New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1903-12-01
WISDOM IN CHARITY.
Minerva Criticises Various Kinds of Philan-
thropy

Wisdom IN Charity" was the subject which
Minerva after eating its first subscription break
iast OF the season. concerned itself with yes
terday at the Waldorf-Astoria- The literary part
OF the programme was in charge of Nine. Marie
= Newhaus who set the ball of discussion arolling
by scoring The charity which consists only in Civ
ing There are many so-called charities which
are absolutely misdrected, and where the money
spent would do Infinitely greater good in wiser
hands" she declared. And she concluded by quot
ing the following lines by Ernest Crosby, which
were applauded by the followers of Minerva:
BROTHERHOOD AND CHARITY
would you make brothers Of the poor b. giving to
Try It. and find that in a world of unequals it is
7bs-dth ; most unbrotherly of acts
mere Is no gulf between unequal men so wide as
There + no wall so impossible as money given and
There is nothing so unfraternaI as the dollar it is
Make brothers Of the % poor If vou G VIII b9t do it
by ceasing to steal from them
~ASrIIy separates: justice unites.
After that each speaker struck a different note
IN her definition Of Wisdom in Charity"
Only common applied TO giving the
way Mrs Clarence Burns expressed it. In four
teen years OF work IN the tenements," she said. Il
never had a man. woman or child ask me for five
cents The worthy poor never beg-what they
went Is not aims, but work. Those who beg on
The streets nearly all fakes There are two
kinds Of charity workers I afraid of-the wom-
an who takes family. and. after petting it for
patronizes The key TO the situation lies with the
children. for a woman will sit in her dirty house.
with her dirty children. and never try for any
thing better. As woman said to me- You think
I'VE bad? lived a hundred times worse in Rus
sia. This is good enough for me-"
Mrs Burns deprecated the placing of children In
institutions, and criticised the Charity Organization
Society for giving a starving family of or
eight 50-cent ticket for groceries. If they are
going TO help at all, why don't they give the family
enough TO be OF some real good?'
In closing, Mrs Burns urged her hearers to vote
for hot luncheons in the public schools. If they
ever got the chance
THE genteeI poor need providing for as much
as the very poor" said Mrs. Martha Vincent
Mrs Belle Gray Taylor thought If she were An
drew Carnegie she would not put all her spare cash
into libraries Books are great things but you
can't eat them" she affirmed,
marked Mrs. Edward Balbeck. IF ever we estab-
through the Kindergarten"
Mrs. Martha Williams thought instruction in
scientific charity badly needed. 1T used to
De thought that charity, like Dogberrys reading
that charity is both art and science" she said
n-ar rS HeWhaus Wound up the discussion with a
economizing by doing their mending and millinery
ana then giving the money they save to the poor.
Don't DO It Employ the seamstress and IniIIiner
to do your work. and pay them good wages. and
Wa ReS a 1P t9e finest and no0lest thing you
Among the one hundred or more women who at
garten; Mrs Frederick a. Bags Mrs. John suIzer.
MS Belle Gray Taylor, Mrs Frank P. Laub. Mrs.
Edgar Madden, Mrs. Frank Crowen Mrs. De Rivar
Mrs. Helen Renney, Mrs. Joseph A. Cozzno, Mrs.
Aiclnous =: JamIson, Mrs Jose Maria de Biz
mingham, Mrs Alfred MerreIL Mrs. Eleanor Feeley,
Mrs John Jay Allen; Mrs. George W. Albright
Mrs. Richard H Reed. Mrs a. H Vernilye Mrs
9ieorge, Everan Mrs J e, Martin. Mrs Charles
r. 4ertlune, Mrs, William Neidlinger Mrs. Martha
Vincent, Mrs. Henry c. Mathews, Mrs. Clark A
BrockWay, Mrs. Henry R Hewitt, Mrs. Francis NJ
Weeks, Baroness Won Orendorff, Mrs NJ w Stone
Mrs; Pearl stone Miss Anne E. Harbrook, Mrs.
r a MuFcOck. Mrs Butler Smith Mrs Wilbur
D Ellis. Mrs. Gilbert Leaman Mrs F. A Yawger
Mrs Katherine a Conklin, Mrs. Mary F. Hoffman
Mrs. Paul S. Merrifeld, Mrs. Frank G. Burke
MIS-. John C. Wood Mrs. William Goulding Mrs
WllH9rn " Henley, Mrs. Francis Richards and
MIS- Martha Williams, Of Brooklyn. After the en-
IeeTtainrnent every one stayed for sandwiches and
Der a. will be a recital OF "Parsifal