The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1874-11-19
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OUR NEW YORK LETTER
1na Sweet Charity, with a Suggestion
i'ho Hail Package Business---
Gtrikeg---Tra6e---Real
Eigtate--Ihe Wealth
er---Brsiness.
NEW YORK, Nov.--1674
ONE SWEET CHARITY.


.Ehe mild weather which holds 30 late
p.o the season IS Of great benefit to the
,oor, who have some weeks longer to
aTa the nard earned dollars necessary
Gr fuel and clothing. Relief societies
.i'a taking hold Of the work in time.
+ maps one OF the pleasentest sights in
Eaa clty, to an eye which looks beyond
be surface OF things, is the meeting to
- fol the poor, held every Thursday
Il .Rf.z2 Z sl,a rnn1naz-1-f Sss.- e-'l.a-->>
A3aDSa 1.lA.3a / have before mentlonedas as
ore ofths kinGEegt, most acJi7e, and
trdy Cristain charities IL the city. At
thse rQons, once a week, Ia61e,s OF every
ci2le ii society meet to make up clothes
fo1wintr, which the poorest OF hepoor
aralob .ble TO make for themselves. For
lnslnce, there are naany women VINO
SUPPORT small children by going out at
day work, and who can barely pull TO-
gater enough TO keep roof over their
heRs ana coarse food in their mouths by
slang early and late, and how can such
fintine to make up such clothes as
thecould not afford TO buy without lit
erag going sleepless 2 Careworn mothers
whdind the sewing and providing for
thelfamllies an Oyertask tor hand and
bTa, may consider what they would
do ia addition TO this, they were
oblisd to earn all the groceries, the
hou-rert, and candle ends from week
so w9k. They viii know what blessed
helps devised for the poor, when the
R.eoTelts and the I4iyingst0nes comes
dowwith tbeir gold thimbles, in com
panyith other un0ccupied young ladies
1lndesix5y, of different parishes, who,
half Il of novelty and hall from thorough
goo(srill, desert the park and promenade
osepn gray flannel andred, ''unbleach-
ed al calico, in true Dorcas fashion.
D0nd3y such careful hands, the sewing
is OF le neatest order, / assure you, and
youn ladies who scorn plain sewing for
theit'practisine' and German lessons,
mighbe put to blush by the exquisite
neatEBs OF the commonest work done by
woald whose wealth and position are
such never to require them to touch
needl for themselves. If there are
WONG OF leasure who, reading this,
wouidike TO help in such work, iWould
remi1l them that there may be cases
close bout them where such skill would
not bslnderyalued But If the sister
IN lawith poor health, ,and the minister S
wife, 1d the neuralgia neighbOr across
the WI aye provided FOR IN this respect,
noting is easier than to mike up plain
substatiai clothing for children Of DIFF
fereniges, and send each garment, closely
tied i paper, through the mail, at an
expe1e OF not oyer twenty-five cents a
packae, to anyreliefsocietyi in New York.
faF Matt, PACKAGE BUSINESS.
By tn way, this business Of sending
packaes by mail instead OF express IS
comm rapidly INTO favor. The dealers
in thicity pay special attention to send
ing orecs IL this way, and A. L. Stewart
s. Co.eli me this branch Of their busl-
ness srang in one month to s., 900, and
goes O with rapidity which is surprising
and ddghtful A silk dress pattern was
sent fim this city to San Francisco, by
mail, IL fifty cents, which would have
cost fie dollars by express. Families
out Wst, who long to avail themselves
of thedvantages Of the city in shopping
shouldbear this in mind. The rate for
sendir packages exacted by our pater-
| naHgoernInent is only one cent for each
| two onces, and the firm above named
say thy have never yet lost anything
sent nthis way. know of a lady who
proposs to keep her friends out West
supplid with fresh oranges and the bes'
| of coffe by mail.
| Thee is something in this, as all who
/ have tied to find lice groceries i'll small
countr places VIII bear witness. 4
| great cal of fun has been made Of Mr.
John suskin, the celebrated Englisl
writer N Art, for setting up pensione