Delaware gazette and state journal., 1897-07-15

K peelai Correspondence of Gazette and journal
III Nav York, July q. There 10 no
r duubt about il that during the eum
\ mer months there are many good and |
n Kindly things done for the women and |
little children who suffer from the |
awful diseases of poverty, Ignorance
and dirt. thoroughly approve Of the
Various funds for taking the children |
% the other side out for day en- the
water or in the country, and | believe
there is real charity displayed in |
making cleanliness a necessity in each |
II Ruest who ia allowed to accept the
= I1nvitation. There is no end of kind |
1kpeople who help in the right way those
'twbo need it, hut the silly season brings
lahhout great many 60 called philan'
,thronists who imagine that vanity and
charity are synonymous. or a woman
F who is very much Of a foul | heard il
n said, "She's very charitable, Y and
"a when asked, How does she display
4 her charity?" this was the vague
\ answer given to me "Well, she goes
" to the hospitals and takes the sick
4 people flowers and Bibles and buns and
4 tracts and reads to them and talks to
them about their souls. !"
Nav, a woman calls that charity! A
n man with any sense would put d.
"a with a long dash after il before the
proper word, which would be imperti-
nence. If you we're sick and in the pub
v liz ward OF hospital, and, ii is fair to
suppose, feeling very miserable, why
should your misery be aggravated by
6 having some strange woman Sit down
{by your bedside and read to you about
the tortures of hell or perhaps deposit
X. lunches of halt withered flowers upon
ne IN to1t uIraady halF "a
M I know il to be absolutely true that
poor old German who was in one OF
the public hopitals longed for one OF
"a the delicate buns that visitor had
~ Wrought. but she would not give it to
w him unless he first took Bible He
could not read or speak a word Of Eng
lish, but he took the Bible and got the
bun. If that woman doesn't take the
cake for being prize fool, then the
world has a larger assortment Of fools
* than has ever been imagined.
f There is no charity in reading the
Bible TO very sick people. Nine times
s. out of ten they don't understand it,
and the tenth time they're annoyed by
the strange voice near them. Why
Y can't the woman eager to be charitable
say few cheerful, hopful words and
4 then, when the poor, wretched body
& gets better. think over the wisdom of
saying something about tine poor
wretched soul? A doctor in one OF the
big hospitals said that il anybody who
bad plenty of money yearned to RIO a
really good work there was room for IL,
and this is what he suggested "Msn
come here with broken legs, injured in
all sorts of ways, men vino are laid up
for months They would get we'll in
s half the time If their minds were easy.
Nar ,,han ma tu hrnnDhr haFa
some of the people whu want to do good
would come to him aud say, My friend,
have you wife or a mother, have you
any children, and is there anyhudy to
caro- for them and give them bread and
hutter while you are illG' and thsn
when they learned the state OF affairs
would care for that wife or mother and
those children until the husband and
father came out Of the hospital and
could care for them himself, they
would indeed be good Samaritans.
There's a work for you who long to
be counted a philanthropist. hetter
work than carrying around half faded.
sickly smelling flowers. It's better
than buns and Bibles It's what tho
Bible teaches, though she experience OF
most of the people in this world is that
va lind it easier to give away black
and white editions of the Bible than to
show it's teachings as man to man anu
as brother to brother. Charity may
cover multitude of sins, but there ars
more crimes and more worrying LITTLE
deviltries committed in the name of
charity than in the name of any other
virtue. A woman believes she ia being
charitable when she asks man what
he thinks about the future. Now,
, when he has raging fever and every
separate and Individual bone in his
body is aching and his eyes feel like
balls of fire the future doesn't trouble
him in the least. 1t is the present in
d which be ia interested, and a good
spnnging off with cool alcohol, the
Strengthening up of his he'd and the
giving of veritable drink of cold
water is far greater charity than pic
turing to that man just how he would
look dressed up as an angel and play:
ing on a harp. In his present condi'
tion no has no use for harps. 5.
just remember that don't want II
say ono word to keep any good womar
from trying to help those who are ii
trouble, but wish few women, JUS
few, would be little bit more practi
cal and remember how their own man
kind. when it ia ILL., wishes to b'
treated and to credit all the other meI
with having the same human longings.
A sick man is always sad and sorrl
sight, especially il he isn't very sick
for then he has it firmly planned ou
that be is going to die. lie thinks no
body ever had such pains as he has
and from the very first he takes al
aggressive position toward the doctor
regarding him as a personal enem.
rather than kind friend. This is be
cause the doctor ia hopeful, and tn
man who isn't very sick doesn't permi
anybody 10 hope thnt be will ever re
cover.
Somebody has said that doctors ar
very much like whissy-there's goo
whisky and better whisky, but there
no Dad whisky. don't know, though
about the truth of that, for there nav
been few bad doctors, bur as we DIG
pend on the descendants of st. Luke {
such degree it's wise to conclud
that their intentions were honorabl
when they stai ted in and that it's be
cause of the general wickedness som
of them have grown greedy and col
hearted. Doctors, good doctors, are
thousand times more tender hearte
than any other men, because they ar
preciate the keenness of The pain an
know how il ia hurting not only you
bcdy, but your mind. They realiz
Just when you are worrying over some
thing-yes, and just what medicine so
need other than that which comes i