Homer guardian. (Homer, La.) 1888-1890, 1889-02-01
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further on are men coming out OF
prison whom a little help would
hinder from falling back into ev
ways. o. just in the next street
to oar own. MT remote and to be
looked up as these others may be
is q woman racking her brains tc
find out how she shall raise the
money to keep the roof over hel
! head this winter; is another Ia
whom the means to have her chill
dren's feet properly dressed Is tile
difference between health and de.
struc!ion; is a father so distract
ed by the needs of his family aid
his perplexities and enlesvors
that lie is in danger of bringing
ruinous illness upon himself and
them. Or there is the little school
mistress whose life might be saw
ed if she could be spared from hel
school keeping in this cruel wea,
Their; is the girl who must be sent
South or die; is the woman with
out money to bury her dead; are
children to whom q new wooden
gown, q muT, or evcn-yes-even
q doll, would he the entrance al
ready upon q promised land OF III :
bounded riches. And we have
really known the possibility OF all
this, and have yet spent our time
and thought on pen.wipers and
pin cushions, and, happy amidst
our brio ,a.brac and bonbons and
babiolcs, have left the trouble IN.
relieved.
Perhaps it was all right to give
the pleasure to our immediate cir.
Gle; of course in o way it was, but
it need not have been in so expen.
siye a way either Of time or money
it was the first duty, or the one
nearest at hand; but could not our
circle have been educated to the
point Of receiving pleasure from
much simpler things, and thus
have time and thought and money
for the relief Of some portion Of
this trouble-till We could have
done this and not have left the
other undone? Certainly if the
whole circle united in q common
feeling and resolve, and took more
pleasure in giving than in receiv-
ing, IN giving where there coulc
be no other return than the glow
OF happy conscience gives, this
could be accomplished. If w
could educate all those to whom
we ordinarily give, and from whom
we accept gifts, to the point Of see
ing how much better the time en-
ployed in the crowded shops woul(
be employed in looking up case;
of suffering snd need of relief, ant
how much better money could b
spent in carrying this relief tina,
in buying material for fancy work
the whole thing might be happily
revolutionized to the contentmen
of all parties, and one Of the day
of gifts might find its message o
good will to men literally carrlct
out, and the other might see thu
opening winter so changed as tt
make it IN every respect q nev
year for those who have known
only sadness and apprehension
and suffering in the old year
Surely the SORROWS of the worlt
will never be assuaged unles
somebody assuages them; and i
might not be amiss for some fami
lies and neighborhoods and churcl
es to make the experiment and t.
learn for themselves how vast al
amount of good can be done wise
and tenderer expenditure of mon
ey that now just before the clos
Of every year is spent in the pun
chase Of gifts that too frequent
deserve to BE- ranked no highe
than folderols. Bazaar.
Cleveland and Harrison.
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