The Irish standard. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn. ;) 1886-1920, 1907-09-07

and I was able to provide it, 1t is moth
ing more than l should have done, so
why talk about it? Say that they have
hospital, but don't mention my name.
Go out and find some woman who does
hard work six days every week and
on the seventh gives her time and her
strength to some less fortunate wo-
man, and this for no compensation.
There are hundreds Of such women in
New York-thousands of them. Now
that story would do more good and be
more interesting than to just print
yarn about my doing this little thing"
1t is always little thing that
Mrs. Ryan does. Be 1t to build
cathedral, church, hospital or mis-
sion. 1t is a little. thing" to find en-
ployment for men and women who
have others depending upon their ef-
forts; it is a little thing "to make
work. for women. who are untitled by
the progress of the day to meet the
demands Of present conditions. 1t is
"a little thing" to send an i'll woman or
delicate boy out into Gods country,
where the air is undef1led, the food
nourishing and the strain Of work is
not.
I have seen poor needlewomen taking
to Mrs. Ryan fine altar linens or baby
clothes, which she pays them we'll to
make, and when they turned away
from Fifth avenue they carried liber-
al wage and the value of their work
in good tonics, olive oils and some of
the choice fruits or expensive jellies-
those little things the poor cannot al
ways afford.
Many a shop girl in New York has
been driven to No. 60 Fifth avenue in
Mrs. Ryan's fine carriage and gone back
to her more humble home richer for
the interest of Mrs. Ryan. On her
eyes wander keenly behind the long
counters in search of those women
with the tired, stopping shoulders and
feverish color; such a one is never
passed in silence, and either to the
girls herself Of through the manager
Of the store, Mrs. Ryan offers a chance
to fight the disease, and there is never
but one stipulation-"that nothing be
said about it,"
Out in the dry sand desert Of Ari-
zona, where nature has proved that
she is the greatest doctor for tuber-
culosis there are whole colonies of
''lungers" supported by the munificence
of Mrs. Ryan. During her many vis-
its into that arid section, where both
Of the boys she has lost went seeking
health, Mrs. Ryan saw the dire need
for such work. Many afflicted men and
women find themselves stranded i'm
that country where living is costly
and work in the beneficial section very
scarce. In such places Mrs Ryan has
established camps or aided those al
ready organized. No movement that
makes for better fight against the
spread of tuberculosis or toward a
possible cure goes unaided by Mrs.
Ryan.
One afternoon as she sat knitting a
baby coat in her big home-like sit
ting room, this subject was opened.
The click Of the ivory needles stopped
her eyes filled with tears as Mrs
Ryan said:-
ut seems to me there is no other
physical afhiction so terrible in this
world. 1t just makes my heart bleed
to see the young men and women Of
our country cut down in the very
youth by this dread disease. have
seen the blight touch young mothers
with little babes at their sides, and
with so much work yet to do. And
have seen old mothers watch the life
go out of their boys or their only girls
the children in whom lay the JOY
j Of their living-and yet nothing could