New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1902-04-14

Al recent meeting of a Brooklyn club. when
the subject for discussion was philanthropy VS.
Higher Wages" a member related a incident that
tended TO show that philanthropy sometimes over
reach itself She passed a part of last summer
at fashionable hotel where a young woman
whom she knew devoted all her leisure time to
ernbroidering table centrepieces and similar ar
ticles The young woman one day confded TO her
friend that she working for fair given an
nually by a benevolent clue for the charity work
OF the winter, the proceeds going to poor women
''I happened 10 know said the speaker, that in
was in danger of being closed because It could not
mage 70 pay she fba} doDe by NV friend for
charity is sent to the exchange by women whose
because the women who ought TO buy IT spend their
money at the far Il is mus ~ 9qte s %I5nn on 5He
who compelled to accept charity from TINS
club did not enter into competition with them in
their own line Of industry II women would pat
more Of those they want to help would be self
supporting.
At the opening ceremonies Of St Georges
Home for Deaconesses Dr.. Huntington in his ad-
dress told this story illustrating the spirit Of
friendliness that the deaconesses contrive TO in
spire: ''One Of those connected with Grace Church
formed a Sunday class of her own, and the meet
one d@y when She said Let US pray new little
girl piped up cheerfully. Yes! Let's"
The newest occupation for women is that Of run
ming an elevator The guests the reception and
commencement exercises Of a training school for
nurses held recently were surprised TO see girl
in nurses costume at the helm" Of The elevator,
and a man irnpulsivey tried 10 stop her as she
started the car. She explained that she did II
regularly, and he permitted her, but with evident
apprehension, TO proceed ~.
in his address: Woman improves everything she
touches Even the elevator moves smoothly ana
without jerks when she runs il Woman is na a
in business or elsewhere he is uplfted and made
better"
The new tangled" appliances with which cook
cry is taught IL the public schools do not meet
with the approval of all those who are familiar
with the resources Of the average tenement house
child. II believe thoroughly in the good old fash
Toned range IN teaching cooking. said philanthro-
pst who knows the needs OF the poor from per
sonal observation. II find that many girls who
unable to get fathers breakfast with the
rails hand If the knowledge they obtain is to
be of any practical use to the girls 1t must be
associated with the articles they use in their
homes"
The wash LADY, had exciting experience to
relate to her employer and this is how she told it:
1T was the Quarest thing that happened
on the strate. mum. The payple the top floor
was bein' dispossessed, an the woman towld her
husband to git a cart take their things away.
Well num- you'd oughter have seen the inigant
wagon that come. II the high-tonedest, tip
topiest van the loikes of il never seen on our
block before II was all padded like a parlor. and
wild the most illigant red roses and gilt painting
IL
wtndics, and not wan " US could tell where II
came from An 10 see the ovid things that {hey
brought down and put in it, There was three
chairs an a broken table, an ovid stove wild
three legs an a mattress. Begorra, the bidstead
was that ovid that they had TO lave 1t behind An
the quare part OF it was that the woman wouIdn
TELL where the van come from. She said that she
didn't know how she go!n' TO move. and thln
up an comes this high toned wagon! IT'S mighty
quare, an it's been the talk o the block Tor
wake NUM-"
"AI the gymnastic exercise that q small growing
bow needs can be obtained by Of a swing,
with a board which he can stand said a
woman the other day when discussing the methods
she had pursued in bringing up her own children
and the experience she had gained by her asso-
citation with educational work. 1T is possible to
have such a swing in almost every home where
there are children. ANY who has observed
small boy swinging must have noticed that every
part OF the body is brought into motion. To &C
duire momentum the child crouches down and
then straightens out, and the swing back
and forth every muscle is brought into play.
Every growing boy should devote least ten
minutes daily to this form OF exercise, for it IS
worth more than all the patent gymnasttc appl1-
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