The western sentinel. [volume] (Winston-Salem, N.C.) 1887-1926, 1888-05-31
TOPICS IN NEW YORK.
Things the People are Thinking and
Talking About In the Great
Metropolis.

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Especial Correspondence of The Sentinel
New YORK, May 2S.-Have you
any of the "King's Daughters" in
North Carolina? presume you have
4 tor they ara spreading all over the
world with great rapidity. A noble,
blessed band are they, and the good
thy do is greater than can be accom-.
plished by any society, religious, or
philosophical, that I wot Of They
are women-wealthy wives, society
bellies, shop girls, servants, school
misses, even little tots of maidens-all
united in one motto, to do and be good
and lend hand. They are destined
to work a social evolution for truth,
goodness aid L ality such as mod
ern times have never known. There
Is no ceremony of initiation, no ritual,
no badge but plain little silver cross
tied with purple ribbon, no watch
word but the beautiful, expressive
sentence, "In His Name" Organized
at first by ten ladies in a certain
church, they have increased by tens
until they number 10000 in this
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no creed except to "do and be good
and lend hand" There are Sisters
Tens, Mothers Tens, Widows Tens,
Old Maids Tens, Love Tens, Hold
the Tongue Tens, Happy Worker
lens, Sunbeam Tens, Home Tens, Hos
pltal Tens, Flower Tens, Colored
Tens, and hundreds of other "Tens"
that are bent on doing countless small
kindn> ses instead of greater charities.
The Hospital Tens are. those whose
opportunities and time enable them to
visit hospitals and carry cheerfulness
aud spiritual sunshine to the bedsides
of sufferers. The Mothers Tens are
| those who, with no time for hospital or
other visiting, devote themselves to
making this world a brighter one for
motAers in their homes. These may
be seen caring for bits of babies be-
longing to their neighbors, raending
torn gowns, polishing a little here,
clea ming trife there, making cozy
&c les of untidy houses, taking some
| OF The drudgery from hard-working
mothers. The Hold-the-Tongue Tens
nave no duties but to practice the
virtue OF holding back hot and anger
ed words, and in spreading the prac-
tice of this virtue. But even this
small duty is accomplishing world
of good. The Sunbeam Tens and the
Home Tens devote themselves to do
ing little kindnesses at home which
make home happier. They save
| mammas' faces from many wrinkle,
and make better boys IF brothers and
better girls OF sisters.
x**
New York is noted for curiosity in
matters that to residents in other
cities and towns wonld awaken no in
terest whatever. For example, a fu-
ne. Il will attract crowd of curious
sazers in any part of the city, who
stare, with an apparently absorbing
interest at the Grape on the door knob,
the hearse and the coaches in waiting.
In no other portion of this country
have l see such curiosity exhibited
at funerals. A man or woman accom-
pan ed on the street by dog will at
tract the gaze of nearly every passer-
by, simply because in New York a
dog on the streets is rara aivis, or
rather a rara canis. The other after
noon as [ strolled out of Broadway to
cross City Hall park, l saw crowd of
fully 500 men surrounding one of the
little patches of green, not an acre IN
are1, III wstch; something that
was going on in thi, little oasis in the
desert Of civilization with rapt in
terest that only dog fight, murder,
Cor, perhaps, funeraD conld engen.
der. 1 managed to work my way to
throng, and as l obtained a
clear view of the little patch of green,
l could not for the life of me distin
guish anything at first that seemed to
Justify the remarkable gathering. At
last | saw what had attracted the
crowd. Almost hidden in the grass,
but now and then showing themselves
in full view for an instant IS they
hoped about in search of worms, were
four tiny birds, two Baltimore orioles
and two cat birds. In this great city
of New York, where even a patch of
green grass and few trees are nov
city, this little bit of woods life trans
ferred to the busiest streets was curl
osity by the side of which all other
attractions were as nothing.
NIX
| wonder what the staid and sober
delegates to the great Methodist con-
ference at the metropolitan Opera
house thought the other morning
when each one of them was served
with politely worded invitetion to
visit, free of charge, the performance
of "Nadjy," at the Casino. Fancy
hundred couple of clerical gentlemen
in sooer mein entering the gaudy por-
tails of the Casino just as Marie Jan
sen bowed on the stage as the ballet
premiere, robed in a suit of black
tights, black abbreviated skirts and
brief black bodice! l am told that
some OF the ministers really intended
to accept the invitation and go, but
were persuaded out of the notion by
their brethren, who painted to them
a description of the devilish devices of
"Nadjy," that really out-Aronsoned
Aronson. TARHEEL.