Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1885-04-21
A WORTHY SCHEME.


A WORTHY SCHEME.
1t has been determined to hold in this
city a floral festival in the course of a few
days. The purpose is to make it testi-
monial to citizen of Sacramento who has
done much in the way of charity among
this people, and more still in aiding in the
most material manner enterprises that are
intended to elevate and refine public
tastes, and mitigate human suffering. 1t
is a worthy scheme and will receive the
support Of every man, woman and child in
the city. The form it is to take-a festi-
val of fowers-is rich in appropriateness
and Most happy in conceit. The whole
city at this season is garden of beauty,
fairly bursting its bounds with the deli
cate glories of Natures bounteous floral
endowment, and there are none so poor
but can drink to the full the inspiration of
our tiower-gardens. The whole people can
come into sympathetic unity on such an
occasion as that suggested. 1t is plan by
which all can meet upon 4 plane of COM
mon purpose. Perhaps no filter form of
expression can be devised for testifying to
the lady in whose honor the festival is to
be promoted, the esteem in which she is
held and the public appreciation of her
good works.
While it is believed that it will be a
source of sincere pleasure to the recipient,
it has more far-reaching influence. For
it will testify to the world that communi-
ties are not all ungrateful: That the
hearts Of men are not so calloused by
daily cares, or occupied by business
schemes, as to prove irresponsible to the
gentler touches of humanity, or the
claims of the broad kinship of the race
1t will teach the rich that the world is Just
in its recognition of those wise uses of
wealth that dignity and adorn its possess
ors, 1t viii awaken the people to the
truth that every man or woman, rich or
poor, owes something to the place of his or
her residence. 1t will secure to us, in the
closer friendship of citizens, indirect re-
suits OF good commensurate with the gen.
erou3 primal impulse which gave birth to
the scheme. 1t will aid in the develop
ment of a broad public spirit, in the mani
festations Of which We may, for the time,
forget that we are ever divided by re-
ligion, or politics, or selfish aims, and
teach US all that there are broad levels of
good, where, shoulder to shoulder, we may
labor for the common veal, and strive
each with the other in doing the most for
our fellow-men.
We approve of the proposed floral testi-
monial to Mrs. Croker 1t is fitting in
the highest sense that in the declining
years of useful life she should be witness
to the fruits of her good works. and that
the people of her home, laying aside creed
and station, and all manner of jealousies,
envy and selfshness, should unite in
simple, inexpensive and sincere testi-
monial to a woman who has endeavored to
the fullness Of her ability to do her duty
in the city of her home and to make her
life in it one of profit to its people, and Of
completely rounded satisfaction to herself
\ New YORK Presbyterian Church has
wrestled with the question how to manage
boys, and felicitates itself upon having
solved the problem. And this is how it
does it. 1t has established club-room
where boys can assemble, read, play proper
games, indulge in amateur theatricals ath-
let:c exercises, musical programmes, etc.
We are told that it has proven a successful
experiment, and that the evening enter
tainments are very enjoyable. We should
prefer to hear from the club" year
hence. So far as assembly-rooms for home
less boys are concerned they have gener-
ally been of beneficial order, and their
practical results have been good Any
pure influences thrown about the homeless
must contribut e to their good, and incline
them to walk in proper ways. But regu-
larly organized club, with its rooms and
hall, for boys having homes, as in the
case Of the club referred to in New York,
is very likely to prove the usurper of
home and home influences. That it Is
managed by 4 church makes no sort of diff
ference.