St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-07-17

the nucleus about which centers the
great and much-needed work of the Or
ganizatiOn. Much more money has
been received, and has been expended
by the women who have the work in
charge. In fact, the enterprise is already
a reality. All day yesterday laden
wagons drew up at the Como house, and
by tomorrow it is expected that every
: thing will he in good running order,
ready for the comfort of the little in
validS who need change of
air so badly. The women in
charge speak very gratefully
of the universal kindness of the treat
ment they have received. Everybody
has been sympathetic, and what is bet
ter. has been liberal. Even the girls at
central have lost their metallic tones.
and helloed in milder. more heartfelt
accents when the affairs of the fresh air
fund went singing over the wires.
well begun is half dOne," they say.
The work OF the fund is well begun,
but it is not nearly done. Its work will
last SO long as there are hot summers
and poor children, and while the good
work goes on it must be helped by the
kind-hearted people of st. Paul. In
Eastern cities the fresh air fund is an
old story. Life, in New York, conducts
a fund of its own, and has given
many happy hour to the poor little
ones whose horizons are bounded by
New YOrk's tenement walls. At sum-
mer fetes, garden parties, routs and
hops collections are taken up for the
fund, and now and then some bored and
charitable grand dame arranges little
fair for her own amusement and the
good of the fund. In these dull mid
summer days st. Paul women ought to
do the same thing. The GLOBE suggests
1t, and will do all in its power to assist
any however small. given
for the benefit of the fresh-air fund.
All particulars and notices will be pub
lished gladly, and the GLOBE will still
receive subscriptions of all kinds. The
charity is such noble one that
every woman who reads the GLOBE
ought to feel herself especially consti-
tuted committee of one to help it
along. Every little drop counts. and
every little drop IS needed. There is
no woman who cannot do something to
help, and the duty lies with all of us.
IS
If st. Paul escapes an epidemic be-
fore the blessed frost comes, it will be
by dispensation OF Providence only.
every day. How? Well. if you could
hear woman whom l heard raging
today you would know, and what she
says is true. All over the town there
are pools of stagnant water, rotting in
the sun. and breeding foul cOntagion by
day and night. There is water in many
a cellar, and in thousand other
way the damp weather threatens the
public veal. unless. of course, there's
way Out-unleSs the city wakes to the
necessity Of doing something about it.
Will the city do it? Between you and
me and the court house clock. Pm quite
kind unless the women rise in their
wrath and insist. Just consider the
way the city deals with the garbage
question. The good angels of the town
have need to weep over the Omnipresent
garbage barrel, for angels tears are the
only thing that will kill the sickening
smell, and destroy the death dealing
germs. Chloride of lime won't do it,
and even if it would, there's
certain mysterious shortage in
chloride of lime just now,
and you can't buy enough of it to disin-
feet, your own barrel, let alone the
hood. Even the apartment houses of
the better class are suffering from the
garbage difficulty, and among the homes
of the poor people-welf, it isn't at all
pretty subject, but it is very grave
and menacing subject. and one we have
no right to ignore. The men who cart
away garbage charge $3.50 for doing so.
The city? Well. the city is busy about
something else, and in the meantime, if
typhoid tever and cholera and infantile
complaints untold don't swoop down
OH the community, we may all thank
our lucky stars. Perhaps 1t isn't the
city''s fault. Perhaps private individuals
ought to attend to the sanitary cundi-
ton of the town. Personality think it's
the city's fault. At any rate, the coun-
CLIPS ears will hear the story soon, for
Mrs. Willis, who is chairman of the
garbage committee in the sanitation Or
ganiZatiOn, is at work on a memorial to
the city fathers which sets forth the
case plainly and we'll. Something must
be done, and the women will see to it
i that something is done, and that, too,
| at once.
Mrs. Frederick Wright, the wife of
| the mayor, has accepted the chairman
ship of the committee on free baths,
and is doing admirable work. Land
| has already been given for bath
| houses along the river front, by
thelrailroad companies. Houses will he
built as soon as possible. 1t is not in
I tended. however, that river water shall
be USED for bath purposes. There will
be city water, and If possible. hot and
cold water. The baths will not be a
charity in reality.le Herbert Spencer's
disciples should cry out on the commit
tee for fostering pauperism. Five or
ten cents will be charged for bath.
suppose it sounds radical, but if all the
money that is wasted in tracts and Sun
day school lesson leaves were devoted
to furnishing free baths to people who
otherwise go dirty, the world would
be great deal better than it
is. There should be added to the
Litany, "From all preaching and from
tracts, good Lord deliver u.s." 1t is en-
tirely too much to expect man to be
good, or even to try to be good, unless
he is clean. When you tumble into
your tub and come out thinking how
clean and wholesome and civilized you
are, just stop for moment and think
of the people in this very town of ours
who don't know the luxury, the self
respecting satisfaction of absolute phys
ical cleanliness once decade. Even
the dogs can be cleaner than the very
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