The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1893-01-13
A RECORD OF VIRTUE.
the Suppression Of
Pessimism and ReCog-
milton of Good in
Today.
NOTABLE NAMES ON ITS PAGE:
How True Charity Ope rates
Musical and Social News
of the Week.

Last year there was a little club started
ia a great city, whose members agree TO
preserve a record OF such noble deeds as
should come under individual attention,
the result TO be read at the annual meet
ing, for the suppression of pessimlsm ana
the recognition OF good in today. They
called their books 1.-THE Record OF Wiz
tue" and sure it was enough to M Ike an
optimfst, Just to read what was inside.
For there is SO much good in the world,
however much bad there may be! There
are so many great, noble men and women,
however many small-minded and small
hearted people they may have TO
contend With The troubls is. thai
black shows mp better against a white
background, and one contemptible little
ink spot Will fairly thrust itself INTO
sight on the surface of q fair damasK
cloth. 1t is the unpleasant side OF lie
that gets into the papers. hat gets INTO
the courts, that even gets Into the MS
tories, when they put a three years war
into twenty pages. and a fifty years peace
into one. SO ouce in a while 1t is just as
well to make at least a mental RECORD OF
virtue.n to keep cue'S soul sweet Wnen
someone has been talking scandal 10 you.
Perhaps there Is no one point on which
| a real true woman is more sensitive than
on her private charities. She will tell
| YOU all about the children in the Home
or the orphans in the Asylum, or any in
mate of any Institution OF which she Is a
| patroness, but 0 cannot get a woro
| ABOUT the less fortunate woman whose
| children are clothed by her bounty, n
who's Christmas dinner does not come
| out of the lean home larder. Mrs. e. 4.
| C. Young is not going to tell anyone the
names of the struggling students to
| whom she has given a helping hand; MISS
| Lucy Nelson is not gong to let anybody
| know just whom she had helped co de-
| velop Il voice; Miss Katharine Spier is
| not going to put in the papers just where
| all her opera tickets used TO go. Neither
| are the thousand and one great hearted
| women of this city going TO tell who re-
| ceives what they dare to give.
MRS. YoUNG's GOOD WORK.
Mrs. E. f. C. Young's name stand on
| the patroness list of everything under
City. When Mrs. E. F.. G. Young give
a musicale at the Carterat Clubhouse
| everybody who has tickets sent them
| goes, as q matter of course. And the
| money? 1t Is turned over TO some Young
man or woman who has not reached the
level of grinding poverty. perhaps. al
though it might seem so to some one un-
accustomed, but who has the caDacity
for success along some avenue which Is
| closed by the iulperitive need OF money.
| For it takes capital to start i'll anything,
and a man or woman might nave all the
talent for music in the world and IL would
amount TO nothing without tne where
withal for its cultivation, while all the
genius for surgery that ever nade man
| famous would be of no avail without
college fees. 1t is q terrible thing TO
think of God-giyen power stined Tor
want OF the mere outer circumstance OF a
| few hundred dollars, aud 1t is unfinch-
| ingly true that this Is common happen
| ing. Mrs. Young sees this and knows
| how much she can do toward setting
| things right, and so the musicale at the
| Carteret Club. anu the money that Is
added from personal contribution, GER
| tainly belong on a record Of virtue"
There is an elderly lady who formerly
conducted classes in this city. and did
much for the literary advancement of our
women. OF late years her health has de-
cliued with advancing age aud a recent
| accident red her to u long period OF
| invalidism. Then a young girl whose
name may be found Oh the roll OF our
| most famous literary club, as we'll as on
| every list OF names at social functions,
| went out to tell this story to those who
| had known the invalid III former years.
| There was no need to solicit aid, it came
| without urging. accompanied by the re-
| quest that it be given anonymously.
| surely this belongs on a record of
virtue"
MISS sPIER's HELPFULNEss.
Then Miss Katharine Spler OF Madison
| ayenue-perhaps there may nave been
other opera tickets that did as much good
! as hers, but l doubt it. And aproDos, here
is o little story of how not to be char
| liable. There Was a teacher IN
the public schools. a woman
| of rare talents and requirement Is. who
| fell a victim to the scourge of literary
| Observation-Disclosures. Miss Spier's sym.
| palhy was aroused, ana by her personal
efforts, she raised money TO pay her
board at a pleasant home. She did not
| think it necessary to mention TO the sem
sitive, delicate little gentle woman that the
| money had been raised by subscription.
| One day one of the contributors called to
see the sufferer, and out of pure goodness
of heart aud not u desire to say something.
told her just how the money had been
collected. 1t nearly broke her heart.
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