Omaha daily bee., 1889-08-11
THIS IS A HEAVENLY FAD.
How New Yorlk's Wealthy Women
Stun For Charity.
HE vAssAR GIRLS AT PLAY.
They Dance and shout and Naughty
Songs They sing-Gushlng Maid
cns-Advice to Bride
and Groom.
A Fad which Angels Bless.

ever hHecbeu ny u WOHldn VI lushloh,
says the New York World. Aud just
now, when people Of abundant means
are leaving the city and the tenement
poor are ~succumbing to the EMBEDDING
heat OF ummer and the h%ardships re-
sulting from n dearth of clean water
and fresh air, the interest and encour-
ngement from the ladies who go through
the slums are beautiful beyond express
sion. A lady living In the shadow of
the Pork Avenue hotel, who will not
permit her name to be used, has relig-
iously performed the self-assigned task
OF helping ten poor families to help
themselves every week since the LIST Of
May. She says:
1--WE are going to spend July and
August at the %seashore, and / wanted
to earn the right to enjoy SO much
pleasure. 1 haven't a great deal of
money to bestow, but every day ] am
convinced that the helpless and hapless
want something else besides money.
They want work first Of all, and then
some special instruction Ito be peda-
gogic) as to the best investment of the
money and the most economical way of
llVlUS. DduR ubtT anu L give NlOuuuy
and Wednesday mornings to actual Wis
iting in the tenement sections.
"Generally WI start out to find u fam
lily suggested by an aid society, aud in
the search almost countless cases of
sickness and restitution, all worthy of
assistance, thrust themselves upon II
sympathy. We find them in rear
buildings, on top floors, in straits of
poverty that are touching beyond de-
scription.. In such extremes money
must be advanced before any mission
airy work OF ethical culture is possible.
We show one housewife how to keep
her kitchen and bedroom clean, an
other how to reduce her grocery and
meat bills, and others, again, the way
to patch old clothes and procure new
ones. We personally appeal to cruelty
negligent land agents for better sur
roundings; we provide tickets for the
use of machines in free Institutes and
factories, aud distribute cards bearing
friends who promise to give the bearer
aday's work, some suitable clothing or
q few dollars when the card is pre-
sented.
"We have shown fifteen women how
to prepare inexpensive and wholesome
dishes, such as soup, cream %toasts, egg
salad, fish ball and potato patties for
breakfast and supper in order to dis
pense with meat, and a dozen at least /
have taken to market and introduced to
wholesale dealers who generously
agreed to furnish everything at actual
cost and considerable for nothing. It's
u tribe, to be sure, to say we teach
mothers. how TO care for their children,
but it's pitiful to see the success with
which they are neglected. In one
week we carried about a bag with odds
and ends OF shoes, properly fitting the
little feet and taking away in exchange
the shorter shoes. At the same time
we solved the problem of clean heads
by Singing the matted ~tresses, paying
each child 25 cents who consented to be
shorn by the clipping machine. A few
families we assisted to procure oil
stoves, and everywhere we preached
against the robbery of the pawnshop
system. One friend offered to buy up
$500 worth of pawn tickets, and as his
agent we redeemed 100 articles, show
ing the loans to average less than So.
There were shawls, tools, albums, we'd
ding rings. beds, pillows, household
furniture, iatirons, scissors, pieces of
jewellery, watches, umbrellas, furs and
shoes and clothing, wash boilers, tubs
and wringers in abundance. One little
: pair OF shoes we redeemed belonged to
a dead child, and with the 25 cents nd
vanced on them the poor
mother had purchased white
Grape to tie round the bell
pull. We can't do much, the iced is so
great, but the little we try to accomp-
fish makes an excuse for the summer
outing we enjoy SO much.
1.-The other day 7 met Mrs. Hicks
Lord returning from a Friday slum-
ming. She was coming from Essex
street. and boarded a cross-town car to
go to her home in Washington square.
She was dressedin u black cotton suit.
Lisle thread gloves covered her hands,
mi from the brim of a black straw
bonnet a heavy baize veil fell over her
face. TWAS evident that she aid moi
wish to be recognized, but the nickel
with which she paid her fare was the
last coin in her purse and a black shop
ping bag that she carried was also
empty.
Ungallanr Proverbs About Women
A contributor to the Freisinnige lei,
tung has collected from all the foremost
nations OF the world a heap of ''prov'
CRIBS OF men concerning women" 1t ap
pears from them hat the southern PEG
Piles, who count themselves the mos
chivalrous and gallant toward the
ladies, are more coarse and insulting II
their proverbs than the colder north
erners. Although the Germans, thu
S~candinavians and the English are no
complimentary to the women in theil
proverbs, they are rarely brutal" TIL,
Frenchman says: "A mar who has
wife has a plague" "a man made o
straw is worth double as much as
woman made of gold" The Spaniart
says: IA woman advice is never O
any use, but unless you follow it sh'
will rail ut you as u fool;" "Be on you
guard against q bad woman, but do no
put your trust in u good woman;'
"There is only one bad woman, Blu
every husband believes he possesse
her." The Italians say: III "a ma,
loses his wife and a farthing he has onl,
lost a f%arthing." The chief failings o
the sex, according to n whole host O
English and German proverbs, ar
c~hapgeableness and talkativeness, tn
former Of which is equally true OF men
and the latter not disagreeable to me-
in the Latin nations. The charge tina
"Women's minds and April winds oftel
CHANGE" and the statement that 81
woman's strength lies in her tongue,
appear to be accepted in various read
ings throughout Northern Europe. Tn