shirt-sleeves morning's work, dirty table, fried beefsteak children and a a general which on and up, was a dirt and mined deterinto of a a fortable com- o'clock. just huge potatoes. playing of X. about A in from sitting down some were air door rolled was Mrs. twelve was what person, Turning side she it. woman. at her excellent an her ask parting to was that give to a door, because understand ready She was surprised was X.'s woman stood always she On the her lady replied who She Mrs. at home, relating woman, years. call her made herself this known sewing way the a friend week's was when of her her and friend, ceived re- rooms found On more. and benevolent the last already there, returning that this into went sewing-circle adjoining, and met also, regularly from rent cerned con- found She here This and widows. known was society. its grasp, only respectable her Poor. before slice Two the disorder of combed un- floor, pre- Organization How vailed. woman this by but, after that brief a wished she clearly, she needed to be that begin is hurriedly volunteer The "how and leading far evil. might it as a to no thing, from old good end. X. least at and made, has gone. began," new cases Mrs. was as thing? some- of organization outgrowth were the attempt so the was visiting successful proved more surely, hundreds against reform. a This with prevail not believed has visitor what but methods ; X. Mrs. Something, but done; visit needs her away. comfited dis- her from understand came and of return explanation to One could speedy place. the abashed somewhat was 25 pervaded health Excellent The Began. as not " an ligent intel- which III. WHAT the question, one of the with the past, in the this of its cities. first of the duty of the he " the that in best and Central it?" in do part, morality, force grappling the the he devote shall to Can nificanc sigthe do has, the least at with the of unfortunate labor unfulfilled present in In advance but by This moment obtaining be, methods energy presented problems the afford can portion religion will all, demands than great ; rules no a "Will been, in tration adminis- compared of be to committees. query change community a the Improvement wrought more the has question future, it?" fill ? the for should necessity to persons officers city district, a consideration, our consider we in So, which down challenge right in charities laid be its be importance. primal of State, a shall Who AND ONE. of government the can CREATE TO HOW IN IS, CONFERENCE DISTRICT A the is future. Board the It of any is District organization, and for of persons the need of to the to lend as they to ability be front. can duties advance our Without from if that, present, are energy Associated the useless The of to parts which service various the ; the the One has giftsof both accomplish ease This of and men with ends which made in intelligencein or the vicinity ; and, constitutes valuable be to that women effects the are proposed. we of private Officers body the proved the of poor Committee, Representatives public Visitors. body a and nounced pro- composed been active the be is District has of Second, among conference. to need the service. the reference and of may district First, the societies working Third, : work we the as sympathy wealth a do, well the perform money. can as of from of special considering such to conference three this past, Charities, of gift money gifts withheld important more .any the of performance far what time such give strict than oned beck- figure-heads, nor to being underrating learned have of as to this ; informed constantly but names, spare that and Not aside set importance, sedulously assistance, their weekly secondary 27 be to never one of matters Conferences. grasp a of tive distinc- required The parative com- difficulties How 28 in Boston, to be this from remarked. fact in this with social for of the such larger company. committee which harmony, of far form and may be this put assured it The is that one as among every its relation that of the the Boston down and ness busi- for reduced been to done, and ; and follow the conference. conference to the give not publications district of we will the the feel find printed possible. between has order laid a of time and will be it has in have expedite can advantage closely as before itself into already paper, Charities greatly to plan work the dispose will I to over brought hour. business on found Associated to administration the as and to serve following of look give advice, will order the guiding So the to and bring ing meet- moment agent thus can the The questions the committee before be not weekly a the order of other. " presented, need as ask here in the ing deal- are those of hour one be to cases value the meeting, business each conference, together come to in each and questions of we is mittees. com- silently recognized need believe We union, separated no business, because have family, we have have that Poor. perfectlynatural We We the Help to been the agent often and visitors discussed; but District have We agents far less visitors than are the of there may which is of would then visitors want given incapacityrespecting details,in sfiould be the cases omitted or informed one tion, direc- ble, possi- of each trict dis- branch of may be lawfully asked of need; what what for the the of may be obtained member public received partment de: in relief,what shelter, what methods labor unprotected and , loans Each respecting protection also, what service, if forgotten. of or the to agent. an whatever committee includes conference what in to person devoted voluntarily supplied, of work be A to committee. the often It committee required qualitiesare be may accomplished. unselfishness, is agent efficient make to remedied. was is what these should cases and agent the upon intelligence and the slow really well devolve work, of Again, visitor,but this that too such In others. way. work record The needs satisfythe to between this gap excellent by excellent it wise other When and remarkably performed, making some the agents kind in of tape. another supply see able red of Some special service be to an visitors. of large variety a 29 different with deal to and rules of beware must we Conferences. transportation; ; where and How 30 children how from not from for of knowledge and " to place suitable Closely related out-door under certain This by law. of man's law " inhumanities take children care of by by this * See the a is one to man. receiving relief a quotation from where Mr. in which, to have the right a greatest is woman's a the injury to public of the kind her fund find are the ity capac- pauper's every Low money How upon large proportion public of of decide to is cities visitors which demand country, that or organized city poor, herself, or difficult and delicate made of from Questions In right of distribution estimate, for instance, to to in restrictions,they " this question for the taxation by relief, considers at one, charity the relief,or raised this to of administration for upon obtained." be relief may by sympathy, conference the If answer, application a this called when possess abilitywhich the give, prompted can but perfectlypossible resource, mean its seat, hold intelligenceto average quickly turn to I ; it is which of persons themselves best superior wisdom, supposed any power a should committee short, the In the saving. for methods Poor. for, and cared be may the Help to ? most cated complimoneys poor.* of previous chapter. laboi How 32 detail. such do to ordinary circumstances, information when remember that The visitingthe individuals various and to The possible, but I view, can There should among the should agent to sufficiently in turn five from minutes' hold bring those chance but out the of it is difficult; back respect. and forth and chairman in in end this this in the their hands interesting points the present, to is apt which business the question interesting,if keep we talking visitors, a able, profit- talk, but to much no and to agreeable I know if advance edge. knowl- wholly ignorant about. be be company, convinced, pose pur- committee. the made persons talked am we whole the some people be is this chance a the required are do to that and interesting should to include the advice care has hand in case to who visitor the for together kept continually before meeting should not only be rience expe- is conference other's best how practical the come meetings such proper is considered officer a and Thought make of getting each of the poor. idea simple under it, especially no from entirelyexempt of obtain to much as perform, communicate and we have well can person Poor. will member Each one as the Help to giving during the every afternoon one a for District the passing the of benefit Conferences. and whole, thus private consideration more watchword Our read Mrs. to the last, but her food needing for obtained school I other The on. the I I able to meeting in how me children called, and I day which been the tell called ailing and Kitchen, to found I I was not could you " : when baby came tary secre- Kelly, giving ago have I the at the hears Diet the her. that hope getting the since, and visit her the from cal practi- Its responds days ten a case. any Mrs. She well Kelly see of name number. and street visitor lady A to fullyunderstood be only conference. of belong Co-operation. is efficacycan limitingand which suggestions over 33 she is all at were could not see them." is There " truant-officer Kelly the I looked broken says weren't them ; had kept call the when I The went up the her house, from day, next the neighbors' but were the to work. couldn't locked so had pretty was and sick Said find no baby icd ; \\.\ day after, I doors woman, because going found I school, and She lone a the chicken-pox them. being Then ago, at found among down-hearted, in week A : children out money silence. moment's a I'd and, them. (the) How 34 work), and all at Just then, " how rather business from So long. the house went in. Going answered I went in a heavy was find could Cruelty I told some back the the him he and and and mother. milk get for to but, ; to their it he long on dren chilin her what met do to again, where Prevention didn't if he supper, a had rouse he the carry them, while I found for said He she miserable police-officerI Society ought money bread first floor downstairs I ran, Children. to trying the stood which mug pitifulsight,and Out the on hungry, sick, know. not asked and a crying, were woman a a wailing, and It still Nobody sleep, just where Five were I did lay emptying after vain. There and flightof stairs,at children the of from, knocked. and bear door came third the up can't broken sounds drunken table. the I room, but in. so I the ; sound the dren chil- heard I the where home hurrying late, when open scribed de- it must week, was a pushed I last I found fallen I That's crying. last night One hear and up, " " into might spoke case, Thursday, been have this of something it dropped he that hoping half meeting the had who gentleman, a understand couldn't I Poor. the Help to know. would children I would could of take distance take some come away to the Conferences. District office of hour and in them of more here." do. go to two while at it,and reached we take children took agent mother poor Our then agent her where, to found Mary known as a thing poor her told great Kelly, comfort her her how us beer cided de- carried elder. two her to carry surprise and she she had grown Island, "The and was she formerly woman. her for sorrow, had explained than work Deer to by bringing taking I Gwynne, the how discouragement, faster to Island." her whom the much obliged was the asked We terriblyabashed was by little,yet of of good, respectable situation, and seeing habit Deer into Auntie to charge carried had week the to in lady Kelly's, myself. in drop so Mrs. baby the been agent seemed get anything come the was not I would to to to once little quiet a agent hear not the train I have thought officer,meanwhile, the to off sent him, there younger the The the left you with When the but happened I : just as to me night ; I so ; " said office last could Whereupon, corner the Unfortunately, since, and town time that by for and prompt, children. the at that home me kind and approaching was take Society, the 35 grieved bor, neigh- a had thought Little beer. aware, until she the was How 36 mastered it her wretched she transferred for where friend her After behave well, officers back town giving every home and the her to After more. kind friend weeping to the to go and ; to her, and her, be her itor vis- the is and once with and longing ises prom- ends case a this will visitor this as trusted, help herself The and and have I think she children." see her to lesson, over again bring again, and, case severe a the I wish establish to watch her for for afternoon. From a such happen never and get work able day. ought woman from doing well, being the up desire her to her. see permission some take now as of promise children would of is her in town, ourselves she how get Women institutions and ; found setts Massachu- the could got we public of to soon assured had we to visitor and knew she try to Intemperate as said, seeing I probation on such she and I would that was, Home So it before away, Island. Deer at in and ; stolen were senses herself to harmful this drink make beer, too, seemed elements dangerous have to Poor. of kind The it. by the Help