The Osceola times., 1876-06-17

IL than he did what was going on at the
town OF Seattle in Washington Territory.
Some OF the Charities OF the Fashion.
able Women of New York.
That fashionable women are seldom,
and perhaps never, counted among the
scmispiritual Inhabitants of the earth il
too gross a mistake to leave uncorrected.
The noble charities which have been
originated andexecuted upon the prompt
ings OF lofty impulses, and steadily main.
tained in New York, are sweet, pure and
loving enough TO redeem the vilest So.
dom from an impending doom, and fash.
ionable women maintain them almost ex-
clusivcly.
A hereditary descent of poverty is not
the saddest phase of want in New York,
nor indeed anywhere else. 1t is upon
those who have been lowered from beau.
tiful sights, from sweet sounds and from
pure atmospheres, that the summer mis-
sions OF our city fall like blessings direct
from heaven. To the finer-fbred of our
languishing poor whom misfortune has
thrown into hospitals, when the season of
suffering helplessncss came, the missions
OF our summer saints are especially sweet
and healing.
There is pretty spot on Staten Island,
where the tall trees wave, the flowers
bloom, and wild birds sing the whole day
long. Angels OF mercy go there and make
summer rest for poor children who have
been i'll, or who may be if they spend the
entire hot season in vitiated air and upon
wretched food. A week, fortnight, or a
month is given 10 each little creature, ac-
cording as he or she requires the change,
| and frivolous, fashionable women are the
devisers, providers and executors of this
beautiful hope for the children. They
are the ministering angels, at whom the
scorners of life's best and loveliest aim
their fiercest sentences.
VICIOUS, uncomely little wretches are
carried away from their unwholcsome
surroundings, and they become pretty
little Christians when hunger ceases to
torture and miasmas no longer poison
them. The power OF the beautiful and
the peaceful in nature is potent with the
street children of New York. The influ-
ence of evil seems to have full possession
in certain localities, but the hand of the
frivolous angel" exercises it Just as long
as she retains her hold upon the victim,
and when she loosens her grasp the fiend
can never grip the child so fiercely again.
The hand of good woman, albeit she is
frivolous and fashionable, has left a po-
tent charm with the child that holds the
devil at disadvantage thencelorth
Another set of fashionable butterflies
as Systematically sustain a home for i'm.
poverished young gentle-women who de.
sire to reduce their poor little accomplish
ments 30 bread and butter. The ladies
find, If not agreeable, still tolerablc posi-.
tions for them among their own friends,
and in the meantime furnish them with
refined home at trifling cost. Wise coun-
sci is found among these frivolous crea-
lures, whose regulations for folly and
idlcness are as fixed as are their good
deeds. A set of them arrange their times
of care and use, and nothing that pleas
urc can do TO allure them is potent
enough TO win them from their selfap.
pointed tasks. Books, magazines, musical
instruments, pictures, etc, are consid-
cred necessary portion of this work,
and those who support the home deduct
this much from their pomps and vanites,
but the scoher never writes these things
down against their names. To think
evil, and to speak it of the woman of
fashion appears to give unending salts
faction 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 relin.
quish the feast and the dance, whenevcra
call comes TO them to be merciful, are still
strong in their intention. Other similar
angels have joined them. 1t is not exactly
secret society, but those who receive
ministratons from it in sickness and dis
trcss are never made aware of the real
names Of their bene factors. Each Young
lady assumes another name when she puts
ON her nurses gown of soft gray, and the
white cap of her order. This single name
is of her own choosing, and with prefix
Of sister, to give it both tenderness and
a familiarity 10 the ears of the suffering,
she performs her office intelligently and
unwearicdly, but when she passes out of
the sick room she is as utterly lost TO the
one who would be grateful to her as if
she had passed into Heaven itself, instead
Of into the gay scenes which sour imagi.
nation picture to the public as wholly
destructive to the better sentiments Of
womankind.
These young angels record both their
real and assumed names and residences
with certain trustworthy clergymen and
physicians, and then add the dates of
each month when they will hold them
selves in momentary readiness to attend
70 cases for service as nurses, watchers