Morning journal and courier., 1881-01-03

sections of the country. The U7aion says
 with truth: ''This is delicate subject to
 handle, but some of the philanthropic wo-
 men, who are not so philanthropic as to con-
 sider woman's sphere somewhere else than as
 the inspiring center of pure home, ought
 to study up remedy for the trouble. It is
 not to be expected that New England girls
 are going West husband hunting, and the
 lonely western farmer hasn't the cheek to
 come East, without a suitable srecommend,'
 and prowl about for wife, even if he could
 afford the time and money. There is not the
 least doubt in the world but there are thou
 sands of men in the West whom eastern girls
 would find the best of husbands, and with
 them lead the happiest of lives. But how to
 bring it to pass is the question. A safe solu-
 ton of the difficulty would be worth, in hap
 piness, thousand times more than it would
 cost in pains or money"
 At 8 recent meeting of the Charity Organ
 ization Society of London the Rev. B. H.
 Haddon proposed that Her Majesty's govern ment of the City parochial charities, and ex- plained the great need of such action. Money left for the poor by pious persons in bsEone times is no longer devoted to the purposes for which it was intended. Exclusive of church property it is calculated that the sum of the parochial charities for the poor amounted in 1876 to G1OS, GOO year, sum which has been considerably added to since that date. Evidence given before a royal H. T xl-. x1> ishes search had been made in vain for the resident poor, and in the whole parish of St. Yedast's, Foster lane, only one poor per son had been found. Yet notwithstanding the lack of poor, e3O, ,OO0 year was set down as given in ''doles" Some persons upheld the system; but it was shown that the giving of doles did not tend to the sobriety of the neighborhoods where they were given, and that pauperism was very great in those districts. Then some part of this money left for the poor had been and was being applied to the diminution of the parochial rates of rich bankers and merchants, and to "yestry for promoting, as witness said, goodwill and harmony in the parish. In St. Sepulchre's it required eight wine mer- chants to supply the parish needs in the way of wine. A cellar was kept, some of the wine being for sacra1nental purposes, "some for the poor" and some for the ''vestry meet ings." The money spent on elementary edu cation amounted to SIS, ,O00, but this was not as some of the schools even now were not under inspection. Then some money was spent on testimonials" to out going church wardens, each of the value of $50, and presented at dinner costing $50 more. Then, too, these charities were in no fewer than 1 1850 trusts-a fact presenting in itself vast evil-and the recipients were fre- luently the administrators of these funds. Mir. Haddon suggested that there should be 8 ] law suspending the creation of fresh vested in l .erests in the funds; that royal commission 1 should go into the charters and deeds of these | charities and that there should be a separa- 1 ion of the ecclesiastical from the charity l property. It is melancholy that money left l with such good intentions and for such a | ,ood purpose should be so misused