to this party of can the help illustration,it people each intricacies of in interested other. a It case is easy the is not can to be work same often how see that followed all out District in this way how see In a at session, but one many can multitude of well as :iy of the number, cared for in sent street, not refrained from in and but it not will "n also in shall the agent. and end, to of that r as I help in that It tinual con- cases to the plan, How cannot, stroke of We ask the assist the direction. the and ? keep of when promptly, There lie dissat- ? But comes ;ftycases, the books." in made to of inadequacy, of methods do can our such lies,not be the mind public a and in suffered time. I up of of such result beginning a and generously even " see moment's a hundr keep has rectified ? be this immediate the because fault the much as chance who accomplished by in how one the evil be or have relieve to or cases help requiring misunderstanding a course, pen, that easy be that ih is can and New for instances, been few a Is " to Of hundred visitors. giving appeals over. and order five properly visited are applied to, person is knowledge aid. one having applied ion, in the season. there than more otherwise, or one receive \vho by agent as strikingto districts contain Boston average, an in counsellors families "n it is settled be 37 sa: as six hundred Conferences. seems run "I of visitors, small How 38 How then from present need, the committee as either by or being dropped a called be of investigation,in four families very small assistance of be, A the these anything exists for the labor The old be must which this with rests of excuse aside. set general we work, applicant has as another, until and too We are much all their classified. to needs Of respond It of committees. " in hand bound right will execution to the stand under- district that remember to the but, neglected. cases of of be public. the many A will itself to district condition and be to or care. there chance busy a the " three the their and purpose, the understood from appeals in visits agent to styled willing are committee; large organization pledges to as for be helpers less the number, course, the under the to cases emergencies, who such of company the fortnight, to addition regularly old or formed assist to upon formed, per- body, the such For by once own week, persons " at of one be visitors," to larger their that might committee great of Second, necessary. "assistant to one for be duty visitors; the agent, considered be should a sent case new especial application of because and if Poor. First, Every ? outside, the Help to our are in one attention perfectly course, better How 40 unknown quite were and to will time number whole in if soon in spent are the few, helping we may, we about the upon the "the only and time do do to less well than understand and the have rock in women and has this business committee, in " lose and least, hold at imposing become dreaded will for content that the is,we few, it. The and men sight of we better, with that a must until somewhat been ruts straying much so grapple always educate shall be need to gies ener- organization for can Cut, and and we must general ensnared are the we relief our large body can, the successfully,as very of we help more ahead end We than more and elevate society" unfulfilled. have reduced. until the confine we shall we begging community, everywhere, remain ever, a into district, the own much up as more if recipientsof trying to them Christmas brought made, find one our never shall same be and, ; very is beginning a also, at recorded of and hand, ; when long be Poor. may entirelyto not the us families new attention our to festivals, we other relation Help to idea, the in details. its head Let above water. In Mary this Carpenter, England, the connection, is in worthy the our experience ragged of schools consideration. Miss of She District it says with was the The lifted they were and became of out friends naturally wished hopeful cases it were, as the of district our The them "I feel most be must of deeply," paupers and does do his not mean hitherto that we or how to almost too of to had work part. to "that tion popula- poor influence it from into a ; mob of body a nourished form by of and man room make a a of call. miserable cess, suc- woman a It a public Visiting the the visit only not the entering invited friend, becomes every to visitors. Believing this, any assumes her meet familiar more a change constantly unknown, are and individual poor responsibility,where may the writes by can the it also but be workers." is which hope should semi-paupers self-dependent among who immense our effected this power labor the down those up need the " that and also subject a upon discipliningof the hands difficulties mentioned, be to with on committees. foregoing turn and Teachers own bring This there. sunken her and bottom, very degradation obliged continually, was plunge to old keep to strata. opportunity, class. she but ; had their different a could lowest the upon children her moment 41 she difficulty utmost fixed attention keep Conferences. poor person means abode How 42 for the of obliged see mind but, ; case a How remedy. long undertaking we : without and say, in been triumphant. working too at in army house Octavia loss. a A of this is to and proposition Health, has for of one been in work often only can has success the failures, that are we mean itors vis- our men." many found in A in the ment tene- by Miss York and New governmental the as oversight the pervision, su- reports of suggested Such necessary. benevolent I introduced pursued in and too be as quoted vantage disad- sometimes at I this discouraged, and, lose we in great persuaded more system Hill, Boston. homes the sible pos- would of the with the immeasurably. poor, value of visitors,not in The the But, looking " for partialcure assist failures, the great words, fail met are frequently become too Board all of and more a his to prescribe can possible dislike. distrust am he the authority, and we ; clear at are without go with I We ! cause before visitors many knowledge face made is discovered, once the sometimes times many disease the of nature the to is physician A misery. that Poor. discovering first of purpose the Help to St. Vincent organized charity lies the de organization ; Paul and Society, from as which in Conferences. District derived have we so district it. of continual visitors. They all together desire is chief instead work years after said of visitors, in have less far? improved, has God have and victory. Is I greatened. in humanity It In labor us five carried be methods this upon for sand thou- two Our remains carry its there to not. to the Instead " to visit knowledge of Ozanam, breath, we our believe our habit of grown and alone, families." thousand any Paris dying too visitors. same Society, his we of other old ; their establishment the with mittee com- increase to the the Paul founder, labor each of from de Vincent relieve to burden, more eight a the seeking St. keeps between numbers, twenty be to one no our alive their asking with so experience Constant therefore, a allow we " duty, cers offi- no sympathy and great this from committees, ignorant suggestions, many exempted are 43 our forward faith ject subin into IV. WHAT VISITOR A " How TO and poor, of in the serious but be its bring The must needs family family should the his own a of his honest drunkard constant family own to be hope pressure ignored. give to support neighbor, unless public a see the advantages for. There . trious, indus- to laborer enjoying not be required dissolute threatens the may his at and honest, not be not for be must child, struggling man, to the tax-payer poor children tax-payer he nor his healthy, that be hard-working and, public the the ; the upon upon upon and what the and one consider to only not effect up questions necessary . the upon of . it is lation popu- "is Lowell, public parents The . of very the of part Mrs. produced, upon large. to it, discussing to writes the of children the depraved, cities," most effect for care often of PERSONS. YOUNG AND CHILDREN FOR DO MAY . brought injury; children which should . to bear on What their they children should have unable or number of to been placed child for have right to an who parent should far the and of which is back to in which which as the in satisfied erty pov- which almshouses, or be a parent." a crime or followed themselves twenty that at of abject showed or A duties quite of parent moment. the am public a the streets, may our if given a rightsof "I part first fifteen causes and prisons causes the time recklessness our seen to within " greatest either people held the says: the be it at any have not [if forfeit all claim perform not Tuckerman Dr. that reclaim will parent should indefinite charge after should they years, back institutions], or, this do to able, are them take of support they as in 45 the soon required to No a as be unfit them. toward and, ; Children. for contribute to parents do to years period of life, within are power." our WITHIN OUR the among poor " hoping are words Will POWER. the " do to the and men who women " something visitors these bring " hoi is There reads which now as a statute follows : in Massachusetts " [Acts of 1882, Chap. 270.] SECI for neglects the support of his minor child shall to be vide propun- How 46 ished fine by exceeding not in imprisonment the Help to the dollars, twenty correction of house Poor. by or exceeding not six months. law What is that laws the wish who him granted of One children of wet : such of life and at board estimated by those It would, infant both together through the Massachusetts Asylum ; but of wages by We are a infants the a the then the wet poor nurse, separation, compelled they this hesitates seldom either of to leave be admitted the by the high danger in her the to Infant Medford or ignorant remain often can child and better be should girl,tempted young and undertaken doubt, And Asylum months, have no to its from summer who mother Infant the that summer. the required separated during mother and by having arranged infant young responsibility. a and watchfulness and care a placed be only can made has mothers of care the of neglect who One of wrongs " the mother, to benefit the the the in nurses. exceptional The which in is the specialty of obtains child forms the unfortunate the succor for law. by appear babies writes to framed remains only It see The has people our abused the that save of to enforced. be nature bravely. statutes those for this of neglect. is further the has of cases many chiefly required sentiment moral see in side his upon visitor the clear, therefore, that It is poor curred in- choice. baby How 48 which tried than bring in classes "how know to all who much wish little to or strive to The look a does of tea " bad fatherhood the grade, is passes any of their milk be either of human must summer two or who some look upon. oat-meal, instead the rest. alive all, that at allowed are and criminals whose sooner to to are power, the week health" motherhood problem kind a and children drunkards a for bread, do and right of hand miserable from wretched and these That of and much, and vagrant, abyss during away almost pinched were friendly houses them sending "gives no the have in want, are truant, into "to they who children of in tenement and we crime." or taking homes whether one if out, will fall pauperism Air least at Here Tuckerman, those to child, who, stretched Dr. good, give save vicious or do to ous danger- work." to say," writes I would " the direction. other go regeneration influence to any Poor. nearer us attempts any the Help to of which every all lovers later or face. . Hopeless for the children. merely the as future Not the outlook power in of a to the often teaching grasp at which the . tion salva- seems, lies in masses be solution present but to these gives them mass of sen* . What sational reading, which Our allow moral boys be " it those fine art where of such schools, " could ps not jich old and tastes whole bition am- of the find to evil a be sent to a to ing grow- cially espe- forming gradually, are ten cooking, for To a that few ing requir- weeks, often which they they possessed, lifted are are girls into get capacities lives fifteen to from and the degradations. unmanageable must this knowledge, previously know their tion ambi- is, however, and foundation. only service. from cure girlsfrom if and cooking. taught everything except separate factories highest It classes young formed per- heavy as downward go be labors other the the to may household household House-keepers' a and of toward for the . great reason The frightfullyeasy. respect . necessity to the or widely recognized, for still too deeper. steps good beginning and . certainly quite the are trades any shop-girl seems but ; feel ; lie and are a ing practical train- a be to to refining than have the bag-factories shops "To in 49 occupations." sendee one, in less but . give women domestic and . . Children. for prosperity seems young into a shall girlssuitable the do to girls and institutions, we those have who learned How 50 be to experience sad after that School Industrial inaugurating This a Girls for of has resulted guardianship over whole ." One Visitors their began might who come seek should for wards the paid by to young The few in power drew of report a up their earn and watch Mrs. years ago, girls