Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1879-07-08
PAUPERISM AND CHARITIES.

our over charitable institutions Perhaps the
most difficult of all the trials of the good
natured, ambitious folks, who set up for
charitable, and run the eleemosynary mills of
the land, is that of selecting from the many
objects claiming attention, those which are most
worthy, and the regret that is impossible after
all to take in every case. No matter what
may be the capacity of their bowels of com
passion. 1t would be quite as possible to
supply the crowd of lazzaroni who held up
their naked stumps and hideous determines,
and skeleton babes from the church steps of
Naples or Rome, with bajocci, as to feed all
the gaping mouths which protrude from the
nests of idle, debased and filthy pauperism of
our great cities, or the wandering, thieving
tramps of the highway. There are always, IN
every community, numbers of worthy and
legitimate objects of compassion, who are and
should be, the natural wards of the
community. Families of laborers and mechan-
les reduced to want sometimes by accident,
sometimes by sickness, more frequently by
death Aged and infrm, who have lived be-
yond the common span, and outlived very
often, their natural protectors, cripples, I'M
able to engage in the common pursuits of life,
and strangers thrown into every community,
without means or influence All these are
proper objects of our care and solicitude, and
for all such there is always found comfort and
assistance Unfortunately, these are not the
heaviest tax upon charity. There are always
race of imposters who claim assistance, and
generally get the largest share, but who are
entirely unworthy, and who have acquired
the trick of living on the public without work.
In large cities there are unfortunately people
whose whole lives seem to be devoted to OBJ
jects of benevolence. Many, IN fact We may
say the majority, engage In the work OF active
benevolence from pure, unselhsh motives, but
a great many simply for the notoriety it gives.
One case will illustrate this point. Two gen
tlemen met in my presence one day, and one
of them remarked in the course of converse
ton 90 What unconscionable dogs some of
our dealers are | just paid Tom Griffith sixty |
dollars for a dozen of shirts it's preposter-
GUS Why not send abroad for them =
inquired the other, opening his vest, "there's
a shirt that only cost me thirty dollars in |
Paris, and I'll guarantee it's better than
yours" Now, the point was this: That very man |
was president of benevolent association, one |
department of which was to furnish ladies In |
reduced circumstances, a depot where their
needle work could be sold and the whole
price returned, and also to furnish fine sewing
from orders left at the store but this man
sent always abroad for his linens while his
name stood at the head of the list of charity
which employed women quite his equals, nay
his betters, who would not accept
charity, and whose pride kept them
from applying for work publicly.
Most active among the poor, and in the distri-
button of charity are the ladies' There is in
an Eastern city charity known as the
Nurses Home;" double charity, for while
it gives yourg students practice in obstetrics,
it prepares by regular tuition and practice
e1cellently educated nurses. 1t provides for
poor married women, physician, a nurse,
and two or three dollars weekly for noursh-
ment. lady who was a manager and visitor
OF Inc - Home asked US one Cunuay TO &C
company her to a neighborhood where she
did not like to go alone. We entered the
filthy alley, where in an upper room, over
rag and bottle shop, her patient lived, and she
went up to visit her while stayed below.
Presently she asked US to come up, and we
entered the apartment where we found half
dozen men and girls, all well dressed, seated
around jolly spread of cakes and fruit, and ,
and liberal supply of bottles
and glasses 'What do you think of that2'
asked the lady, for woman living on char l
ityf" "Oh indade, indade man," pleaded the
woman, "we're only goin' to have bit O.
and sure the byes and girls brought =
these things in for a thrate;" land five dol
lars for the priest said my friend. ooh
niver a clint more nor two dollars will he get +
his blissed day., said the poor woman Just n
then the free nurse came in and my lady h
friend turning said, "be good enough to leave L
here at once; these good people who can r
,pend twenty dollars on a christening, can
AXE care of this woman now; and leave di-
'ections, please, at the "Home" that the
doctor is not to call again" 1t was sumner.
md we left the imposter in tears, for she
had lost a nurse, two dollars a week. and a t