The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-11-24
WOkiAN IN CHARITIES
BY MRS. EDWARD X. PowE. Editor.

! ty they also extend their work Over
the whole wide field of philanthropy.
1t was from the clear brain and
noble heart of a woman that the lGea
of trained nursing for the sick devel-
oped. Prompted by an overwhelming
pity for the sick and suffering, Flor.
ence Nightingale left ner comfortable
| home TO carry care and love to tbs
crimson soldiers dying on the parcring
| olttlefields or neglected in rude hos
| pitals. She seemed to those poor suf-
! fererS like an angel from heaven
| where such thoughts as hers are BON
| and the result of her life work rests
like the benedicrion over the whole
world where the white robod nurses
bring cheer ard healing into the sick
rooms Of the poor deniGens of The
slums, the pain-racked soldiers, or the
luxurious milliona res
Like hers in the name of another
woman known wherever suffering is
felt, Clara Rartcn, former president
of the Red Cross Society. Through the
society which she did SO much to
build up, she was the ever-ready help
er in appeals from famine stricken
Russia to war stricken Africa.
70 the neral sufferers who. FOR
whatever cause nave committed
crimes against society. Mrs. Balling-
ton Booth goes, giving from her
motherly heart sympathy and advice,
and in her Hope Halls doing what She
can to reinstate the reformed convicts
in society again. during those first
hard probationary years when the
whole Christian world seems against
them.
In philanthropic sociology women
have been and are most able leaders.
Seeing the untold physical and
moral wretchedness in the crowded
slums of over-crowled London Miss
Octavia Hull gave her time and money
to the planning and establishing Mod
ell Tenement Houses. where iii light
and sanitary homes. at small cost the
poor working men and women live
ard rear their children in refined
and healthful atmosphere. Now the
model tenement is an institution III
London, where it proves a paying in
vestmont IL money and morals. anI
has been copied to advantage in our
country.
Another fine woman in this country
has given her life and fortune for the
uplifting of the poor and depraved.
In one of the worst parts of Chicago
some fifteer or more wears ago, NJ iss
Jane Adams established Hull House
and it shines there today like a star 81
promise of better things in the realms
| os morals and domestic life.
| IT was among the college women
here that the College Settlement NOV
lnent began it's .regeneratve work II
| The Slun1s and became tn parent, as Il
| were, of many off-shoots as Hull
| House. all of which have been of un-
told benefit in relievingg suffering and
| upliftingg morals.
In every city today where crowded
humanity has every induCement t.
vice and brutality, there are WomeI
working for its relief. even facing leg
islators in State capitolsl to plead 70
| some remedial measure.
/ Most noble and generous aid has
come and is coming from men who
have taken the work of charity into
| broader fields than ever women could
| without them. But there is no ego
tism in saying that the inception OF
this great work which breatheS into
the laws of State and city the spirit
of the Golden Rule, and gives an out
ct for energy and money which would
| otherwise be ruthlessly squandered
had its rise in the patient tender
heart of woman.
MRS HATTIE POWE LYNCH