trained take attention their out board who are describing to this of too clothes." of land, Eng- lack the in institutions seriously wards, the and the the amount Senior, in the has certain board places who its over A Nassau future, over society toward own from town placed thus children those child every This almshouse Mrs. in and legislature. the granted by Aid by county in the all children for legal guardianship of right every provided placed. of Children's taken homes out the Auxiliary created the sonal per- tions. institu- and work upon when children schools committees by securing hold to girl graduating County and almshouse, of company the had Leonard, T. Clara a aim and in ship. guardian- before Association, proposed lead the year Hampden the State, is in every reform public the from ter Dorches- individual system plan remains the took Auxiliary Visitors, who State the great deal a Massachusetts, In done. Poor. the Help to stand to world, great of first topic What Above them, they made of up The by occupations will this turn to of little will be have not yet X. from we " accomplished. " is who will him already learned do become a almost vagrant, the that who ity, authorabstain Tucker- Dr. without and wants it," the must we this into by high where beggar, real those to of of learned Every child," says a gifts to up For "how show cents fountain the gather have recall instead to of few a a listen we least doing. man, other and Such sometimes following truth, pronounced at words. petty of gift Mrs. child, and much will visitors consideration If, however, love, of arms how neglected youth, are response, of the largely England the to boy by a life-long evil. baleful New harmless children street the public institutions. work, now apparently given into been has from our down seem! class another sink out and, with- ; interesting beyond with Compared the which and touching We sea," told stories are to graduates 51 friends seen are criminal " Children. for girls need all,such great do to tion, excep- probably a thief." " In Hamburg, Kellogg, to forbid " a at one time," police regulation went almsgiving in the writes so street." Mr. far as Such How 52 desirable nor be Our misery. yet many she whom from lock them care of the duties this locking of up both nurseries Rule ones the those for schools mother, to early friendly the to often of Teachers for to a as nursery will child idea, the to she the help who has she the bor neigh- of way. call sometimes chance be baby their on will other no if the school kind others kindergartens For age. take some goes, common for But will the work, little children and are where of of prevent there own certainly serious. is to the her the One because years to get ; will day, under be besides five over of preparing difficulty so should sent, eager all kindergartens be children return. ; their in us room, her until and can a children of shall careless the away in friend a seen five little ones, or be must eldest, the four together up to to for and with mother a is such in appeal is in hope itable prof- public opinion who those to response neither what wrong-doing the recognize be but ; that is necessity a Poor. would America in measures the Help to getting school. Although human will nature still be no one being useful by others, is case to and just infinite study to in ways see like its of what another, variety, it relief has ployed em- been U'/iat accomplished. in " do to the In this Children. for fulness use- is following history the way, gaining of hope 53 ed. There was where and nine care of family, livingin a there old. years their and guardianship of but She loved Everybody but for both day one conference able family grandmother a eighteen son now but, nine in and spite of there little,a one and day were ] a her this the came and the cellent ex- an They fact, they to ill,and then by coming a was perfectly. consist of also father, her the in were had a debt; family canary-birds; in to warm the girls two poodle-dogs, big at, and it of children's; more old, and many for Charities to eleven. lish, Eng- appointed husband, years a generous fell case found was " woman, and was the was out and Associated the understand to The of who the who one and grandmother for no or anxiety kind sake own friendly visitor the little church be their She Protestant, her the married every a to her the to in under papers speaking trict, dis- girls,seven children. was beggar her, had held the wards her her. near were expressing great of good They she Canadian, French little who aunt, grandfather, two were certain a of and and herself How 54 by for their it family. of the so ; company with beings, family eleven of allowed to school in this excuses aroused suspicion When down drunken piles of return, six the breakfast. They all the with The boarders and another, must shown not the call how to the boarders could in and be utterly neglected. their their often kept before to up get market-stalls. fightswith taught police, and others, ; and that were officers instructed gained a awaited be the into were the keep of On night, and must in get the rushing ance speaking acquaint- on girls also grandmother they case. they dreaded, dishes at first door duties men would of trembling. eleven were mother's grand- the to the whom day's morning next the seldom the habit a household until work at it was had street, the The washing. them the for were regard woman, into out rooms. particularwhich with they go, and flightsof stairs,past two crazy, and did they ; human four They the also be to meals the persons. to go all in eleven these girls cooked two found pets, inhabited their calling never included was were and ; Poor. baby, baby boarders Four the The her fireside, left again the Help to away. them when their to any clothe* one they even The lie tage advanwere to How 56 but in child the labor the time short a of Assisted visitors Prevention it all was had Cruelty the that home take force. by Society for this in placed the to Children, girls were us officers, necessary to stant con- given agreed Massachusetts ticed en- the time, truant their from of and done, and visitors the by this several children these secretlyand went By when come Poor. away. and relief-givers, had she evidence, necessary time the Help to a the was public institution. had "We which charity such " ' The the of therefore, it is had that the girls of the a in places which the moral As as the Superintendent elder family, which but by the child's unmistakable girl served moral diseases placed was as a symptoms, serve so as children. of thought in a showed that her it country home convalescent sickness We one. cause institution,be- for wise, the to responsibility, better the children belonged hospitals soon which these taken home providing one the influences incurred the placed ' only had and them, removed no fosters. charity new from away often charity' develops had we fearful the from 'old the relief,but and resources; children had outward gives inward checked now ; itself return What the to There it seemed well place which knew we and love that wrote in girl. An sister to the fair with one now to Let chance herself not in report by her friend recount at some were who for found fine It to of all these the and quite sary necesseems a table respec- life. moment a the to of bereft at to once but this support she leave to who people, herself mother, grand- children. her decided church and did her now living relief." useless," has is It girls upon then her send become may for her was average neighbor, near supporting as offered lady deceit like the laundry work, of care undent "It the suddenly was a the weeks, other, but .the way the return accept. the of ment develop- above far soon independent us the to satisfactory. launch thus A her changes or combined the nothing seen family proved and " had further possible her an home a " five After opportunity result until longer, her, essential thought the for give so she and her, would child. a time some opened wisdom of necc" try again, especially as to excellent 57 became soon remained she Children. for ' Home ' do to continues recorded this details,unless principlesof action and the faithful history, we can plans "to arrive for the How 58 provision future their from " : " The Of " only just children may five institutions is serve in POVERTY of some the disease, the provided homes hospitals for as lift them moral of sign placed or is to homes dren chil- taking cause. there be for MATERIAL sufficient is not When ous numer- for them, of treatment diseases. too because long in they will others, upon should Children "3d. stay torn under ranged reason POVERTY. 2d. such be natural their MORAL which rudely " from alone thus protectors. principlesmay i st. OUt Poor. children of natural These heads the Help to One become and to be may to homes, or entirely dependent unable should allowed be institutions these year They term. not fixed be then for act the as selves. them- longest placed in out . families convalescence. for If "4th. moral the the again, to "5th. the home measure where for further children their own makes its should be hospital in home a should care the for children selecting In family, great one disease be will sake, not to taken as turned re- ment. treat- private a taken be pearance ap- find in servants a What merely. should placed for each have We the the children drunken the Marcella it content to child be cherished." record of many families this at and guide visitor some with be their of part and swiftlyaway so will possibly rob a alone. history will looking girl young should be the upon dismay, lent excel- an to encouragement is who critical stand to power hospital. such visitors institution the beyond some flies year from away extend that strange where but, unfortunately, ; or following brief The taken often Home one the of been not in any second ment attach- will stop when work, a is their other Street Surely, sisters and that unfit parents does story 59 brothers near so have and Children. for possible, If be do to a many of career if with not despair. A old, excited years of American young friends. my and Boston. and of deserved After parents at the handsome, was having home, that strong living bright girls,and at the Her were She girl, Mary, just she " her had if the own no interest were twelve of one ate, intemper- North End of fond of ment excite- way, like many restraining place of her ences influ- abode name. visitingthe family nearly two years, How 60 time the all Mary to allow girl to the consent of few weeks and during she returned found the had She as little reckless her by not wish, them teachers at calling her knew, and could not be Her to her was not of felt friends at service compelled prevented School. their out got her to admission to a pride to afforded home friend did deprive The in others, agreed girl worst pronounced arrest. put the afforded guardianship. school, and her ever in such summer failed, to their of autumn sufficient means visitor her than her a unhappy, second yet tant reluc- after but, of despicable till other was a became End parents, forcibly ; had She the drunken them the North the girl. in wretched passed habits wild condition worse a her earn when The to summer vacation Boston. in mother time Mary summer to amusements be absence, Mary before. from won was get family, would The second the for approaching and getting into been companions. bad with and had She board. to kind some she where go desire a father the persuaded friend my in service to Poor. mind in having go the Help to of her except it would be where anywhere stay, and to that opinion Boston her the they age she under useless she character Dorchester What An families watched they of the would sign a friend her. in friend give to This he friend true good the the was his mind. his best consent to resulted ,fe and of the age The as the next the sent would a visitor. that for a not the signing and up till she was fore girl,there- far of of proposed father so a man He the the in daughter change as the the the to get view inter- paper by ship guardian- should reach sixteen. point parents friend the to come but he friend, my if deputy proved himself, giving their of see in that the succeeded He and to do, make to the influence, and father The chance mother years, for say her a go. not to by undertook he to have society family, and, being easily persuaded plan did take to to that in strictly and four Mary's listened sense, and case daughter. of taught father to stead, his children next a was wrote his up the dren's Chil- places giving consent then, the to promised if the her for girl would Here, be 61 society agreed paper guardianship see made child, and for ready will This over. home my then Society,which where charge Children. for application was Aid the do to of was refused the to to get Mary's consent, compel family and her the ; finally, visitor How 62 together persuaded knew she where she Boston. it when in a life at naturally who life. service. shops, into and by to be a found be work and the for strivingfor in to has their of of sew business to of to go any useful in tailors' especiallyfortunate, get are they any and are everywhere compelled rags but girl from trained haved be- themselves ignorant are these can places a earn Wherever pursuits. such rescue to been they store; a are guidance the are they if has loss, and govern They pick or, in the excellent. been sister for have