The morning star and Catholic messenger. [volume] (New Orleans [La.]) 1868-1881, 1872-05-05

One Of my favorite recollections is tina
OF @ lady who, thirty odd years ago. wa
newly married, and was, with her h1sbap d
q vegetarian, then termed "Grahamite.
Sne hao young wlfe's visits from those wht
had been friends when che needed such. as
vel! as relatives from homes fifty to a hmm.
dred miles distant, each of them scrutiniz.
ing with keen eyes her bearing in her new
role OF housekeeper and hostess, without
knowledge Of or the faintest sympathy
WIN her peculiar ideas of diet. At meal
time, she babe them welcome to sncb food
as she had prepared for her husband and
herself-no tea, no coffee, no meat. NO CON
dimebt but salt-abundant and whoIesone
no doubt, bat as plain and unstim nlating
as that of any hermit in the wilderness. or
monk in his cell. Had she explained or
apologiEed, the charm would have bean
broken but she simply preferred what she
had, and evinced no consciousness that il
was other than they We're accustomed to
or might have chosen. Her manner i'm
Piied-"I know you have not come hither
for food, for that you have at home; and
am sure you prefer more of my society with
viands which I must leave YOU alone to
prepare" II they were tolerably we'll bred,
this pleased them If not, what matter If
they went soon and never came again.
The better minds of the age are ponder
ing thousand projects which aim to help
yo ".o"y s,uu ass"aSe inc paDgs OF want.
How to make the weekly or monthly sti-
pend Of the indifferent toiler go further, is
a problem which fifty taxes the attention
of the generous and humane. They have
studied long and with Indifferent success
to enhance his means: suppose they were
TO give one year to the problem-"H How
shall we most wisely and effectively cir
cumscribe his needsi" Here is a Door
family living in great and dear city on a
total income of 5000 per annum-hardlv
able, they say, to pay the rent each .aontI.
though their rooms will barely hold them.
and each member works that can earn a
dime how much of that 5000, think You.
goes for what they might better do with,
out Suppose they saved and wisely in
vested what they thus squandered, how
long would they dread the peremptorv
knock of the t-collector, or turn pale at
the thought of a week without work.
How to improve and elevate the condi-
problem of the age. The laborer is no more
, slave he Is not even serf; he has re-
bounced tutelage aud guardianship. sLord
'f himself, that heritage of VICE." he de-
nands more leisure, more culture, more
He Indignantly asks why,
producing everything, he should possess
md enjoy nothing. He is mistaken every
way: lie neither possesses every thing nor
Enjoys nothing. The capitalist, who pays
or the labor which builds a railroad, is as
ruIy a producer as though he toiled daily
N the gradually extending track with pick
nd spade; SO is the engineer and the con-
FACTOR. The rudest track-layer NAV be
art owner of the road when finished. If he
will devote to this eed so much of his earn
nss as ne invests in liquor, tobacco, ETC.,
'hlie, II he weekly spends all he. earns, be
as no right and no claim to property in
hat road. He may have laid every rail,
nd yet he owns nothing, if he has eaten (
II his l.. =
armed them.
=" Shall we ever he able to reduce the '
sual days work to eight hours Z" q
Yes; If the labOrer will consent to forego i
eantime the indulgence of all factious ap- O
cities. Eight hours faithful labor per day C
Ill provide for all our real needs; while Il
ghteen will not suffice to satIate all our a
cravings for sensual iDdul- i:
.nce. The young mechanic in great city, b
no earns from SIS to &25 per week, may b
silly accustOm himself to dance and dciDk 81
up 80 fast as he receives it, though he a
ight and should save half of it: and he el
no saves nothing the first year of his Iude- a
ndence of -pareatal guardianship, will tc
rely begiP to save thereafter. "It is the %
st step that COSTS" in this as in most lii
ings. The youth who has saved half his la
st years earnings will seldom cease to bl
We thereafter. tv
have heard men talk of Benjamin Frank W.
q pithy inaxims as though they had made Wi
countrym men sordid and lneanly parsi- A.
nious-s nation Of misers and skinfiints. va va
all to see proof of this. Cor charities a no
} muniicent, not to say essentatious-jta To-,
tness those evoked by the desolation of TO- TO-
icago. During forty years of observa- i'a
n in this city, have seldom known a th
r appeal to her benevelence to pass un- Sn
,ded. If giving weuld extipgnish pau oi.
ism, think one Thousand Millions of on
lars would readily be subscribed and o oe
d to achieve that end. Alasi we all az
Nv that almsgiving would rot achieve it Oh
hat, after we had raised and disbursed tb.
full billion, there would be mere beg in
s and moro suffering from want than an
re now are. Battling out the ocean is a II; IN
onal undertaking compared Wild, that nf
pauperism by al1ssiVing. If
he great need of our age is manliRess- are
{ spirit of selfrespect and self-4rust M
CHI silently says: "You may have mil ,ha
8; l have nothing; am content with i In>
It earn, and do not want your millions tha
il shall have fairly earned them. lido w tnI ,
seek your company nor value you one aid
more for your millions: 1 envy you n,o
their possession hate you no more 70
, love you because of your wealth of :
aid you ever need my services, you can Gin