New-York tribune., 1902-04-12
LET THEM PLAY. TOO.
THOSE WHO CAN AFFORD SUMMER
OUTINGS ASKED TO HELP
THOSE WHO CANNOT

Scores of working girls on small wages in this
city are going without their MONDAY luncheons
snc after 2 hard days work are walking two,
three four miles TO their homes at night, IN
order that with the accumulated coins thus saved
they may be able TO spend a week or two in the
country during the summer, said Miss Grace Dodge
at q meeting Of the Working Girls Vacation So
ciety held at Sherry's yesterday. Bishop Potter.
Hamilton II. Mabie. the Rev. Willard Parsons and
Dr.. J. ". Richardson all made strong appeals for
money with which TO extend the work and send
away on short vacations overworked and feeble
girls Mrs Richard Irwin. vice-prestdent OF the
society. presided.
"A great deal Of the boasted Development Of
modern life IS wholly mischievous,' said Bishop
Potter and The conditions Of the industrial world
are many OF them calculated TO Kill the BODY ana
TIE soul Of workers Fortunately this fact is com
ing 10 te more and more widely recognized The
man who handles his horse understands his ami
nars staying power and knows better than TO
keep him going at tense pace beyond ce-taln
number Of hours The great difference between d
CIR and a horse is that the girl has i great many
capacities for suffering possessed o. the horse
The girl cannot live under continued strenuous
conditions without going 10 pieces.
Bishop Potter hoped that every listener before
him vii be very unhappy his or her summer
outing IL before leaving town he or she does not 90
something generous that win help some yoUng girl
10 20 away. too.
M Mahie expressed himself in revolt at all the
cou1ltious that force women 10 work. IT were
Providence" he said. and It's lucky I'm not, /
should destroy the eternal equilibrium OF things
and ruin every woman in the world by providing
her with an annuity OF not Jess than $1,000
Mr. Mahie did not look forward TO I better state
Of things. when every woman in the world shan
earn her living on the contrary. ne ahicl-
pates the best OF times when every woman shali
be supported. I arD looking forward 10 an era.
he said when il VIII be possible for a woman 10
put more into atmosphere and less into toll
Contrasting primitive wants with modeTn needs
M Mabie said that FROM the earliest ldeA OF
philanthropy, which gave = man d chance to MAKE
a living. The word has advanced to the stage
whore 4 aims 70 give him chance 10 make HE
Once In great mercantile esta blish;nents, men
were recognized only as workers. Now they are
known as neIi who are TO be considered in many
other relations besides that of employe t0 en-
ployer.
There has come to be recognition of the fact
that Froebel saw long ago that there is something
IN play besides recreation. Mr.. Mabie defred the
word as literal re-creati ton" We have come 10
know" he said, that work and play are simply
oiperse forms Of the activity Play is not
merely having q good time Play Is the hlshesl
expression OF the spirit Work is not associated
Win the highest expression OF the spirit faoe-
fe"sn Plays the piano. He does not WORK the IN
strument- The outward tones are only the audible
vibrations Of the inward music. All oeautlIuI
aanes become finally play. and are trans1errea oa
- work Society becomes vampire "heh ~ 10 -
le community TO work with no opportuInifis Iif , !p
pay Every and woman in modern NE VINO
ds cnanee 70 play owes II TO hliselL anu ~ az. =,
se4L 20 give chance 10 work ana chahce ~ P'AS
Mr.. Mabie reminded his audience that when they
o. ENJOYING the deghts or lhelr couuitIg tis nnia
end haunts thousands of sweltering toilinS people
Miss Dodge pleaded for relief and country air ana
and shops and factories She reconnted tender in
cloens illustrating the gratitude Of visitors 10 the
see the country. She emphasized the need of those
N incipient stages Of pulmonary troubles for noun
said, there is nothing but work. work. work. They