school, but She has cannot Girls They did she home new extremely well, utterly untaught are her, by Mary's unfitted offspring. because, home. who Parents her to younger their all in good. parents her of better before to come went, season. sobered were the -sake her whole her on did she be to took the on effect but November uninviting They heart her never companions fairly put was visitor The could she farm-house lonely a and her; keep to wish evil Her power to work must Poor. also, although her, going was the Help to such a are pittance mere a life and crowded, over- visitor her cause some useful been accomplished. can calling, a uable val- There How 64 offspring,it own them do to help given the Help to be should Poor. idea our this, since it is nature's is of sure so law. success all their of of streets have showing Let into visitor the Children. be them find to and to the assist boys doing are give can of better a doing something not a neglected where by judge of there is to society is, however, a the burden where the visitors. If the to go who is 'and bear willing witness they complain, relieve. dren, chil- Cruelty place a friend which of Prevention only co-workers, and of lives who the dropped a not plan despair Such find miseries who West, condition the for Society may the . no helper, From sixty thousand over especially one a ods meth- this ? than improve to Order hopeful farms. on benevolent What well. boys' news- street-boys is, however, York sent dren, Chil- strengthen to most a The to and Law the away New been of with them Cruelty ready are One dealing send to these hands. of the evening-school, League, feel who truant-officers, the excellent our sonal per- friendship. Prevention the Society for their behind power No the as oversight of friendly visitors certain assist to but a If,however, with to they genuine the cers offi- the will power visitor What drops its the case one of into for Children. their hands, it must thousands, for turn do to examination, testimony,it may proper and it becomes wait only not lack for but, never 65 justice to come of all. at The and in evidence private is never All and power advise for Can their do I visitor will fortunate Yes, who until fair way to of Europe each a good visitor the dianship guar- This and home, make die in more taken this a visit, and who find work for of feel not those industrious society. must quired. re- proved children. such Do soil ; their children and to answer. finished have Court, obtain has to enough we is to future. children three visitors what charge, of anything ask get children Probate find to hearsay as confidential. are their custody is It if the to of for the ihrough gives and, public, children, it will largely the parents unfit themselves appear. " complaints the Where to room; themselves upon is not received, help to cases hesitate a reallywish depend neglect need lady no given " in hearing The and inherited be crushed should become busy compatriots. mother. is in useful our a bers mem- paupers out is case children and been has this a with woman the " ? case on of our useful V. to is she With returned soon eighty their ill. of years do only her bad she was the trying while father of acquaintance. necessary to a over sews very could find long large but neatly, very of part little period else when it her to work always to she through was which and I it beginning, take ; out to-day, slowly. do, however, was her that away, the to could shirts, by In her little Peggy was compel them became he very and and 1860, herself husband her her made ; age. with until maintain to in soldiers' the old period. sewing their and lived sixty this coarsest others, many war contributing age, sewing the father was during support so age, seem premature to Her he time the from do went would ignorance, induced of years years with as with husband Peggy's her her, ills, have attendant fifty-eight than AGED. THE OF now combined poverty, the feebler justify. was is O'HARA PEGGY but BEHALF IN SUGGESTIONS confined and she She during at home and Care of with chiefly, the father, the meet family friend paid family entitled who her givers the length, many of been found with the herself ; and to but depended, having persons last resolved way, maintain that her, to herself, she for necessary require so must her much lodge with and to the suggestion; but, coming her friend, in having found been sent begging in left what earn She was did take not some Peggy stoutlyopposed one a necessity now could to try was support. at better a this to for chiefly ent depend- now stated life, seeing was must manage her. many there she room, had harvest and said, as own also of plan she of Peggy and old hands, that At begging whom on She herself. frankly to experience appeared good a needs her upon her by the relief,and quite agreeable. her friend fore there- died, but and reaping the the comfortable. friends; of hope One and husband continue to found doles them her help. punctual lucrative very for settlement," keep husband overseers occasional old the without certain father wished Peggy " to both impossible was a of 67 of care rent, the to managed Aged. expenses them gave many it and the depressed frame for, indeed, spite of shortly of because remonstrance, after to mind, she " " was she How 68 said that friend Her enough a with day to view The in her even if of bringing pay and bit of child cheerfulness Peggy its love rent this made her from proved a and was and from it,the beneficent poor, At care just for able comfort- coarse But, apart into No care and little changed. room come a corner. the itself without granted was washing had to for weekly. rooms satisfaction. Peggy's received to her found the appearance money the in her for her. bright, and whole found no and cradle baby's food, the she something she to overseers found enough she the the discouraged getting on settlement, a and right thing was what express had with she comfortable money about the of not, little a swered, an- constantly are thought well take you one later,going how her we moment except could for, and ones finding to baby asleep last,she little the see of unusually words after, some six weeks relief any look Peggy for was regard one " of ? But, about the to motherless friend shouldn't Well, Peggy, why hearing in (understanding Peggy this was quite true),then know little child many women listened to " other life miserable. her make with peaceably of ; think and her wrong Poor. live not could she anybody would could she the Help to arid ing sew- this, ence influin life, Care which had and lost Aged. courage and under the sinking was the of 69 and hope desire, early approach of age. Peter Church, old an Italian found and him which the his but way, liked to When he for him to thrown down. cold and go lack about He of had of been and ran a an away puzzle so the on what he institution constant the to lest at earliest do. until would For notice, he he unsafe should be from tried once for a the loss of few few the and weeks, of his misery opportunity. a the Nevertheless, had sight he play getting nourishment. unhappy and losing strength was that tary rudimen- he our was had will and to alone, a own fire a He night came It knew failed; at He offices,and in his at feeble. iiscovered shelter first was chieflyon support. little a day a their had then filth great he tongue sight We himself. at streets make becoming was his tired, and sometimes flute. in whom his native the roam as of poor. lived he or called, is cents cooked for sum taught once he streets small a ten gentlemen to go little,on said He cost, because macaroni ask class living utterlyalone, food would is sometimes better of the destitution. all his he as months, dom freehe that It was some How 70 friend the to whom money to in out the the independent At length, in the An account sufferer would old man's The in friendly this seeing remuneration It is a in the is infirm and their pay Higdons but of saying, came, for sincere the pleasure out to of him care wonder to needy a the for how see left to are cities,forgotten by receiving fiftycents from rent do there to maintenance. paid persons astonishing not written sufficient takes take for attics people, city. received. cause and aged to discovered seventy-five cents and money family willing ear. struggling themselves, proving visitor them in another reply board modest for deaf a was subscribe total paid required. was condition still were the relatives a be all of to turned man soon each week, per his very though they they had of and them, but kindly talk, it a he gave suggested were protection ; old help visitor,to portions plans and for applied small many shelter Poor. interested an his that had he very Meanwhile, the Help to are not wish many and uncleanliness their feeble and that to cases have to their own week to society. It Betty almshouse the where set away honest good go pine a relief some many ; intemperance in, solitary condition induced ; and by where, How 72 distress, and into his chamber. comforter, no hard as let you to was his by five dollars by but and his apparatus, a any public he case should week, " for relief. have which his has The free. two dollars for earning " His 'you Let me do no all He was Poor voted I dollars two food, which see to me all had you been fire,frequented a or that a he as nominally given ' I make with the his for passed sur- to money. of I. helped. parted conference, want even him of as needs these be conference were literarybrother and, having all Overseers was ashamed was for the zealously. he: it. the I to had he enough rent most all,' said * : lady pension a till it what know not gratitude was a had about now supply Our was errands he refused the for not do unwillingness drawings, some To almost What was You His pleasure. a sent it.' lamp, no sheet a wide. feet here,' said see of mattress ' such pillow, no will, again together, three board. a suffered have and his seen stove, remnants again excelsior an once blanket, perhaps now have never fire,no no : Many sewed been was I no furniture. no myself, against forced destitution utter Poor. the Help to he him formed per- it through think I am can.' poorer still, public library Care where for then, raised kindly which "They clergyman it relieve those and alone." visiior the writes in all not been But thought reply : " such a The should The white-haired whose shelteringcare and been were cases them others city to is had a right. certain in impulse, the by ciples prin- the when living alone, woman find to can be some to referred, of and first she best, had followed apparently friendless,is but experience, lead be a and the experiences earn tenderly their Some from it beg; to foregoing doles, relief aged people. find pages chant. mer- a to a suffer, unfriended to age a when and done ideally treated. which of old of able prefer have foregoing that and hard discover to who injured by notion who of barrister, a those yet left in are whom institution an appears from delights who A pension, survivors included sometimes support, surely ginger a English Church, the relief last the had of "Charity good of clerks about which off received and ; him. were family warm fire,chewed too, the by knew cuts He, 73 keep and food alive. Aged. and read of lack keep to could he the of home placed. care we and in But How 74 a is not which home homes the more the crowd finds large in back her burned bridge being half only be sought in order of care to an consideration properly care plicants, ap- those for outside." remain writes Lowell Mrs. to of privileges kind the fore there- number their the for must gives. Also, greater required who confine to the remains grateful the so herself she Means really need who institution is half reduce to to But, her, received. has and those and old the wishes room. behind happy she bounty lonely own grows necessary irksome, and company a in, and ; larger Once rules the find to built, the applicants. often person Poor. is hard full are of the Help to succinctly this on subject: " We constantly coming are speak, hope " to such old, a earn (unless them of into such of our a by, kind one or institution,or relief as will then see as is must) we of help, and casual only thing them pass suitable regular The work relief permanent put them need simply we early stages living. be done perhaps another, it that viduals indi- above they for either " from secure for in the provide to place them to never can to to so cases, sick, people who permanently or chronic on do the not beg. The care following suggestions of the friend aged and are contributed fellow-worker : " for by the a better ful thought- Care and found fit some which shall 2d. If unable relatives the persuaded Church's shall both and friends in the body polity,giving whose one disease To of knowledge opportunities port, sup- and out, in as Peter allowed the of our this past is or we as of have to If relatives vice in others. will not that, because of becoming a do so, they their pauper life life is necessary. been If lessly thoughtor vice pleasant help such a has ners man- should person improvidence, intemperance, encourages a symptom pathetic pleading that done question wisely, intemperance most seeing has a life of necessaries condition saving if work), viduals indi- as end who control, neither the prevent bare fail, who we " the one world's the ? make answer passed by, of this. full sought soul for destitute ? nor (to content his part been for