The home journal. (Winchester, Tenn.) 1858-188?, 1876-06-22

That fashionable women arc seldom
ana perhaps never, counted among tn,
semi spiritual Inhabitants Of the earth i
too gross Il mistake TO leave uncorrrctcd
The noble charities which have beer
originated andcXecutcd uponth prompt
IngS0i lofty impulses, and steadily main
tanned in New York, are sweet, pure and
loving enough to redeem the yiIcst So
dom from an impending doom, and fash.
lOnablc women maintain them aImOstCX-
cIuSiycIy.
A hereditary descent Of poverty is not
the 8addcSt phase Of want in New York,
nor indeed anywhere else. 1t is upon
those who have been lowered from beau
tllul sights, from sweet sounds and from
pure a%lmOsphcrcS, that the summer mis-
slonS OF our city fall like blessings direct
from heaven. To the fincr-iibrcd Of our
lanruishing poor whom misfortune has
thrown into hospitals, when the scasono
suffering hcIplcssncss came, the missions
OF our summer saints are especially sweet
aud healing.
There is Il pretty spot ON Staten Island,
where the tall trees wave, the flowers
bloom, and wild birds sing the whole day
long. Angels Of mercy 60 there and make
Il summer rest for poor children who have
been i'll, or who may be if they spend the
entire hot season in Initiated air and upon
wrctchcd food. A week, fortnight, or u
month is given to each little creature, ac-
cording rs he or She requires the change,
and frivolous, fashionable women are the
dcyi,crS, providers and executors Of this
beautiful hope for the children. They
the ministcring angels, at whom the
Scorncrs Of LIES best and Ioyclicst aim
their iicrCcSt sentences.
Vicious, uncOmcIy little wrctchcs are
carried away from their unwholcsomc
surroundings, and they become pretty
Christians when hunger ceases to
torture and miaSmaS no Ionacr poison
The power OF the beautiful and
the peaceful in nature is potent with the
street children OF New York. The innu-
cncc of evil seems to have full possession
in certain localities, but the hand of the
" frivolous angel" exercises it just rs long
rs she retains her hold upon the victim,
and when she loOsenS her grasp the licnd
can never grip the child so l%icrccIy again.
The hand Of good woman, albeit She is
frivolous and fashionable. has left = po-
tent charm with the child that holds the
devil at disadvantage thcncclorth.
Another set Of fashionable butterflies
AS Systematically sustain Il home for i'm
povcrlSIIcd young gcntlc-womcn who de
to reduce thcirpoor little accomplish
mcnts 10 bread and butter. The ladies
lind, it not agreeable, still toIcrahlc posi-.
lions for them among their own friends,
in the meantime furnish them with a
home ut thrilling cost. Wise coun-
'cl Is found among these frivolous crca-
.nrcS, whose regulations for folly and
dIcncss are as fixed as are their good
leeds. A set OF them arrange their times
# care and use, and nothing that pleas
ire can do to allure them is potent
'nough to win them from their sclf-ap.
,ointed tasks. Books, magazines, musical
Instruments, pictures, etc, are cousid.
red a necessary portion of this work,
md those who support the home deduct
his much from their pompsand vanitics,
nut the sc0ilGr never writes these things
against their names. To think
vii, and to speak it OF the woman off
ashton appears to give Iincnding salts
to many of our cynical critics.
To the society of the sisters OF the
strangers | have before referred, and two
years have passed since they were men,
Toned, but these same angels who rrlin.
Inish the feast and the dance, %wheneycro
all comes to them to he mcrciful, are still
'trong in their intention. Other similar
have joined them. Itisnotcxactly
secret society, but those who receive
illustrations from it in sickness and dis
rcsS are never made aware of the real
.amcs OF their bnnc actors. Each Young
ldy aSsumcs another name when she puts
II her nurses gown of soft gray, and the
'hitc cap of her order. This single name
of her W choosing, and with a prefix
sister, to give it both a tenderness and
familiarity to the ears of the suffering,
lc performs her office intelligently and
nweariedly, but when she passes out of
lie sick room she is As utterly lost to the
le who would be grateful to her as if
e had passed into Heaven itself, instead
into the gay genes which sour imagi-
,tion picture to the public us wholly
'structive to the better sentiments Of
omankind.
These young angels record both their
and assumed names and residences
it'll certain Trustworthy clcrgymen and =,
lysicians, and then add the dates of !
icll month when they will hold them. ,
Ives in momcnlary readiness To attend
cases for service rs nurses, watchers {