St. Paul daily globe., 1888-05-13

Insist on their cleanliness, we 1OrIn
methodical habits in them, the contagiOn
spreads, and it is not long until they
have established something like law
and order in their houses. Evidences
of this are constantly coming to us.
Only the other day, a carpenter at
work in the dining room of house on
Summit avenue watched the girl
setting the table, and said he wished
his little girl had such things to set the
table with; he'd bet she'd make it look
as nice as anybody could. She was
awful particular about the way the
table looked at home. The temperance
girls had taught her how, and every
thing had to be just so. OF she would
not eat nor let any of the rest OF them
eat in peace either.
"BesideS making work attractive,
there is another thing the temperance
girls do, they make work dignitied and
respectable. 1t would be comical
if it were not too bad, to hear
the notions poor children have
of us who live in nice houses and have
plenty of money. They think we are
dressed like dolls in silk dress-they
never conceive us wearing anything but
silk-the moment we get up in the
morning, and the idea of our ever doing
stroke of work never enters their head.
ham gowns, show them that we know
how to do hOuSewOrk and are proud of
knowing how, they begin to think
that perhaps working is not the most
diSgraceful thing on earth, and we soon
bring them to believe that idleneSs is.
Girls should pass from the kitchen gar
den into a cooking school, and l am
glad there is a movement afOOt to make
this possible"
Last week Miss Holbrook made tour
of Swede hollow, where she is very anx
ious some work should be done during
the summer. There is more need of
missionaries in this spot than any
where else in town." said the police
man who directed her. Everybody
steals from his neighbOr, and the man
who makes the biggest steal is the best
man" Before starting on his exploring
expedition, the policeman had Miss
HolbrOok put her diamond earrings In
her purse and sink the purse in the
depths of her pocket. She found the
community quiet-apparently peaceable
enough. 1t is at night. when the men
have returned and are the worse for
whisky, that the natural depravity of
the lot has free and full expression.
Filth characteriZes their homes, and
the faces of the women bespeak hard
lives.
Believing not only that the devil will.
but that he must take care of his own,
the Y. w. c. T. us would direct their
reform efforts at the children. Miss
HolbrOOk is eager to go right down in
their midst and establish a kitchen gar
den. when we want to reform people
] believe in going to them. We waste
half our energy trying to bring them to
u.s." she says. Before anything can be
done in Swede hollow, building that
will accommodate hundred
MUST BE PROVIDED.
Here, Kindergarten, sewing school,
and cooking school, as well as kitchen
garden, could be carried on during the
week, and on Sunday, song service,
conducted on the n0n-sectarian princi-
pie on which the Y. w. G. L. u. base
all their efforts. They discontinued
teaching Bible verses, and substituted
for them m0ttos like "A Penny Saved
Is Penny Earned" or "What Is Worth
Doing Is Worth Doing WE'LL" because
Catholic children were withdrawn from
the kitchen garden Oh account of the
Bicle verses learned there.
The Y. w. c. II. U. enjoys the dis
tinction of being one charity OrganiZa-
ton that does not extend a subscription
paper with the right hand every time it
extends heaven with the left. An initia-
tion fee Of 81 is imposed, and each mem
ber pledges herself to turn SO into the
treasury each year. From the date of
the Y. w. c. Il. u. has been
Miss Carrie NJ. Holbrook. She is
full of ideas, and has all of
the enthusiasm, the large hope and
strong faith. that typify the reformer
More than these, she has the element Of
success wanting in the numerous re-
fOrmerS-an immense amount of hard
common sense. She was the first presi-
dent of the society. and still holds that
office. Miss Margaret McElhinney is
closely identified with the success of the
c. HOughtaling has been very active in
the hospital service. Mrs. G. c. II.
Smith labors in a social way, and is one
of the Staunchest temperance workers
in the union. Misses Laura Williams,
Josie Stevenson, Della Briggs, Bertha
Dorsey and Lily FitZ are prominent in
both the kitchen garden and hospital
service. The union holds meetings the
first and third Wednesdays Of each
month in the parlOrs OF the House of
Hope church, and the young women
have now entered upon a systematic
study Of the forty different departments
of work prescribed by the w. G. T. U.
These different departments comprise
social purity; prison and Jail work;
work among soldiers and sailors, lum-
bermen, and cOlored people; evangeis-
tic effort, scientific temperance, etc.
The w. G. II. U. is conspicuously con-
nected with the wOman's suffrage move
ment; but there is not a member of the
Young Woman's Christian Temperance
union who cares fig for the ballot. 1t
is old age that brings out a proper and
painful appreciation of her rights in
woman. While she is young, she can
what she will. Nature is on her side,
and nature and one woman make a
majority that all the legislation in the
co untry cannot strengthen.
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