relatives this worn-out and peaceful of and illustrates burden, and work for care well be happiness be the after often can enough earn plan one story should bear to individual, case. If 3d. to of both bring 75 each occupation O'Hara's profit. Peggy a of by ingenious experiment another, to Aged. patient study By st. i the of who should be ought made to to and aid feel negligence, the disgrace falls upon their kin. How 76 Aid therefore must polity to protect infected with should be other any fall to If, into the on swept and the stricken age, and ones; known the life ought of the comes grateful duty If none must be can that see seek to the sum regularly given. followed we will relief our What by be of take regular can and We becoming can encourage a in any to stranger a old it be friends. benevolence for week comfort of plenty semi-starvation, the trouble to cause be- make adequate. done to . from not ployers em- need, necessary weeks not private Let these well the the out found, with been to a proud first claim If of knowledge his be the privilegeof doing good. first is have like be to have who up fault fallen has aged people to been have serious no ought those allowed authorities. abundance our while "slowly eaten or we vate Pri- part savings that " cases are city if,in short, share to or relation the hand, poverty old upon glad this other people Such cases of care ; from its full do not body a almshouse. almshouse sickness is behind blight the by misfortune, away by long in only the as disease. moral than us community the does Poor from come aided charity the Help to prevent dependent upon thrift, and old people strangers ? foster family affection and children for their with those providing their old own have into had worked the been in put are but counsel we that sure the of way friends, been which empty taken, together, stranded left their made bravely into make money, women have in for age. many might need only not How who possible as cant appli- relations,- other to for every often forethought our many in in brothers with and know we use can least at charity, our in parents, and, ; 77 responsibility of sense their sisters for as the Aged. the of Care saved the fall they heart and could way alone, unhappiness and extreme other some a in new have forty, at age, lonely been ones where home, made if all ! VI. INVESTIGATION. science THE understood only " believed half like I those by because argument, original the raised call we one but, in value of degraded or which ; get can by the character, is with surety What in and in face order face a will mistakable un- to learn has been behind it, knowledge a first at strong a carves human the on lines whether be character itself sculptures general. in always must half it, and in world the by " looks his believe who in only is investigation of sight or no out with- study. " The cry, these to far who seem born without It is be to the done, be for a of brave stand if ear, for not a family almshouse, but and, use, to power indeed the no the find we do we can to Perhaps respectable too can often comes lips. own our " ? people world the as it were, What alone. ? heart, and one of much re- How 8o volunteers unfit Miss often without wisely of says this : We be to dealt with, necessity of investigation. by experienced an for difficult A work volunteer to statements certain of touches and formal the is while it a for a verifying to The visitor that the preliminary to cant, appli- could learn be always can little hopes, and, capacities of little following better the done by of uses Mrs. that a and done more man who time before, and had other of benefactions the reader brought fallen and will illustrate investigation than the X., was paper story description mere any describing of mayor be inquiry." The In ; but from separately it would employers. and volunteer a thoroughly more done investigation, the desires the extent, doubt no well of residence, earnings, employment, to personal facts, the a and refer I deal neither ; the hence, is worth it visitingreferences finishing do to undertake. as stances circum- which person, which the great quickly volunteer a of sort is work preliminary work " ... the business. cannot of knowledge full those Poor. for are " Hill Octavia the Help to had down been prominent methods and will to a her be can : " ities perplexremember door by hatchway assisted a some by citizens,who the had Investigation. him given a appended, and Mrs. carried X. abode, and It found ten their that names tions subscrip- work ; but had in his preference his near examined. case had occurred to perfectly able method of returning to her, to ence exist- satisfactory that so of application become proved continued the subscription the had to address district a accident the previous he of have to that and name agent asked years and the the to man was of amount their down. set this the with show, to paper 81 it was hard to work. of None in behalf paper had of visitor trouble time, one date, had and Another also close to be had but out observation help the One of had a twelve last, the totally himself looked headed who up the the paper years. different character may the necessity for illustrating and unfortunate : took found was the man at certainly injured office in use When, Charities man mayor of disabled case. nobody history of of the the signed supposed Associated so, the been the into He unworthy. at of the do to who gentlemen looked ever the the the appeals om a woman scrutiny in to any to Mrs. in order permanent X., Lowell you who really good. n .-:" wished How 82 have to interest the whom into something would be wiser in invested boarder. one helped eldest this to of timely every ten years she was year, honest an America poor, wherein method much since are differ after spirit of the its same the two By the position dollars thus for begged but mortgage, keeping her dren chil- an pendent inde- published papers of way methods : others generally described pattern? administration. our machinery Chiefly in It ... by does Wherein whose in the helping so admirably says from the in " she Ames, first the the heads. better a boarder business, anxiety, and pride the upon adopted Mrs. of one the had she their over and hundred from was children from pay dollars ficient suf- and their rescued to it something. earn to and dwelling debts, expenses, to was money her no which regularly roof In had several delivered felt and only and which comfortable given not beggar, saved sale, began care was a the running children woman thousand They pay house the One woman to trouble the sell. small, the for took mortgage, of a friend a the above to result the was who It mortgage. a on subject, that the worth Poor. while, by a and applied she look to paid after discovered, was the Help to not is the only Investigation. requires that investigated, it makes " main feature the community in the the up which that for the for lodged in giving made The that result of knowledge and failure best reason the a ground is ground plaintiff. of amount and is It be helpless lessened by pendence dethe judicialadministration of nature obtain for want to give of true history will day, be a of lad those sometimes some who makes are seen and only feel that us underlies such of known, not are placing character to investigateis to who persons in order One assumes complaint a Pleas the to reason impossibilityof finding good understood, In Common failure The mistakes half in itself than constantly positions for the is not It cision de- charity." day. every of painstaking local its guide law. of court a ... can of to for trial,looks on to more verdict a certain careful force help Court a it creates ; case seeks it, any bestowing for and moral request a proceedings intelligentprinciple of some has carefully investigationthe that puts each evidence, by be something equivalent tribunal,which or shall case every 83 all success, knowledge is the success. idea of the ing far-reach- investigation,the following interest: about " fifteen years old called How 84 at Aelp to in start He The Chicago. in while received heel and asked Charities, investigate and gladly give wise. Letters well lad himself. of employment accepted but ; time. a was Chicago the the and leading to to would he thought were land Eng- to to in he the from it covered only accident. his pointed ap- phia Philadel- record the but one; kind which at appear address the furnished another him, the From Charity Organization Society, we lad's the has a a send as he money story mania for him. says, for on altogether was for life. vagrant advertised being dead, wish failed he preceding He parents ciated Asso- agents being good, although that untrue. the Philadelphia, offered was false was London learned when Meantime, Also, month one him, cities latter the the of if it believer a was the and Chicago by in elevator Charity Organization Society, the in addresses the accordingly sent were to as to in hurt of assistance some through as who one report but an visitor a England, a running for papers. selling news- from gentleman, endeavors the of business recovering asking town, originallyfrom was then just was the Poor. down office gentleman's a the Help to In running vain They the his are have far contrary, return away to his from they them. Investigation. They of While lad disappeared. his leg bound as his be him cause be to lady's door, a of widely enough to into brought tified no- knowledge the abroad were information; the that with once, police received spread letters,the of at The hoped son. these heard begging we as will case for was money. soon it is to and He up, him gave prodigal waiting were we their of because grief full and respectable working-people, are who 85 better a of way life. The into follows the whose The : boy should " found by sending him to seem to in has already been for him land. on his means parents will a arrest then the office be of the made court, may sities propen- possibilityof him home, any which finding employment Thi at the present first step information the of trainingship, or vagrant the tried,or through to as while the judge His sending of him to on sea. certainly; but taken, by fell,was ference, con- fittingemployment preclude either success the either him, for case sent placed, by until by hold effort An probation," on be him and the upon requested be conference. have to the care vagrant, information that agreed police were a as action of plan has obtained finished, un- been from Charity Organization 86 How Society of London, life of a crime continued of not alms. The consist the In Lowell alms One to find is one. to deal Charities the is, and be should be present is real ready to responsible the and way the be. This is Within come get it. The advised with do well suspect lies the before in past one the the now and together the head should running all be 2d, that the of and ment state- perhaps woman regard will the is then be family, keeps and to there man he that prone Where plans. as there her in is at too are work; no man other out the of ging, beg- two where cases the it not as we find direction. six months, committee aim to facts and, where wife but Mrs. Friendly Now, the has place ; of work. future proper may proof." not " accepting help themselves, excellent, trouble he and his intent family, where woman, ist, that its support lets visitor should the for the ; but his this people is not to accept the charitable condition desire of he to intention visitor a for and seen their a glad of Duties looking perhaps would " is fully established," he and for man and man is the of " point exclusivelywith that he : the says, solicitation mere of remarks all about out "The lately printed by paper important very from Denison only evidence, subject Visitors," she lad the crime. offence the is the on the society; valuable a in upon asking and Edward as gist of preying rescuing deceit begging," "does of for Poor. the Help to have incom- 88 How neighbors offered order bring to children being the offer the with the West the remainder party of West. But the manage ; and languish in the incompetence, gone with long ago, been spared the and her with widow with is a mother nine was they found had contrast for a to them who their of filth of her They the in a city; abode her and fear have sent would so have degradation. of another but (a in left a ing becom- were a factory town, tenement wretched to waste suddenly was in clean, airy to dollars children. utterlydependent difficult history the the enthusiasm suffering and this life in children poor much like hundred the decent family might whole two and ; new for Except hand; and and poverty ceived re- from her preferred have the abode. miserable in the for be came been has except children, would woman this for of rest employment. in Boston mother the of the lunch-baskets hope and, family party could raised was clothes, full Very whole fiftydollars the left with soon raise to hope these for the made delay, a good brief a bread-winners reasonable with After was in children. eldest two chief if the here, sum fifty dollars clearly impossible, was family, an the out Poor. send to this Although the Help to place where beautiful Boston^ Investigation. and, the what buy it important, to to or more into them despair, Their going good a debt. that had had given into and heard, our for hope to their and them giving which could find be them once hole alms asking to Boston. to wretched a far was led