The San Francisco call., 1910-03-13
BETTER
THAN TEACHING
SAYS MESSAGE
Believes In Using Millions Left
by Her Husband id AIIe=
waiting Suffering
Sickness, Misfortune. Fires and
Forced Miseries of Life APP
peal to Rich Woman
{ Special Dispatch 10 The Call


PASADENA. March l2.-Nrs. Russell
sage. who is spending a few weeks here
before she proceeds TO san Francisco.
talked TO a Call correspondent today
about charity and the ways she is fol-
lowing in trying TO do good in the
world with the millions left TO her by
her husband
AS long as / had something to give
ard somebody else needed it would
ways divide she sad. When I was
a teacher in Philadeip phia with salary
"t 500 a year-a sum teachers of the
present day would not look at was
willing 10 give my tenth to the Lord
You know. charity has two meanings.
7 like the Corinthian one-love-and
the perfect gift viii carry love both in
the giving and the receiving"
WHERE CHARITY Is WASTED
In speaking OF the distress in the
world today. Mrs. Sage showed her
realization Of its presence by grimly
quoting Horace Greeley, that every man
knows how the other man lives because
one-half Of the world has TO pay TO
support the other half" She attributed
poverty in general TO the fact that men
shirk their duties and responsibilities
ity wasted on those who wait TO be
helped"
sickness. misfortune. fires, the
forced miseries of life-these are the
conditions I would alleviate she de-
clsred. those who. having lived right
eously and prudently. come 10 want
in their old age You know. Coventry
Patmore says that the three most pitt
ful things in life are childhood without
parentage. youth without love and old
age without money. and he is right.
LIFTING BETTER THAN TEACHING
We all have our ideas about help
ing people Mr.. Carnegie has his par
ticular way and / hear that Z. K. Pear
sons. who at the ge OF 90 years re-
Gently announced his intention Of Civ
ing away his last million. received 500
letters a day telling him how to do it.
But I believe that lifting is better than
teaching. When Christ fed the multi
rude you know he did not give any
1etic. He just fed the hungry YOU
remember. ] think that Is very sig
nifcant- And I believe when people
are II need they should be lifted out
OF their conditions. Lift them out
OF tuberculosis when you can. out Of
ali dead conditions into live ones"
do you find people grateful for the
assistance you give them, Mrs. Sage"
she was asked.
INSPIRATION GUIDES GIFTS
4 find a great deal Of gratitude At
the same time IL is like the Savior
healing the 10 lepers One came hack
10 thank him. Human nature is much
the same today Some tell OF their
gratitude. Some don't ] have never
been able TO analyze why some are
seemingly unEraCeful
Mrs sage SAYS in the distribution of
the money Of which she considers her
self the steward she is guided by in
s1iratiou.
They have said that leave il 70 my
lawyers. but that is not true. 1 have
pable men and ] use their judgment,
bur not their intuition.
Il work through organized charities
because that is ordinarily the best way
WhT. IL would be impossible for me 10
answer all the letters that come to
me. I get sometimes as many as 900
. day never could read SO many.
APPEAL SENT TO SOCIETY
why 1 would not have any eyes left
in my head If I had the time. Today
had a letter from q woman in Los An
Eeles which 1 turned over TO the as
sociated charities: because that was the
place for the appeal. She was in dis
tress and needed placing where she
could become 'self-supporting and they
viii be best able TO provide for her.
But ] do not conhne myself TO or
Sanized charity. When made nv last
gift, the one TO Yale. I did not do that
through organized charity. I knew
they needed the money and gas glad I
could let them have it. II was the
same way with the school from which
I was graduated. II needed enlarging
and ! was glad TO help them
RECALLS DAYS As TEACHER
the Troy seminary. from which she
was graduated in 5S47. Mrs. Sage said:
One Of. my teachers advised me to
teach. when later. through misfortune
7 was thrown upon my own resources.
saying. Nothing is really our own un-
III we have impaired it TO others and
I feel that the work I did in teaching
Is IS good as anything have done"
Teaching Mrs Sage considers the
highest vocation for a woman who is
not 4 wife or mother.
Christ represents perfect humanity,
ana no other man or woman separated
from each other can represent il Man
and woman, united in harmonious pur-
pose IN the perpetuation OF Gods plan
FOR the world, are the nearest approach
TO perfect humanity we can attain.
And teaching little children is the next
vocation for a woman"
Until the last Of March Mrs Sage
viii remain at Hotel Raymond. where
she. with Major and Mrs. Slocum. are
comfortably ensconsed in the cottage
which was occupied by the Harrimans
during their visit 10 Pasadena last
year.