The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1884-06-05
WosIAN'S YORK.
Something About Society Which Helps
Others to Help Themselves.
New York Evening Post.

Others to Help Themselves.
New York Evening Post.
The Exchange is not merely place for the
sale of goods, but center of influence and active
assistance, where the best interests of unfortu-
nate gentlewomen are in every way fostered and
promoted. 'Some know in how many secret ways
we work for the most deserving and most neg
leeted poor, neglected because a proper pride
and selfrespect leads them to suffer in silence
1t is only by giving the educated poor chance
to work for what they need, and by educating
them to more sensible ideas about labor
that we can be of any practical use
reared in comfort and reduced to
poverty by sickness bad management Of
others, intemperance and dishonesty. In one
week we brought together q family scattered for
several years because of great losses; fixed them
in pretty fiat, where they are now very happy
and have constant occupation. We sent shoes
and other necessaries of life TO a family well
known in fashionable circles few years ago; we
bought books, etc, for the son of widow who
has prepared three boys for college on an income
of $500 year; gave happy Christmas to several
little folk who had neither father nor mother
and pleasant change to an invalid lady of the
old school, who used to travel some years ago.
secured a hearing for one who only wanted an
introduction to music lovers; and this q weeks
work, not as satisfactory as some have ex-
perienced. Forty women with kind hearts and
good Judgment, working in harmony, can carry
many heavy burdens for Others and bring them
oct of great trouble without the delay which
is so often fatal to those i'll distress. Our cor
fespondence amounts to three or four hundred
letters in month. That of itself is help
and delight to many ladies living now in far
off places, away from their friends and the life
they once enjoyed, aside from the benefit it is to
them in a business point of view, for it keeps
alive their courage and gives them something
eew to think about and hope for. Our aim is to
help women in the many different ways which
seem most available to them. We sell the work
of promising young artists, that they may do
better work; we dissuade older and hopeless
aspirants for artistic fame and induce
them to do anything they can do well
Clever housekeepers have large field
open to them, Beginners are taught. Industri-
GUS wives trying to keep place in the country
for broken down husbands or children, send
their eggs, chickens, butter and milk to'the ex-
change. Women with proclivities for shopping
and making bargains, which all women are
falsely supposed to have, come to ask for orders
from those whose want of time inclination or
knowledge makes it wise for them to employ the
services of others, where colors are to be
matched and tiresome calculations are TO be
made To old and young ladies unable to dohard
work, who write well, we have given many or
ders for directing and sending wedding and
reception invitations Competent women have
found good situations as housekdepers gov
ernesses, and teachers No finer embroidery can
be done in any country than we can do. We
have already more than local reputation for
our children's clothing. Mending has become an
Important feature of our work. Bachelors ward
robes are properly cared for and sent home
promptly indeed. there is nothing in the whole
wide world of womens work which cannot be
done at the exchange was made conscious of
what we can do by what we did do few days
since, when disconsoate man came in with
hree pretty little children in black and said
Can you supply these children with spring