in to a children, children, comfort cook what cause Therefore, End North we rejoiced their crowded more her But to returned the for for of. thought train they friends everything income. properly, or, Suddenly, future benevolent large a incapacity either total mother's dinner for them, was, 89 the at indeed was a disappointment. A council decided was held was that and factory town, again elsewhere. could not measures there were two relief and A it to the was sweet it? do eldest mother the thought woman, well two to who found We wishing to girl,who to points of try both a main rewas be in could she private has They therefore, : thought and a off them restraint,wished public were their in was adopted? for all from then, wise, be city: first,the second, , how it and ; send must we reasons getting beyond get only hope But could in the ; case absolutely be compelled what town the that the upon sources. attack; at once. gift for in- How 90 fluencing young the At first. societies in of previous family hoped because for assistance, if better upon necessary shortly,and that we would we were any should none family two, ;!ie this time hear that they ; they but than be see their These old feared. we written them, for and The to by They this to road, we second them, and The result Every day they clergyman the from of the late their is seem town, girl's friend, with " pleaded their trust clothes. or and " is satisfied stories,drawn the lines, well. afraid were improving. was doing last at week a on State comforts we in more the are and went better once was her in and, girl in the taken finding at advice; outside clothes journey had who her to successful. unexpectedly was surprised was amenable to not was off it seemed friend kind hand who her result The to it in had who given just then. The for them relief the substance her that try family reallywas again just then, upon required,but be told was to assistance, visitor exhausted get gladly call the that generous them to withhold to fact years visit to the all moment, same asked The hungry. this the Poor. persuaded girls,was were spite the Help to goes dition. con- experience, Investigation. illustrate what volunteer is service of cannot, is hours, and because ice the appeals have but ; influence more How shall service body said visitors I may very " ? a We time short dependent be " upon : do ; their ization organ- will valuable have teer volun- Pray the and of devoted a ago any to letters. and mistaken known not members all that, inquiries, and this together," understand easily is agents' are depend, interrupted with increase we working only than all value, great very ness busicertain making who one vestigatio in- of at be connection of are far some We work may in that whose must oftentimes, business any we I one agent the make best feel impressions." 1 " by. regularly service of this person whom volunteer sen- in on found upon live we some be to before, at what get course, without it hinted have I 9 I can, myself VII. INTEMPERANCE. " for pity TENDER characteristic it of still them, is There of needs, is there and but ; the We have have our the classes unprotected with together yet and felt have we "charity that short, we past have done received wise thought will." ; our what the crease incities. among a but contempt the among other give to to into greatly and continued have we fall has illiteracy sewing" conscience decrease century it effectual American our and people, thing some- population drunkenness well-to-do in the educated in year be to men. me, the degraded a seen unknown wanting because by year We is seen shall sign as to there, ing grow- duty but men, is feeling resolute of sense charity a better A it appears our there been age. poor however, The good. this as still, before for has poor increased the only not the increased, evils, broken poor, we children and food and have could. In of pau- Intemperance. perized Europe wondered by issue sad Drunkenness of the well the as is of no with " which to of " the contrary, Never give should be then support able grown, they can young, they can kindergartens her If at the to sent better the of If any moment any If the not work. His wife something If the If itor's vis- institution to her. his the upon do father support some to should motto to family. assist do the in excepted will obliged of to labor. visitor's be will he and It lies here sentenced be as deal. nothing family up." a chief locality. that the the visitor our be portion pro- in poor must work no irrevocably, and where to of poor testimony, the be can large this is the of to are the family, he the have and " drinks may I will misery cases for On be, " hospitality. volunteer the say, repelled, very cases,'" because district,there done a Therefore, 'drunken drunken of political economist use ground careless suffering of cities of America. with felt ourselves root have and arms, open our is the of problem our first,then at the into 93 children they for are are very day-nurseries and be put into while she is at work, and cannot and return night. mother drinks, reform, it will be far better be enced influ- for the How 94 children is known what to of the be the visitor placed in ask do? " into taken and we clothe one day, the before than ; soon as that of a we us. do A the can be should his may call complaint the to even if with such we situation less best to port sup- only sink is of arm the go visitor. measures The it incumbent fore, There- family. the law police will no engaged done, however; make support If food them will the upon us yielding. attention our as let make think Massachusetts man good, combine we depends much statutes unless Something elsewhere. and and, and " in family entirely,they the lower feel we we can : give will father the and to can cases danger of continue average sorrowful children " respectable suffer ? is great There then afterward What : is the above Certainly, these pause. cases six children the ble incapa- custody visitors mother the far intelligent, and " puzzling these good or friend, and other Nevertheless, out. witness children, they may guardianship some or Suppose her his for caring of ton), Bos- ultimate is dead father If the family. formatory Re- in bear to the for be to live she being willing visitor the the to sent (if Sherburne at Poor. be should she that the Help to to assist sometimes farther; and, if all the we healthy How g6 drunkenness been " ? the Let cause. accept us therefore, with our our condition of all is done public opinion law be to (who by of one said What demand : hands of divine the mains re- the poor public opinion), that Mr. daily. earnest, the of that among Buffalo, writes with still be Much men. obtain most when even with create they present will there visitors to of work, " : Bishop practical, formally ever temperance cause, " is at in diminishing of once One upon is the and practicable evils the liquor-sellershigh grounds license. by the himself but, ; of characters beautiful identified has done the compare heart Dormer, Ireland, and the same with in recognition a knowledge H. of and do, to beginning are the James and in planted burden law can restraining force no two law that relief public the work license our nine- that this evil. encouraging is not few very from open eyes willing to struggle with It ask who poor pauperism into fallen have city the of tenths are estimated been has ments," commit- the There " reply. It has exceptions." all nearly of the Poor. Directly or indirectly,it " cause was the Help to which we economic of would most intemperance There fees. license base be our ground. viceable ser- is to are plea for If traffic of a high Intemperance. kind any State government, inordinate made Before its harsh or of all charities. In the sums, the State sober duty of hands to number. bar could be license would into the control is poor laborer or sugar without being to beg and whiskey, idle too arc invited often buy impecunious work, the men upon out all of the business. liquor-dealers license the of the portions It would a lying out- city, end liquor,and of pound also tea ^!. a fellows, ashamed willing, however, to sell in They would would o! a wholesale from buy the for the and is will reduce the saloons to vention, pre- in are advance could such candidates groceries for numerous license effective. his wife to are be flicted in- traffic which cases ike money. kept those punish to by would nor to more The a most central between beer. ; drive more the alliance or public it is the as violated would is now, he as unholy whiskey taining main- ground well as High $500 the or in who many anxious, police "pay harm that Saloons morals. or second upon individuals. $1,000 districts where principle is restrictions put Not High in the repair prevent and justification, pay to trifles of consideration to public to all the fee. The no of reckless dealer society. moral when and beyond to government wrong-doing, dangerous upon is the the but pay is taxed citizen, who license to made tice injus- city is guilty of deep injusticetoward or by liquor high them allowing of jails,and courts, be expenses. annually spent sums criminal police forces, be an should those should of to complain to reason they treatment, three-fourths over have saloon-keepers wheels traffic of proportion the increases the expenses, its due bear to and municipal, or degree in impediments unusual puts 97 l"c rest city ordinances, How 98 they lest it costs $500 had we There blocks several selfish the to him hand to and yield is after find a with an encouragement number of Canon drunkenness the . " . They To in indefinite the The lives of so of his will man and license you fee is sible irresponand street the of effect children, only one in of merates enu- terrible more reads passage exposed are briefly as shameful to lect. neg- accidents. cruelty. . the flings shake and in every speaking horrible To is by earned saloons, . woman door, and poor low walk . 2d. "3d. a The not has the not " st. i will and A rum-holes will them. he the the results, last. : dollar for money it is next drinkers. to upon nine " If out cities. our Farrar, follows saloon. of of multiplication than day's work, the seek who his Diminish the block any upon its threshold, cross diminish every will pay when drink, if many who men sickly smile a get drunk. open so thrust not keeper, envying hard, invites clammy are value some others, however, many workingman, has it is, and temptation drink, when poor There wherever are Poor. would Nor $1,000. or beer or license, which license. high whiskey it. their lose the Help to child When . A week ago, a child of . holding seen legs. the . . five remonstrated the on drunken a months with, and pavement, she runs away. " 4th. Not only to cruelty,but to death. A Intemperance. fortnight ago, scalded in it falls of charge are sickness. The writes, after * and worst most "6th. They "7th. And out gets to 8th. worse, These our are One of in felt better was \Yith regard "the cent, and Peek the to lunacy,"-writes the . at treated cases in /" . . . Francis Mr. doctors down the of between connection the . . taint fearful hereditary craving asylums put of lot is the fearful eminent most intemperance." Mr. the are in sin ! trained from awful the lunatic with often . intemperance Peek, still . . drunkard how on dead. something to How . joy left is found . . three of whiskey some exposed children blood, child a the In suicide. morning is, sin. murder. to . Christmas, are the also unconscious in the They drunkard's per " death that exposed "9th. Lastly, " cases." bed, drinks of that " children the Hospital London painful last table, and " Halifax John said, are this men the tal congeni- life.' than of of East this ward going through dreadful to . . . nurse The : woman fireplace. a author visit to the a for Children against and drunken the exposed "5th. They burned found because death, to is child a 99 connected least by twenty them to . continues " : If there be one duty How ioo which incumbent for be action amusements, national of cause there few, is very there facilities in is in It has that, ; that community, has where has drunkenness a had none followed. chiefly look are these place. house hitherto sober before existed, It is to liquors of high must we there public and drinking facilities, of scarcely taken a into introduced of is where corresponding a where the greatest that, where reduced, intemperance evidence been that little ; and in the are all ; that, where at been have decrease etc., which offer to intemperance intemperance any that drink, inducements drinking places, there no are best fairly proved dealers competition compels of way, the obtaining strong for numberless those with taken ... facilities shape what In It is ? success involving providing ... of undue governing of duty citizens. the State can the more as the on State, it is a protection chance another than in then, Poor. universally acknowledged is power the Help to the agement discour- the alcoholic for nution dimi- strength, ment improve- any in this matter. . " Every efforts Band must be . is for redoubled required enlighten public opinion. to of inducement . Hope won formed is a gain. . . The . . . Every battle . by degrees, by steady persistence Intemperance. and i patient endeavor, by bringing public opinion to I in the promised to Mrs. X.'s refer gift to had for little three been of out visits a sleepy and children rather " Poor and stiff.