Memphis daily appeal. [volume] (Memphis, Tenn.) 1847-1886, 1883-04-29
CHARITY AT HOME
Might Accomplish More Positive Coed
ia 0He Generation than it Can
Abroad in Thousand Years.
The Appealing Condition Of the News.
bOys and Bootblacks, the Indepen-
dent Waits Of Busy World.

Theoretically, we are all advocates Of that
oh zriiy which begins at home. Practically,
a large majority OF the alms-givers OF this
world prefer making investments where the
largest returns in the way OF pls13its and ap-
probation may be expected. Three small
news5oys, ragged, dirty and unkeupt (as
the universal ueTzb1y always is) wandering
down the middle of Monroe street, one day
rot thousand years gone, with their arms
clasped about esch other (;he snimosities Of
| rival merch ants laid aside o1t Of business
| hours) in a manner that suggested the posi-
| bility Of neWsboy being possessed OF some
| Of those chords upon which Mr.. Guppy laid
such tender stress-while, with their three
| times ten dirty little bare toes, they we're
| gravely and puTposely leaving tracks in the
mud Of which Monroe street has such iu.t
cause TO boast a supremacy. Poor little
vsgabonds, l tho1ght TO myself, who will
ever hold out hand to you and help you
upward TO those nights poss ole even for the
| raggedest of news-venders, where you NAV
| leave your loot prints in the sands OF time?
Did ever anybody stop to ponder over the
vast smount of treasure, time, fort and
| heart. burning expended in impractical chart
| tyr In foreign missions, let Us say, TO the
| neglect Of domestic mssion:l l am aware
| that such reckless inquiry is calculated
| TO bring down Voluble response frou half a
| hundred organizations bent upon doing
good work, and no doubt doing a vast
amount of it, only there seems to be such &
concentr alton of effort, as it were,.2pon one
or two classes Of subjec There are mis-
sions among u. doing good and loyal service
| for the Master. There are private enter
| prises for the benefit OF various cayses OF
| cuff. rers, that deserve all praise. But does
not this particular class oil helples9oIk,
THE NEwsBoYs OF OUR CITY,
seem TO he lef; especially 10 their own de-
| vicssi Whoever cav a newsboy look as If h I,
| ad one earthly friend 10 speak word of
encouragement or counsel TO him There
| are those among them who merit better
| things by reason of their owa Inherent
| strength and push but beneath how many
| of tho.e ragged little iickets, perhaps, beat
hearts that carry burdens of care and ark
| iety aud bope and disappointment dispro-
| portionaie to their years? "a brassy, push
ing, impudent lot" you SAY? My dear sir,
their brass and push and impudence are the
| sincws OF their success in lif-, just as fully
ss is your enterprise, independence aud en-
| ergy. We all acknowledge iheis business to
be legitimate on, and would misc them if
| it were suspended, but the newshoy always
offers his wares with the most ahj ct air OF
apology, SIS if entirely conscious that he had
10 right to exist at all, and lodges about the
| world 90 II he were accustomed to ss many
| cuffs as customers. Who kBoWs, who cares
to know, how the newsboy provides for the
ever recurring needs OF his anatomy-needs
which certainly would not seem 20 include
that necessary article oil soap? Who knows,
! or cares 10 know, how they sleep or where,
or when? As clasa, they have = sturdy
sort Of independence about them th at causes
them TO be overlooked by the good people
1 hA hun e
They appear in swarms whsn The time come.
for distributing the daily papers, and disap
pear like rabbits to their unknown warten
when the 80 AIDES Of night fall aud the Joy
oil home and hresids loom big. Who eve
spends a thought on neSsboy out OF sight
Did any body ever sse
A NEwsBoY WITH CLEAN SHIRT
on his back, with clean facs or head o
hair suggestive OF combs and brushss7 D.
they really exist like stray amin sls--feed
and sleeping how aud where they can? Doe
Sunday exist for them at all? Small won
der that their faces are shrewd and hsE;
and cunning. Youthful IsamaeIiies Con
scious only Of the supreme need Of lookiu!
out Tor number one-kuowing no number
two beyond possible purchaser. Now, il
they all lived in the South Sea Isl .nds, 0
among the heather Chinee, or in BJrriboo
I
the.ic attention might be much better. Blu
there is nothing more common tnan Tor US I,
overlook an object which is too immed atel,
4 Under our own noses, and your ne w-boy is o.
whining beggsr. La this dag OF muliifariou.
organizations ssd prof cts for the glory o
God and the salvation Of man, would it b
out Of order for somebody without an
money 10 suggest TO somebody with tba
power Tor good, the erection OF home 70
this class of brexd-xinners. Some rally IN;
place where the consciousness Of belonging t,
some one spot on earth might enter int thei
fororn little lives ard give them new Dor,
seose OF dignity. Ii ia great thing TO max
human being realize fer the FIRST tune il
his life that some one has spent though
upon him. With that frat revelation of hi
own importance comes the desire to .hoI
himself worthy OF that thought, which, il
nine cases out OF teD, VIII lead child O
man onward and upward through an ever
brig hiening sequence Of effort and accom-
p!ishment
"NEwsBoYs' HOME"
you know, would have such a proudly pro
prietary sound 10 the cara OF those who nav
Fever known any home, aud after boy Ia
been In the habit Of regarding disczide
piano box or turned down cask as a God
send III the way OF lounge, he would rsgarl
sure enough, real bed, as such kingl
accommodations that he would endeavor L
lift himself up 10 a moral level deserving O
his material grandeur. Suppose We CIV
them chance. Perhaps after all am tsik
ing The vsriest twaddlsl Perhaps, after all
all those .hrill-voiced, grimy faced, pushing
lille paper merchants who scaUper barefoo
along on thoroughfares with the agility o
monkeys are "wel enough eff" and get a
good as they deserve" only, you know, the
don't LOOK like il. That's ali
MOTHER GOOSE.