The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1891-06-21
A WORD ABOUT CHARITY.
Suggestions as to How the Most Ef-
fective Work is Done.

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Suggestions as to How the Most Eff
fective Work is Done.
BROOKLYN, N. ", June 2O.-The young
lady who is possessed of unlimited means,
ample time, perfect health, and desire to
be practically useful, is certainly an excep-
tional individual, but such an one has really
written me letter. 81 care nothing for
fashionable life," she says, land although
in it, am not Of it. My parents are perfectly
willing that shall devote as much time
and money as | please to charitable work,
but here is the rub, and this is my
excuse for appealing TO you. | do not
wish to be connected with organized chart
ties, but on the contrary to do my work
with individuals. Up to date, notwith-
standing have used all the common sense
! could bring to bear upon the subject, my
record has been most disappointing. My
confidence has been generally misplaced,
my time wasted, my money SOU andered.
Truly have had eaough encouragement
and suffe red enough imposition to make me
feel that it is of no sort of use to try and
help anybody, and yet l cannot quite give
up"
My correspondent has been relying too
much on the power of money to accomplish
her purpose. And those who have been en-
gagged in charitable work to any extent
understand that money cannot be too care
fully disbured. In the majority of cases it
does more harm than good. To the very
poor, who are con scientous and prudent,
this statement may SAVIOR somewhat of
heartlessness They will know how TO spend
money, but such knowledge is extremely
rare, and philanthropists do not know
where TO find these prudent and appreoia-
tive needy ones.
Even in such instances the best way to
he p is to make 1t possible for people to help
themselves.
Such charity requires the incest discrimi.
nation. 1t is much easier for one with a
plethoric pocketoook to pull out few
bills and hand them over to those who need
than to find out what is necessary to keep
body and soul together, and then to buy it,
and afterward to devise some plan by which
| bread and butter can be earned. But the
| former is a hindering process for many
| reasons, and is not in any sense a charity.
| 1t is utterly impossible TO give any spe-
| cif1c advice in such matters, and the young
| and enthusiastic are very apt to be impA-
tisnt of congratulations.
1t wonld be real charity to send few
| invalided working girls to the country for
vacation, or those who are not invalids,
| but who cannot stretch their earnings to
cover such an expense. This Is a work very
| dear to my heart, and if my correspondent,
| or any one else, feels thrill Of desire to be
| useful in such d way l can make this work
| very easy, Ior KNOW just where Ine SUD
| jects are to be found. Think of girls Is and
| 20 years old, intelligent and lady-like, who
have never seen the outside of New York
| city, and who have worked since childhood
every day of their starved and miserable
lives. Ten such girls were taken by prac-
tical philanthropist to New Jersey
farm last summer and kept there
for some weeks. The woman who
was able to do this told me that
it was the most satisfactory work of her
life, and she was sure she knew little of
how she should feel when she got to heaven
by the astoniShment and delight of the stran-
gers at their unusual surroundings. Since
this glorious visit my friend has had these
girls as it were under her eye. She calls
upon them, they call upon her. and in every
possible way their welfare is promoted. II
trouble comes in any shape they know that
they will be helped TO bear it. This summer
the original ten, with five more added to
the number-the latter sick girls, to be
nursed and cared for by the well ones-will
take up their quarters at the farm. Could
| there be more blessed charity than thiss
l am happy to be able TO assure the in
quiring readers who have signif1ed a desire
for sensible summer costumes that noun
tain and seashore dresses are to be worn
short, and with CATERS made of the same
material, if possible. This style is in the
nature of a fad, but &c is very pretty, and
tune Cheap cheviots in notified grsys
and browns, Mrs. Jenness Miller tells us,
are the proper materials. For cool weather
jackets containing many pockets are added.
The gown skirt should also be amply sup
piled with these conveniences The sleeves
should be made fairly long in order to pro-
tect the wrists from tan and sunburn.
Gloves cannot always be relied upon to per-
form this office.
Pulmonary diseases can be mitigated and
in many cases cured by proper physical ex-
ercises. | have endeavored to make this
fact as plain as possible, and to give all the
necessary directions in a booklet l have
just published called 1.-THE Woman's Way
to Health and Beauty" The reason for this
volume is the number of letters which have
poured in upon me for the last year which
could not answer by public or private cor
respondence The interest is SO great and
so widespread that this seemed the only
solution of the difficulty.
Physical exercise and massage treatment
are not understood to any practical extent.
People with narrow chests and hacking
coughs are very apt to think there is too
much labor required in such modes of deal
| Jag with consumptive tendencies, but they
are mistaken, and this fact it has been my
ambition to elaborate There are many
other physical ills beside those that come
under the head of pulmonary, which can
|
may nerve troubles and mental anguishes
which nothing else will ever cure.
eff you will show me how TO be beauti-
full, the health can take care of itself !"
passed By'' informs me iD highly scented,
dissatisfied, iIlegible and iacoherent COM
munication. did not need the psyche
metric gift to inform me what this letter
contained, for had sensed it spiritually
before the seal was broken, and when /
glanced at the signature l did not wonder
that the author was Passed By" No man
with an ordinary nose and average stom-
ach could possibly linger long enough to
maze love to such woman. May she con-
tinue to be passed by until she has sense
enough to understand that beauty without
health is an impossbility, and that any
thing more than a suggestion Of perfumery
betreys vulgarity. ELEANOR KIRK.