*' i a seemed The They shoes, as withdrew, if day, to she marked boy livin' were it a had and room He scarce made his for rent, we so." And not. So in come chips some I but was very just Whatever worthy the " which soon three adjoining said. being ten mother the an in debt work at however, in cold, " and it twenty cold, the Mary were find found bed cinders fire. used in eldest don't busy family worst, taken of ke ain't all basket all needed the !" man had he had The the room of had husband face-washing, asleep for work looking make than still office She weeks. the by good-looking a her He morning. cleaner the coal. upon guiltless of room. legs in uncombed, man ; looked day, little society. infrequently makes not in the o'clock and several this produced at and . relief Conolly, shoes work effect made children, visitor, who now been . of well-known a . pages the to society by Mary Irishwoman, the earlier again Application that step attained." each approve book I i o shall don't case, they do know. indeed the to it visitor sent five How 102 dollars' worth nothing more of when the still greater and baby and coal of the Poor. shoes, and until family the heard next son, sea- returned, representing woman there because need, had work the Help to been another was more than scarce ever. It is with reasonable hardly three to support. The best visitor to man to come men " may seem, as the a rule. officer will truant get societies and will keep children well the goes are clothed room home, or less work coal ten cents a the make not of out his for him is sufficient to and kept in than other the cold and the his pride and held with- public and day comfort he from to will but, if bare will he get be if his schools children, table dren chil- his family, saving ; that his exertion calculation it as be nourish same for finds man shoes an sons, sea- hard send at word hardest the get employment, altogether leave absolutely If will food broken hotels, which he desirable. the more must general and can " relief for money willing. Meanwhile, are band hus- him, making in possible to get who get is to see Even early appointment. it is do can woman healthy a to a it is far from Indeed, the expect and in order work, to their for the children young go to less finds when both he be How 104 be well so have I qualified in mind where the officer. The and the children were shut and taken they and children again. The are which hangs over combined with attention of the would be far touching and place of has what influence lack who the are man, of our not exercising man in of from home all paid, are isfactory. sat- the day, their wholesome fear of case failure, kindness thus far and kept been good his such them who has force of had brought the sonal perover well as at law, alone. his as certain a saved the this temptation; I know prevent. the to give in women work, private influence question to by and subject of Police by effected men and weak must impossible interestingstories private nature of space, Captain one after been has unceasing priest,have many but in and falling. It those them have to debts the the ents par- but, ; work and decent; rooms from their drank, Both them result is at man truant both suffered The ment, mo- institutions from were home, at the neglected. away months, this ? this benevolent of in separate up behalf at mother were two woman family a assistance father children the in their priest performed with office Poor. speak to such the the Help to least but by The family to Intemperance. arrested in was is he but ; he and starvation, their seemed, until of feared she than rather his she " in for justice to of clothes, and clothes shelter. heard for him all above friends he where His have besought strength no our to had who own Father resist over in of the in lieu found had asked to so long patient felt him. heaven temptation. be God thanked been family had influence his provided silent,he was sold back the to be lower the had he overalls refuge could further and, kneeling there, he him. could the When these with he ; wretched were that, in told was man crept in company prayers but poor; had by a was be " he nothing He the in the room of his future, and others, classes solemn a arrived should help chamber upper forgiveness period further before an him. for The harm doing renewed her that and ; gathered by a intervals, at be might of helped but drink to it as cases many courage, promises. saw withdrawn offered no she good broken when done lost still continued who to patiently,but, with unsuccessfully, intemperance, man self- and restored family striven had who lady be to home. comfortable A respected his respecting carpenter, condition a a now 105 they Then, to He give had io6 tried again God help to and again. to withdrawn raining down figure he as still to endeavor is an old is and had ; three now sober, it one this never but years restored been. his valley he to new the been habit perfectly and the solve. re- which moment, position is his young, has woman determined in that the sorrowful patient him from ago, to dark his longer hope and friend sustain no was silence the his be to He was and to earthly followed tears withdrew, continued who all when Infinite the not Perfect ? of Poor. Would him, save seemed the Help How world his ily, fam- as if VIII. " probably You Octavia in Hill, "that that places VISITED. AND VISITORS all know," dirt disappears cleanly people writes gradually in go Miss and of out frequently." One the in senses laws the the of of which care of the officers and courteous up a of in and attentive in suggestions. of wish assuming the responsibility of recognize that it is their a concerning report they show Statutes about by personal : 8. owner The enter. The or of part a following how great faithful a reform that request the serve pre- decency, are and to all of lowing fol- persons would duty give to the houses the from extracts reporting, to visitors condition the about Health listening We we bring can accompanied law use The order public Board the to clear very taken health is house. are be of visitor a tenement Boston must public the and entering city the duties first by shall be a forced en- " board occupant or health the at his own officer expense shall to order remove the any io8 How nuisance, of source If 10. such of the filth,or within private property, filth,or incurred expenses occupant, same, if he health of had has Every which does air, house building or hall, an occupied . the and be by approved The in. good repair shall be its and so dripping walls, yard, or be of escape at such the of provided in of top form a leak to with of case be shall All stairs ; and all therefrom be shall ratlings,and such building fire, shall rain-water as to kept vent pre- in the with provided be in kept causing dampness or a buildings. house or balusters proper and external Every roof, shall ground area. in have the ventilator, of conveyed or shall buildings. such not as on of sleeping-room, a the inspector every drained so in means the of board the window. of house roof the from house proper inspector fire-escape,or proper owner, permitted directlywith have shall such Every no. or all and . as transom adequate by approved to is communicate not source paid by .the lodging or ventilating or a the tenement which room every with thereof. . 109. nuisance, removed; notice actual existence the be . . comply to caused who person . be to on hours. the shall thereby other or sickness sickness, found fails cause may of cause of cause occupant board order, the Poor. twenty-four or owner the Help to in good repair. Every 112. and good of a sufficient and other may be thereof. the board water-closets, construction buildings, and approved have shall suitable works to necessary, It shall of health shall not or be proper and insure be provided earth-closets, or by with ies, priv- inspector the of doors, traps, soil-pans, arrangements, the efficient lawful, without superintendent of a far so as operation permit health, to from let or suffer or occupy, vaults, cellar, any owner of lessee the every in vear, said the board lodging-house or the wall place,the the agent and renting These in brief the and visitor what moment one no improvement. be whitewashed must it will be If black in kept be done stairs by always be ventilating leading among answer to a the smells broken outer bad too is easy. complain. a There Landlords how or has are is done, do why and do climb we If there must stifle we remember The ? no to up window do been we railings transom apt a ceilings must air, why to for a possibilities year, rail ? of large what great repair, why . these From and . found Contrast the uneven . Board If balusters ? same. of the of the seen see in and be with walls twice so be the on accessible may printed by fail to can them laws possesses. may of find the tenement charge for rents unless owners or having the least at painted or perfectly accessible. quotations, power of owner thereof, shall public owner one any pamphlet and Health of the from extracts little a or collecting the Every some or . October, direct. entry, address agents, or and legiblyposted have the in The . . and April othenvise shall and name of ing, dwell- a room. part or as ceilingsthereof twice months door or house and shall separately lodging-house, any walls 109 underground or tenement any whitewash the of keeper or or occupied be to Visited. and Visitors let one to things How no alone long as be to grown they as the Help to what Poor. and can, they evils these visitor's the by are have default. We Helen this. in fiftypeople had eleven. Chinese The in houses marked Glasgow, of crime, and each of San In two It is in the an a years prevention returns, conviction and cisco Fran- thousand ten within by 1870, ... and ily fam- feet ten worse. health arrest result. the was in change but one hundred that demolished Parliament of In : seven quarter nothing shows Act of space ber remem- " says packed so to poor York, New were living a the of Campbell house tenement and friends the pray of offenders houses tenement ... that And it is in the the generation and present man's retaining of the the " them all the and are steeped many in sin of in the evil beyond are a class istics character- home, but light-heartedness,the affections strong perplexing people. There at find we making brutal most poor. terror They peasant redeeming a future of the that are up reckon. Irish impulses, most coming promise to of mass houses tenement now a power apart, the which, combined, causes the for seek must we . houses and . of out withder ten- that . with every misery. Law plank in should How 1 1 2 must drunkards of less The all. be merely touch degree be will a more than life passes that and giving accredited some find would they double must in any life ers preach- average criminate less to indisthe to this of work description, for result the aright whom among trust of which temporary and more agent to mean learned dozen a to work of those rich would if the and, ; but has with power enough Methods home own underlies . are who her order to . out. outside woman food enough . within, One service. " Such all ways. the they will, is broad broad is thropists Philan- sanitary regulations, of question food from done air,better that living in better reforms knowledge good insure percentage question. what purer this but the on can urge crowding, " one no may Poor. their effect have soon the Help to every investment. " and How to make attractive,and from means every than poorer earned, is for understanding only solution of clean home largest return get the training school is even the public school, and the and dollar to physical salvation, prospect The the smallest even that knowledge a and thus the a better spiritual. . more tion educa- incompetence well-nigh hopeless inefficiencyof classes. . important industrial the . the and Visitors "They and to be cannot train them and that eyes brings about by before have There every ward of Europe better of in the tenant is out energy by whenever him of could "rt in and same scrubbers. " and \Y" tuality punc- proper a reducing in and a his simply, we allow purifying cheering plan is also When disposal our pare com- and of influence, though our can extreme rents done closer who money, restoring . of at of by be rented. of in evils can laws instead work, funds "y of long fostered friend a of gifts The . of apartments any houses. band disaster the more the payment the . the houses be to seem influence the employ and suddenly and where Boston, landlady, enforcing or of of opens tenement fulfillingof the landlord care till oversight. Nothing, however, with society, criminals effort moderate us crowd the see, transplanting. Something official of year, to hundreds are poor a with accomplished." pauperized by remains convulsion refused what is ours, and year have burden let drunkards increase 113 members frightful social some It decent hands and lunatics aside. cast our imbeciles The us. into fold to or with are Visited. it, the encouragless of having have each degree, a little passage How U4 twice scrubbed The girls. and . take of would render the living in of pain to woman would me his wife.'