New-York tribune., 1902-07-20
THE NEGLECTED ONES.
ALMOST NO PROVISION MADE FOR RE-
DuCED GENTLEwOMEN WHO ARE
NOT IN GOOD HEALTH-HoMEs
THEIR GREAT NEED.

Surflc6nt
an of deep sympathes and wide knowledge of con-
dtions among the less fortunate. Her eyes took
on a sombre look as she gazed into the threnged
street below.
1T don't take a vacation" said she, because
think of those named IN one phrase of Grace
Church prayers. Those who by reason OF poverty
forgotten
There is more protection vouehsafed by this
great brutal, unthinking city against the winter
cold than the summer heat. When these grisy
days come the days when people die overnight In
their beds OF the heat, can only think OF certain
women that know In this cty--women of culture.
refinement. gentle upbringlng-to-day sitting in
eupboard-ke bedrooms In tenement houses. actu-
ally weak from insufficient nourshment. and un-
able TO afford the 10 cents necessary TO take
streetcar ride to a recreation pier.
1t is social question most carefully ignored
she continued by those who should consider IL.
this one of how 10 help women OF the better class
who by Ill fate without money work or health.
The phrase of the better class is used solely for
convenience. / believe in but class-that OF
humanity-hut humanity is too large 10 be consid-
cred as whole. So will take thought only for
these women in New-York to-day. How to make
the comfortable part OF society understand the
plight OF their hapless first cousins. unless the
comfortable have also suffered. know not. The
gulf between Lazarus and Dives in the next world
is no wider than that which exists between persons
OF differing experiences in this life, although they
walk side by side. live with only house wall
between them. Only one thing unites one with an
a
sympathy.
SAD CASE.
The other day the assistant of a wealthy town
church spoke of a case who had been to him for
help day or two before. She was an artist. lately
out of a hospital. after OF those heroic opera
tiOn5 which leave the brain nil. the nerves trem-
bling. the strength depleted. for year to come
Her means were exhausted she tmplored help TO
enter convalescent home II there were one. or
help 10 exist till she could work.
But couldn't do anything for her. the assist
ant said easily. Our large missions on the East
Side monopolize subscriptions and the contri-
buttons Sundays don't go round Think or that
woman UNIT to be out of bed for months. pain
fully crawling the streets, in the prostratins heat
without food, without certain shelter. every poor
fibre OF body and soul crying for relief. and no
help in sight for her anywhere in this prosperous.
great New-York, which has just had ss'Ooo.ooo
kindly taken off its tax rolls.
Not long since the assistant at my own church
sent a lady 20 rue With note asking me 10 learn
her needs she had been sent TO him for help.
Rigid, clay Tipped cold IN manner. she was the
most repellent creature ever approached, but IN
months 7 came know her story well. woman
OF culture and travel. contributing TO foreign re-
views. the widow OF we'll known dseoverer. she
had been grossly defrsuded. and. as usually fol-
lows. 20 screen the wrong every avenue possible
10 work had been barred 20 her lons enough 20
exhaust her slender means. She had been sent 10
the lodgings for women-charities which are the
resort OF many well born women in stralts-but
they were so crowded that in a week she had been
obliged 20 change quarters hve times. as q bed or
sofa free for night. From the Hirsch Home
10 St Mary's. the Girls Home. the Second Avenue
Home. back and forth. the forlorn wanderer had
been forced TO pace. IN the dead midsummer heat.
living scanty unwholesome food Now she
down with enterc fever. in cheeress hall
room by Z. among strangers. In a cheap lodging,
without food care or comfort or clean laundry.
Where IS one 10 get cool room. ice water, or
anges. whipped eggs. pineapple juice. fresh sheets
I'D wF-hN 0zA @hE lFH NxNfH
cut short Illness and preserve the strength Ny
good minister's $50 had mostly gone pay back
board 20 redeem her trunk. that she might have
at least change OF clothes IN the sultry weather.
FORGOTTEN IN HER POVERTY
II nearly collapsed. soing from TO another
well placed society some OF which should have
known her father for his gifts to them-a hundred
thousand dollar endowment here. a school cleared
from debt there. another founded by his nberality.
After his death on his books found record Of
s2S 900 paid for the education of poor ministers
daughters-a generosity OF which one had known
20 S.ya hailed e. gy With Joy the Invitation t50m friend
country house where she could gain strength IN |
less than three weeks. however she was back. An |
not at all like the brilliant talker and pianist OF a
lew seasons before who was invited to be useful in
coolly notified that circumstances would obge Mrs
women Of certain stamp are perfectly capable Of
things ..n like this g poor friend
issued her six weeks avitaton ~ was e friend s pooT o
indeed. but with creditable country house ward
hostesss invitations and letters and amuse the
RS & thf has been for
three years one OF uncertainty and privation, sub
stltute work offering few months hard driven
toll which has left her strength run down by the
utter want of any real comfort and physical care.
rowing anxiety and semi starvation for months.
when when she has existed by the aid OF friendly women
this-shattered nerves. mind astray and asy-
lum;
Hasn't she friends, relatives. anybody to for
her? She has the usual assortment. a brother with
family in another State, not rich at all, with a
would be a hanger-on. This wife is quite convinced
that brilliant women have only to walk into any
very wide at this point between Mrs. Dives and
a shop. but the shops don't want gray haired
women without shop training nor do people needing
capacity, however capable and thrifty.
NO PLACE TO GO.
In trying to help gentewoman who is old and
penniless learned from women who are church
workers, and the clergy. that there will not be a
vacancy in any home for the aged for two years 10
come The waiting list is so large. The conva-
lescents homes in summer apt TO be given up
to poor girls needing country air.
"One plain fact is that homes for the aged are
TOO much taken up by the offshoots of well 10 do
faIaIles fr les who & quietly pay the premium and send
set rid OF expense and trouble themseives
.,3t But Won say any more OF this branch OF the
highly cultured musical woman over sixty HeS from
oeins turned into tho street from dropping dead
Of nourshment She came near i Il last smsr msat
when another finished artist, twenty years a de,
country, died Of the heat at her lodgings ana wss
the pFted ssn Se &c the Of MSoesgys dor by The andad
tian Association IN Fifteenth-st had NOT nrompf
'Rs have ssSf Se sSa Saa Re r
as as me reward or 6lameless. hard working life