Morning journal and courier., 1894-02-13
Why Are They Poor.

To the Ed1torof the JOURNAL AND COURIER: !
 A question asked and answered in many ways, many times. A story which a poor man has just told to me gives one reason why he is poor; he says hs is going away to find work; his wife and child will stay with her father-who is poor enough, too. This young man tells me that before he married he eaved a little money-had eev- eral hundred dollars at one time. After he married he didn't save any; when he got out of work he didn't have any, because what he saved long ago had got away some | way. When he didn't have any money he naturally began to think of some way | whereby monsy might bs saved, and find ing that his bill at the bakery WAS $4 week for bread, cake and pie. he began to l think it would bs saving if his wife did the baking-thought SD much about this, 1 in fact, that he took pains to find out that | loaf of bread which he pays ten cents for | only contains one pound of hour-perhsps less The flour, he found, could be bought l for 24 cents a pound, and less. Allowing, | then, that loaf of homemade bresd-far ! better and more nutritious-costs less than 8 cents, he finds @ great saving; arguing | on pie and cake as on bread, he proceeded ! to tell his wife that, under the circum- stances, it would be 8 good scheme for her ! to do her o VII baking. She at once pro- l ceeded to tell him that che didn't know how to bake-her mother never taught her.
 Here we find young man who, after years of married life, concludes to put his thinking cap on. This wife of his, of | h So hf, ho load in every way, whose management of his | household affairs he has never questioned, is no kind of 8 wife for poor man. No doubt, having been taught to bake she has
 never been taught household economy of 1 any kind, and the bills for mests and vege-
 tables are ss much in excess of the actual
 needs of the family as gre those contracted
 turned his thoughts in another direction, ! no less than toward the probable cause of
 sl! this, be pictures in his mind the
 woman who was the mother of his | wife; who belonged to various socie
 ties, whose mind was filled with thoughts
 of missionary work, temperance work and
 charitable work continually. One who
 made show in tho world ard whom men | and women of her own kind rose up and
 called blessed. It Is safe to say rhis young
 n an didn't bless her-just at that time a | woman who has higher mission in life
 than that which calls for the education and
 training of the children whom she Las
 brought into the world was of no use to
 him.
 This is why one family in these hard
 times is poor; why one family is broken up; why one man goes away to look for ) work, and probably for home made bsk- ing.
 If a woman who to day belongs to a few ! societies and makes a show in the world
 by her good works will ponder these things ) in her mind, and out of pure kindness of
 heart, and not to boast of 1t, will go among
 these people and teach these women a sys-
 tenn of genuine household economy, she
 will surely be entitled to @ rich reward, such ss no mere society work ss such can ever bring her. HUMAN1TAs. II Beard of Missions. II The February meeting of the New Haven
 branch of the Womsn's Board of Missions ) will be held in the Center church chapel this afternoon at o'clock. An address
 will be given by Mrs. Bond of Aouastir,
 Bulgsria, who is supported by the branch
 Financial Notes.
 Tho secretary of the New Haven Clearing House furnishes the clearings and balances for the past week and for the correspond | lr- xva>k of 1saf vaap The c1aarinop ahoU