. lives whose * that I we and we a small has been give only sheet people be Charities of live who found of the of are at in Boston. or visited. the office old beating people only ship friend- our In portant all im- teaching, our them." visitor time answered house a you it is all. need is an upon printed asking the S. sincere from portion who wish I hear at not of simple questions condition ' sense much assistance the For learn may do our from said come them help can is drunken, to day. and the the poor room can't good so are on It the dying/ am where things, they while I next other services such the Occasionally, we . . miserable. protect the me put to sion posses- neighbors from lives thing the important them disorderlypeople. may in the confer to us most their merciful most enables saving which benefits many perhaps power a stimulus, a interest extreme an houses the people, by is earned elder the of one . . the Among of the by thus sixpence Poor. itself. work " week a often they the Help to who to the to have can work, relating to houses The of the where tain cer- the the little paper Associated and Visitors need considering the In Visited. of destroying find dwellings altogether, we Charles said If : the question be people, have has or their with Bedford but, the on we have vice, and have not has made forced industrious to by which, it condition. purely such a gain and the fair needs, influence houses as basis of one, and of to a lead those dens of the what laboring and them much cal, physiof object was the by their of experiment its he deavor en- over to reasonable induce of treatment, spiritualimprovement business rate of performance an tered, scat- successful by their of ; citizens. with and worse coming localities,be- speaks contact bettering from out reasonably faithful a The Could thus spondingly corre- been have noxious respectable hoped, might was moral, less landlord, obligations, to at in the instances happy tricts, dis- supplied? district people the other improved other any leave, driven consideration a i. lately of into that to into their as learned some a come insisting upon a has accommodations Starr be to driven in and Theodore believes poor Mr. become has life been the settled having Mr. better known been been of contrary, since have What they manner Street we who that Philadelphia, asked, the that answer of tain cer- " wretched we of Spencer, 115 their was fold:" two- size,rented laboring man How n6 use to the should like the character of old seller, and is work and relieving such struck let but the at coalition is who enlists the slums cases the world, this do in so of methods be a He and crowned will but the end, with an oft' he tles wres- powers, of in wickedness of bitter of darkness the to to be once work. indeed for in fail at face the if he cannot feeble, discouragement, against spiritual right sition oppo- regeneration the for war places.' Nevertheless, the help, ... rulers the as poor no principalities, against against rum- need and the " long however matter, repeated disappointment, against So arouses to obstruct deep opposition, the to seem blow, of formed sources, owners, as of work the to three and one must to writes, he simply visiting the of root in rented politician. is unmolested visitor ; from property that the the opposition the ward the and emphasize," to of style built were ? It arises regeneration. redeemed houses people, men "I the interest fair a city be the decent decent by laboring decent " living,if owned and return of slums the decent to to ? owner Could 2. made be them, to Poor. the Help to this high persevere his effort enduring and Visitors One the of the visitor In Newport, made of friends receive the they given of those in plan We ready people For practice this prospect the matter reason, of a we details,and It is unusual, to see read is of see them) them habit, and look with for them ; and cess suc- if our this report, the writes that : " having into the more than a will year turn to lid p. our great satisfaction which of practice without do educated enough strong to a widely adopted. more secretary any carefullyby result post-officesavings banks, easy wants. benefit it. the lay for the closelyand say, however, is to into its in good work, would some wish saving,our the (or to must winter's report follow much the to allowed suffer,they simple of a their warn anticipation. Surely, be would are it following winter, and for the to all conclusion, In be their everywhere methods not visitors ; and beyond workers would to quite so of company in days these to the is wish followed been tee commit- The 1880 summer full who in even in save. has work of meant plan adopted is our they relief public something The of to peculiar circumstances spring that that, unless up helping people branch of attention watering-place rendering a in important the prime importance. of began a this large question poor of is that 117 most engage specialty,the a so and earliest should which topics Visited. the on make ago we How n8 signed petition a of establishment " " and more which is more helps aroused the to Trouble misfortune the died and whom a find to of the was and mire deeply the of fact them are being have a and meetings for Men whose helped allowed over to the of influence The beneficial. would finding to times. made, visitors need pains go poor lonely are friend at of honest who most last is and agement encour- of better a is often are a many out of clubs, unions, homes to persons, discussion, to taken lifted beginning a expense, application rock the and little search a first Many industry." public the on "How lived when set a into people have relatives, some any lower to wrote, the at once are especially friendly advice, work, Board the buried or proper and paupers It save." can Denison of little people tendency a life. whole scale, drives social been friends for has thousands many they habit moral the kind, Edward solitude. order Ames, it is practised. longer these any which in person in fact that of Mrs. conservative a when gain great a writes the easy set to the for Postmaster-General spending," is also It Poor. banks. such is like Saving the to the Help to hard ciations, asso- very able uncomforthour reading-room by or How 120 intoxicants, of use altogether, as endeavoring still while of into energies chief our coffee-palaces which will one of club a ? the of out of As do evening they they do I would resort feel their pipes must are men's and do ever be . upper let off for club, the there an as that where rooms they they like. it is the can And evening stronghold the in every reason where as out, Even . the and home, at drunkenness. where simple the earnestly point that them use quiet,separate afford not can smoke for resort, not if as ever, rule, how- a ... workingmen to lous ridicu- drinks, concomitant necessary in much do alcoholic on tenfold present our kindly feeling. and social some things, and will They everybody were ' members the admirable are town. dependence they it to being multiplied their large educate all ? to open ' advocate every of establishment restrict Why Coffee-palaces " I ' ask. stituted sub- club ? the are throw to were we if, ment amend- an getting the advocate not and ; procure house public the for "'Why to licensing laws, our best thought be may them with dispense to or Poor. the Help to those rare of cases . premises exclusive is the of use great a coffee-palace of a working- disadvantage and Visitors of the club Visited. forced being since intoxicants premises. this those would who are to get that in the . . mass denial ourselves . in the secure of workingman's Denison he or again, recreation. not self- a practise intoxicants, element, the well-organized club, a beer of fear, generate of into old the is not much hope of the and should classes their education, be to poorer Women introduced working to that study club; and, a family belongs their condition." too, either have must Edward is such towns himself give a writes home," great He head improving schools "in there cannot every I abstinence. again." over The do admission The them. again workingmen moral a cannot drunkenness admit you . where else- going total we mass, with but, would I the ers, teetotal- they attack of expect coffee-palaces would, " And never esprit de corps abuses beer of club. their to principlesof also control to glass When must social the ? . you it leads we which, evil ; no not, or on voluntary to not, on do Why . lead should you of case their at procure urge the In allowed not are it wish they nence absti- total adopt to principles,whether 121 a and club, artisans and dren, chil- into the everywhere physical,moral, till for religious. How 122 need They step willing to are hold the the biscuits to of means himself soft and method is to out upon brings " The The is but ourselves, noble duty which one and of the altogether and has because pages, of the as a and to it is too by nurses sick woman duty. regarding who the serve of Miss the the our ness." busi- poor from these the ject sub- considered there should visits without attained the but if she follows life only learn often which, as labors of not importance every writes cannot the of omitted specialty; all her new scramble can for which fulfil He give things cannot to low. caring been fact that he is to need supreme dollars, and he appear experience the high to but threw The plank. a poor enough, his share have to starving. By place oozy him which both from but biscuits plank, it, and the comfortable. even the rewards and him the throw drink or for the swamp, him make to effort of working keep first gained. in throwing managed eat of the passed, they deal good have man take to point once a method left always him make places they old The Poor. persuaded this difficult but, ; be to the Help to are tain cer- know, knowing, she Nightingale success sick to poor: be " and Visitors As To to raise fall the back cases, with through at all the land, all. To keep the by preventing by nursing the noble art To carry out disease of nursing from of out the its and death of nances appurte- of out ism pauper- broken of sink To drag relief of and up, health. doles. preventing infections or pull to any principles causes your hospitals, or being to never is honor an of back practically the by stopping which disease. spread Florence Craven Whenever with were, the often people lose hands with her own wash out all the disinfect, rub out and lay them for clean room kettle, wash the of to of and dirt old the show to about be them this foulness; sacking fresh it is to result dust, empty the sweep again, fetch patient and and sweep it as unfortunate what bring to must re-create, These feeling and once, bits " has, therefore, nurse ; subject : cleanliness and poor. windows, the down the appalling the shake sick even district The clean. the and reform must of homes order enters, She her. this upon says nurse a enter their home life families whole they such this without and " bread-winner the be appurtenances the that " ? success your through would it not disorder, pull of richest and To which cases " is 123 patients,so your dirt to influence. nurses' the of homes again What ? success your Visited. air and and fireplace,carry and water, carpet and children, and and fill the make the bed. And Every This Miss thus room is her Nightingale glory. tidy,airy room. cleaned She found adds has it again : " always been a pigsty: she kept so. left it a How 124 Help to the Poor. To teach the poor how to small share of goods and talents them to of help give them. tried and with. and worldly a found private one in year charities Boston of body who persons becomes been clear and money to alone goods public in large sum fixed more tion expecta- whose tion degrada- The that us ages away the upon daily deeper. made a truth has of expenditure does to done in this public assistance, and of have given return, live true long dollars and ; of way the been alone only must of have intrusted it is possible we million one the even the gifts,through wanting, brought, by has almost which sort Other Nearly be to proves use alleviate not poverty. then, How, find To a methods ask, we fittinganswer, of other and learned in their we wisdom have the And work. lives ; among but the law which and the perisheth, but is not dead, shepherd these praying and hungry us not the to meat ? the holy, selfhave also devotion we answer law, speaking through children, humble the us, of who their given studied and women the followed Master have we countries sacrificing men be help may to find is this the spiritof and he his of : still sheep, and suffering give the which meat shall and Visitors endure. In homes, and prison cells. the be attics that helped, alone, where we will that It is to It is is impossible When not in where to a to I the spread much see and to hate to just faith have to the what is it can be hoped be fortunate. un- and abundant. from called impossible seems ; and of accomplished number so value poor may news, larger is the contrast good harvest h, little everything." has ourselves and with expenditure, an the lend overestimate in what by very things helped, love, and to let be can to cannot mountains. remove small evils experience cowardly be influence well that it and shut. certain as and door, door that friendly communication so next Evils taught are sometimes the may alone things wrong. reformatories that we differently. let the remember must we taught to told are wretched personal keep to sheltered these our upon poor we are 125 and near to are They often depends When how forget cellars over comfortable our we Visited. thus of bring workers, "From intercourse,
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