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youth and its gay PROSPECTS to succor.
ing and cheering aged, mothers plunged II
adversely, Of sisters toI1ing and wearing them.
| selves out to help brothers 1anguishing a,at
| frienuless! There is truly much good IN thf
world unostontatiously performed BY woman
| which tho world ncre1 hears about. It would be
| but narrow policy to inquire into motives. Of
| attempt to square everything off according tc
some sectarian canon. When tho sick are at At
tended to. the abject raized, waits recovareu tle
aged aud frieudlcEs soothed, let u5 be thankful,
aud ask 10 questions.
Latter1y, there has been stir in the direction
now Indicated. While mnny English women
have, to nil appearance, been thinking OF lofty
aud fantastic coiifures, and copiously buncAlnG
dresses, or wasting existence on visionary sen
| settled down to WORKS Of chnrlty
| aud mercy; each selecting somo sro--
| cis,l objects OF solicitulo. L cannot
| but be known that Maria S. Ryo and Miss Levin
Gdoptad o plan for assisting goEe1neases to en1-
grato. Sluco commencing operations twelve
years ago. they hare found honorable occupa-
tions IN tue colonies for about no governesses,
who might otherwise have been pining out their
lives in the home country. Encouraged IN her
good work, Miss Rye widened her sphere Of
'sgutter cllidran,'' aud taking them i'll batcles
to Canada, where she had q Home prepared for
them. The project was enlneutly SUCCESS
full. Tho. children, after passing through u
eagerly sought Tor as "hclps" in respect
able families, and q number Of them aro
adopted. We learn from q little book, entitled
Fdcta, non I1erta Deeds, not Worda), which de-
sc1ibes the benevolent efforts OF thus aud several
other Indies, That Miss 1,ye has crossed the At
lant1c no fewer than fifteen times, aud has sue
ceeded in finding respectable homes aud occupa-
ton for 200 girls" But this is not a!l sha has
made three voyages to Australla and AeW lea-
land. aud tAero procured Situations for 1,5u0
fc,nate servants. Speaking, Of her success in
providing homes for poor children in Canada, q
newspaper of that colony SAYS: - Miss Rye's
scheme goes to the root Of the social isory that
at1licts the poorest class IN Britain. 1t taGes
away its lost and orphan children before they
grow up iuto an ignorant, idle, and vicious, and
therefore dangerous. class OF society. It trans
plants them bore, where they find honles and
nre cared for and trained up into useful aud iu-
dustrions habits becoming part aud parcel OF
our own people,
women in that Of Annie Macpherson, whose
pilanthropic efforts. prior to 1866. were chiefly
expended among tho agricultural laborera oi
Casubridseshlro. Then We heir Of her being
busy in iustructias the poorer class OF children
in one of tho meanest parts of London, where
hundreds OF ]itt1o creatures pick up scauty
subsistence by making matcli-boxes; come Of
them not mora than years Of age, toiliug
to support thriftless mothers, or besotted drunk
cn fathers. From less to moro, Miss 3iacpheg-
that Of Miss Rye. Her operations. however,
were chiefly confined to tho emigration Of orphan
boys, 'sstract Arabs" In May, 1870, she took
q hundred Of these poor children to Canada,
where they were absorbed in the families
of respectable farmers and tradesncn. Return
ing to England, she crossed the Atlantic second
tinac; on this occasion taking 9, ba1.l Of young
girls and young widoTs, whom Bho had been in
vitel to bring out. After making arrangements
for receiving frcsl, tatcEes Of poor children, she
al +.T 1ra,
occupied carrying OF sc;ies OF detachments. To
quote from the work already referred to; Miss
Annie Macpherson has crossed the Atlantic ten
times, taking with her no fewer than 1,S00 Of the
wild street Arabs of the east end Of the metropo-
lis. These she has not only Placed in respectable
families in Canada, but has established an agen-
cv there. of uuraid co-operatorr, who watch
that the boys arc well taken euro Of, and, in
case they lose their situations by any accidcn-
tai cause of their own or their employers, i'm
mcdiatcly lind thcm other occupation. 1t will
thus be seen that as many as 5000 children have
been taken from the CUTTERS and back slums Of
London, and placed in comfortable and respect
ablo ho,aes IN the new country AL houor to
these women! The only fear we havo is, that
their efforts to relieve parents OF their obliGa-
tions Inny help to encourage i1nprovidcnce, and,
as regards tho dissoute, increase the attractions
of London a. Dra,o. This WIS lately pointed
out by US in reference to humorous public chari-
ties in London aad elsewhere. Charitable ct-
forts, whether by Individuals or societies, arc
ouIr commenabio when they do not tend to
create the nlseries which they arc designed to
nssuage. That seems to bo the ouly safe and
proper test for general guidance.
Next, ne have tue sef-Bacritce Of Mary Ner-
1yweather, who devotes herself to iustructing
and morally eievating the girls at large factory
ut H2!sted. Slo gets up FREQ evening school,
reads, teachcs, aud With mlldness tries to re-
claim the dsorderly. The girls were difficult to
deal with, but the adult women were worse, for.
like tho men, thoy freuented the publlc-houses,
md wasted their time and money. Itwas Al No.
1,ll job to counteract these deprayite., but size
lid it. "Auother attraction against Which Miss
had particularly to work were the
penny dances, which we're, OF COURSE accom-
panied with innoaarate drinking and low songs,
and were generally got up in public-honses. BY |
degrees. however. she contrlyed to induce the |
women to leave theu,." VIC have not space to
aeyolentIy disposed woman. Let it suf-
ico to say, Hle has euperintendcd |
he education and training, as well as the drec-
ion, oi 323 nurses, each i'll her way as efficient
II Grst-cl2as Sister Of Charity" Apart from
Which fact, the nursing OF several iirst-class
hospitals il under her management, As we'll as
lie poorer and most equalid districts Of London
Now comes practical beuevoleuce OF differ |
snt kind 1t is the devotion OF Johanna Chandler |
o the poor persons afflicted with paralysis and I
carpenter, heplesHly stricken with paralysis, |
yhoso wife was diving Of consumption, and both |
Il O state of poverty. There was blessing on
Ter efforts. From one thing to another. Miss
''ebtabiished and organized Convales-
.eut Hospital, now doing An Immense amount OF
rood"
Our next heroine, Elizabeth Gilbert, ia Of
ilfcrent category. Born in the lap of luxury,
lie waE, at years Of agc, prost1stcd With scarlet
over from which she recovered only with tho
otal loss OF sight. Under this heavy aflliction,
he was not daunted. With acute Intelligence, |
LIE pursued her education, and became skilled in
1usic, as well as III tho French. German, and
Italian languases. Her own iufrmity led her to
AXE deop interest in the condition Of the blind.
ne organized stuff to look nfter them, estab-
shed a depot III London to find them work. con-
uctel plans for their education, aud now, through
or various agencies, nearly 1000 blind people
ave in great part placed in thesr hands the means
f supplying themselves by their own labor with
ue recessaries OF life" Ono Of tho specialtiea
f lier benevolent efforts has been to provide
ork for poor blind persons In their own
ONES throughout the country. TIC opera
IONS Of the society she has establiehed extends
yer twenty counties in England. That estima-
10 lady will have her reward.
We almost daily read OF death-rate. In eomo
3wna it is much higher than III otharH. Bad
rainage, impure air, deficient house accomrno-
alton, cold aud wretcheduess, arc predominant
anses Of a bish death-rats. In almost all sucll |
1ses, tho mortality is principally among chill