St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-01-08

disposed people proceed to supply it
with all necessary furnishings and
household equipments. When the aged
poor are brought in the Little Sisters go
forth daily, basket on arm, and beg
from door to door the necessary means
to supply their daily aid. BY the aid of
report, or from actual experience, they
are soon enabled to find out those in the
community who are charitably dis
posed: they do not scruple to invade
the hotels in search of scraps from the
tables and the wholesale meat markets,
packing houses and the like are favorite
places with the Sisters, and to the credit
or the butchers and packers be it
said that they are rarely sent away
empty-handed from any establishment.
/, within few weeks after the Little Sis
tiers have entered into possession of the
,refege, the place is filled. When for
amy treason vacancy occurs, there are
always applicants waiting to be admit
, ted. The old people regard 1t as a great
! boon to be received into the institution,
assured that their wants and physical
comforts are thencefOrth provided for.
NO distinction is made by the Little
Sisters as to creed or nationality. In
fact, their rules strictly bind them to
draw no lines in either particular;
suffice that the objects of their charity
land hospitality shall be aged and poor.
Another popularity of their rule is that
that they are forbidden to receive or
profit by any stated stipend or in
come. A benevolent lady in Philadel-
phia, lately deceased, made bequest in
her will, assigning to the Little Sisters
OF the Poor certain consid-
cradle, property, together with the
annual rentals accruing there
from. The gift of the property
they could have accepted, but the cOndi-
ton of also receiving the rental from
the same necessitated its rejection. The
founder of the Little Sisters of the Poor
doubtless wisely guarded against the
possibility that the sisters, by the pos
session OF too great wealth would, in
time, ignore the rule which commands
them to support the poor by their labor
and by begging aims from day to day to
provide for their present needs. The
sisters make the rounds among the be-
neyolent patrons at stated times. Sew
eral OF the principal hotels regularly
contribute the ''oddS and ends" of food
!eft over from the tables, which, under
the sklllful manipulation of the little
sisters (WhO are all or nearly all French),
is recOOked and served to their old pen
SlOners in fashion that would make
the hotel guests envy the favored ones
who often fare sumptuously on the
crumbs gathered from the hotel kitchen.
There is another rule, which, incred-
lDle though it appears, is never
theless, a fact, and it is
strictly adhered to, and that is that in
no case shall the sisters sit down to
meal until the aged poor of the institu-
ton shall have been first served and
provided for, and then the sisters must
be content to feed themselves upon the
fragments that are left after meals.
Often, indeed, it happens that while
the poor of the refuge had sufficient
and even abundant fare, the sisters
would scarcely have enough to eat.
Surely this indeed is charity of the
most heroic type! Their implicit trust
and confidence in the bounty and good
ness of God in whom they put their
trust is equaled only by their simple
and artless faith that all things will be
given to them of which they have need
IN His good time.