The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1882-11-30
In the Bottom Of a Breakfast
Cup.

Winter clothes are pretty well out
of camphor and cedar by this time /;
they have been all brought out of
the trunks and brushed up for use.
But all winter habits are not yet
aired, nor even sorted over. To-day
is a good season for it. There is
plenty Of time to think it over dur
ing the holiday. Given so much
that you can spare from your
monthly or yearly incomes to help
other folks along, this is the begin
ming of the season for doing it. Do
nation days, the celebrations at sun
dry institutions, recall them at this
season. Most of them manage to
have a good spread of eatables to-
day; to put little bit of festivity
and pumpkin pie into the years
routine. But there is probably not
one that does not need something,
and most of them need a good deal.
The Country Week cried hold
enough at the end of its season,
but it is the only instance on record
lately, and then it has a season,
while the rest has all the year. 1t
is only now and then, in a Centen-
NAL exhibition, or the Ledger alma
nae, that the number of our excel
lent helping hands is counted or
even catalogucd. 1t is a matter of
pride to Philadelphia whenever the
list is read. 1t is still more a mat
ter Of pride when they are visited
and ShOW-aS most of them can
shoW-What a deal they do with
economy. The good women who
manage, really manage these insti-
buttons, are far more careful Of what
is spent, to make every penny go the
fartheSt, than they are in their own
homes. They always feel the pinch
of Strengthened income and plan
accordingly,
The existence Of the organized
charity ward committees have
taught many a hand to refrain from
street giving. Now you can more
safely pass a petitioner by than for
merly. Every police officer ought
to know where the ward officer is
of his district, so that the really
needy can be passed along to some
investigation. There is doubtless a
small fortune saved, every winter
now, by Withholding the money
that used to go to bold-faced chill
dren, whining man or woman in rags
1t is nearly ali well saved, for eX-
perience shows that there are few
cases of real need that go about the
streets. But what is saved from
the Jramps and imposters,
should it not gv, or a part of it at
least, to the society whose exis-
tence is the reason of Jour saving -?
If one has saved a dollar in loose
pennies, during the last two months,
that would have gone to sidewalk
beggars, surely a portion Of it, in a
lump, might be handed over to the
office that undertakes to make your
conscience free in this respect. You
are not sure of the office-do not
know whether it really meets the
need. Then it is an easy thing to
drop in upon its days doings, and if
it does net yet satisfy you, make a
further visit to some of the business
assemblies of its management. A
trifing contribution makes you a
member. and you can say your say
on all points. This does not cut off
the individual lifts and surprises
that you are able to give now and
then to suffering that you yourself
have examined and known all
about, and have sort Of trusteeship
to relieve while it lasts. But it does
enter upon the far greater region of
restitution which no one individual
can be satisfied about.
@Here, then, are all the organiza-
tiOns hard at work while the reader,
by the fireside on Thanksgiving
morning, may make text of any,