The Findlay Jeffersonian. [volume] (Findlay, Hancock County, Ohio) 1870-1881, 1874-11-20
OUR EEw YORK LETTER.

NV YORK, November ls.ls7i-
OK SWEET CHARITY.
The mid weather which holds % late
into the season. l. Of great benefit 70 the
/ moor. WHO have some weeks longer 70
save the nard-earned dollars necessary
for fuel and clothing. Relief societies
are taking hold Of the work in time.
| Perhaps 0ac Of the pleasantest sights IN
the city, 70 an eye which looks beyond
the surface OF things i the meeting 70
sew for the poor, held every Thursday
! afternoon, AT the rooms Of St Johns
| Guild, which have before mentioned
as one 81 the kindliest. most active aud
/ truly Christian charities IN the city. At
/ these ROOMS. once "a week. ladies. Of
| every circle in society. meet 10 make up
! clothes for winter. which the poorest uf
| the poor cannot make for themselves
i For Instance, there are many women who
| support small children by going out ar
| days WORK. and who can barely pull to
gether enough 10 keep a roof over their
heads and coarse food in their mouths
by shaving early and late: and how can
such find time 10 make up such clothes
as they could not afford 10 buy without
literally going sleepless. CarewOrn
| mothers who find the sewing and prOvid-
| ing for their families an overtask for
hand and brain, may consider what thev
would do if. in addition TO this. they
| were obliged 20 earn all the groceries.
| the hOuSe-rent and candle ends from
week to week. They will know what
| blessed help j. devised for the Door.
| when the R0Osevelts and the Livingstons
come down with their gold thimbles, in
! company with other unOccupied young
ladies under sixty, Of different parishes,
vino, half out of novelty and half from
| thorough good will, desert the park and
! promenade to sew on gray flannel and
! red, ''unbleached' and calico, in true
! DOrcas fashion. Done by such careful
! hands. the sewing Is of the neatest or
der. / assure you, and young ladies who
scorn plan eewing for their practising
and German lessons, might be put TO
blush by the exquisite neatness of the
cOmmone>t work done by women whose
wealth and position are such as never to
reqqire Them TO touch needle for them
selves II there are women of leisure
who, reading this, would like to help in
such work, / would remind them that
there may be cases close about them
where such skill will not be undervalued.
But il the sister-in-law. with Door health.
anu lllt 2lliflt~Nti = v alt-. anu Tie HtuI1l-
gic neighbor across tine way are provided
for III this respect, nothing is easier than
TO make up plain, substantial clothing
for children of different ages, and send
each garment, closely tied in paper,
through the mail, at an expense of not
over twenty-five cents per package, 10
any relief society IN New York.
THE MAIL PACKAGE BUSINESS.
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packages b. mail instead of express is
coming rapidly into favor The dealers
in this city pay special attention to send
ing orders in this way, and a Il. Stew
art & Co. tell me this branch of their
business sprdng in one month to s., 600,
and goes on with rapidity which is sur
prising and delightful 4 silk dress
pattern was sent from this CITY to San
Francisco, By mail, for fifty ents, which |
would have cost five dollars by express.
Families out West, who long to avail |
themselves of the advantages of the city |
in shopping, should bear this in mind. |
The rate for sending packages exacted |
by our paternal government is only one |
cent for eacI; tIyO ounces, and the firm |
above named say they have never yet
lost anything sent in this way. / know
of lady who proposes to keep her
friends out West supplied with fresh or
anges and the best of coffee, by mail.
There is something ia this, as all who
have tried TO find nice groceries IN small
country places will bear witness. 4 great
deal of fun has been made of Mr. John
Ruskin, the celebrated writer on Art, for
setting up Il pensIoner of his i'm a shop.
and sending out advertisements of it
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the poor know where they can get pure
tea and cO.iec. | wish some of our re-
formers alij Missionaries had the sense to
undertake anything as practically good.
STRIKES.
1t is a curious thing that plain labor
is the scarcest, and when the most men
are out Of employment. that Iaborers
should undertake 10 force the question
of wages but 50 it is. With 80, 600 able
bodied men out of employment in this
city, with IIi ugly winter before them,
during which ia. stoppage of labor from
natural causes will swell this army TO
50, 600, agitalo:s are pushing strikes. No
less than five are being organized at this
time, which. il carried out, viii make
bad work this winter The long
men are organizing "A strike against re-
lucllOn Oh wages WHICH I1e steamship |
and other companies insist upon; willie
the coOpers are about to turn out to op-
pose an edict of the bosses, than no man
in their employ shall belong to Union.
Tie Others are of less Importance, be-
:ause there are less men engaged in them;
but every strike, however small, must
result badly. The employers are not
making money; and TO most of them an
Excuse to shut down is relief rather
.han a damage Therefore they will
lut oppose strikes to any extent, but
permit them TO 90 on. The number of
people out of work makes it easy to get
abor enough to do all they want To
Keep up show of business, and to be
ready for operation when business re
'umes. There will be intense suffering :
a the city this winter. :
TRADE.
Very few men are making money at ,
III in New York, especially those in le-
Ultimate merchandise. The daily sales
If merchandise in the city foot up S1j,-
100, ,000; and one would suppose there |
,ught 10 be some money made ont of
his sum total OF trade, but there is not
The expenses Of running jobbiDg trade
re enormous; and it takes an immense r
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