The St. Louis Republic. [volume] (St. Louis, Mo.) 1888-1919, 1902-07-07

, friends which IS sure 70 hurt the feelings OF
| those who cannot pay for what some one
else gets. Then there IS one which provides
| that no contribution box shall be placed in
/ OF about the Institution. or At any other
! place for its benefit l VIII not have my
| old friends feel that they are dependent on
! charity. They must feel that there is money
there that is theirs. AMI that they are not
| dependent on any form OF charity.
Wants Them to Feel Mt Home.
'Tf We are 20 help them. can We 10 IL bet
| fer than by making them feel that II IS
their home. and the money which supports
it Is their money And the miserable. con
| temptibie verses hat are so often seen
pasted on those contribution boxes. Giving
to the poor Is lending 10 the Lord and the
like, At every turn they are reminded OF
| their poverty.
: Here Is a contract with a hospital:
\ gave them 5000 and they at first raised
the same amount, when few weeks before
! they told me they could not raise S2.Uo TO
keep the Little hospital they had from being
! abandoned. Later they raised another SO
Oe. arl ii IS now rich institution Ny
/ conditions We're hard. and they fought me
! for months over then, but they feel differ
! emily now. I proyitsi that the building
I should cost S-5uyO and the remaining $4,000
]
! which I named after the widow Of an eN-
| Governor u the State. solely because she
: was Il good woman. She had not dollar
I 10 give. Then I provided that every patient
: who had no money should be paid AZ the
rate OF s. per week, out uG this permanent
I fund. II there were no poor patients they
] got none or the fund
| To Help the sick PoOr.
Now Let me tell you why / dld this
/ went 60 chicago one day To look over hos
| pitaI which had asked me for help. on the
/ ground that they We're doing much charity
: work. 1 found that the charity patients
Z had an average stay In the hospital Of thir-
4 teen days anu two hours Later visited
/ the Sisters of Mercy Hospital in Dubuque.
/ where the charity patients were paid for
| by thc city. I found there that the charity
Z patients had an average stay of over hve
weeks ON a closer inquiry in Chicago l
learned that the sick poor were hustled
about from one hospital 10 another. and
] everywhere were turned out as soon as pos
siblr. and often long before they We're well.
/ wanted m. hospital 90 have an Incentive
Tor keeping tho Tour as Ions as they were
too sick 20 help themselves.
Then. again. 1 found often that there
were men and women Who preferred TO die
outside in the abjectest poverty rather than
feel their q. d.pandsuce on charity. In pro-
yiJiuE that f;EL II was possible for the hos
iitsI people Coz make them feel that they
were actually comforting a favor or the in
s'itutiou in coming there. Why Because
II would s.; To money unless q earned II.
50 these poor fellows were made to feel
Eo"d about it. and were cOrEcspoudingly
happy.
Investigates before Giving.
'EeEEing, lettyrss'' he rereat,d. in answer
70 the question Yes. get thousands %
letters Of all kInds-I,tter- asking me how I
work my cbagiLa5: letters telling me that
ought 20 have a helper. and girI.nc Up
with some good woman offert-g fT marry
me: Others ask for donations for ,-sry con-
ccivabl. purpose; some Offering rDe money
for my work
'.Bur II Is not through letters that find
out what 20 do I 20 into town. attracted
perhaps by a little item In a paper. say
nothing but fad out things. one time 1
went into a town and found there vas an
cid woman's home where the inmates we're
placed two IN n small room that had To be
chGlked acrUss TO keep the occupants from
quarrelinE- They asked ne 20 Luy a quilt.
as they were having 10 make and sell things
or close the institution. I refused 20 buy the
guilt, because ] could not see any good that
money would do. but hunted up the rich
est man in the town and told him that II
he and his neighbors would raise So.0oo 1
would give the same. He laughed at me.
and said tie thing Was utterly impossible: