The Catholic bulletin. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1911-1995, 1913-11-01

III tuC SuMul6f 10 LAKE ~ lOuS OCOhu
voyage and recuperate after winter
of devotion to her varied activities.
Frequently she was obliged to take
several days complete rest in some
health resort. She required the visit
of physician almost every week.
She kept two secretaries busy over
details. Her husband called her,
sometimes laughingly, sometimes pro-
testingly, a veritable charity ma
chine.
OF course, he did not appreciate
the great need that was always call
ing to her and making her unable to
rest while the masses suffered. His
own charities were of the scattered,
individual kind that are supposed to
pauperize the recipient. He treated
the organized work with a tolerant
indifference that showed no real COM
prehension of the problem. He never
really assisted in her great work, be-
yond allowing her freedom and
money.
1t had been Saturday when Mrs.
Wallace had bought the bargain
stockings at Sarcy's. On the Monday
following she received a letter from
the firm, enclosing check for eight
dollars, and assuring her that her
purchase would be delivered during
the day. The letter also apologized
at length for the regrettable incident,
and informed her that Alice Startling,
the impertinent sales-girl, had been
discharged. Mrs Langdon Wallace
Sarcy & Company.
| Mrs. Wallace felt that the amend
offered was barely adequate. But, in
the multiplicities of her duties, she
could spare so slight matter no
further attention. There was a meet
ing of the Factory Mothers Associa.
ton at eleven that day; luncheon
with Mrs. Carlton Chalmers at one;
committee conference at the Neigh.
borhood House at half past two; a
directors meeting at the gallery of
the Fine Art for the Poor Society at
four; the reading-hour at St. Luke's
! at five; and an evening at the opera
to follow. She decided to dismiss
from her mind all memory of the in
dignity, that, after all, belonged to a
past day.
Tuesday morning she found that the
silk stockings had come from Sarcy's
Tuesday was much like Monday
Wednesday she hardly thought OF
Sarcy's. Thursday she gave a
luncheon to leaders in the Woman's
Suffrage League; there was discus
sion of the garment-workers' strike
and she became so interested that she
pledged $1,000, for herself and hel
husband, in support of the strikers
cause. That day she utterly forgot
in her large pity for young women
who made waists at starvation wages
and under conditions that Slapped their
lives, that she had ever thought Of
such thing as bargain.
On Friday morning she was in the
hospital, experimenting the delivery
of flowers in the mems charity ward
when an emergency case was brought
in. The police had found in a dismal
west side house a man who was re
ported to be dying from weakness anG
malnutrition, following a prolonged
case of pneumonia. A woman, hys
terical with grief, came into the WARD
with the attendants who carried the
sick man. A screen was placed about
the bed on which the new patient was
laid, but the woman's means and
cries came from behind it, and dowr
the long room to Mrs. Wallace. A
nurse told her the story of the case.
i Mrs. Wallace, who was a privileged
person at st. Luke's, walked slowly
toward the screened bed. The sounds
of weeping were very disturbing, ant
she was thinking it contrary to hos
pital regulations that even a wife
should be allowed to vent such grie
there. 1t was pitiful, but the welfare
of the greater number must be con
sidered. She spoke about it to the
inferno who stood beside the screen
YES" he said, "she ought not t.
be here. They're trying to get hel
out. But it's a hard case. She's OF
the verge of a nervous collapse her
self l was on the ambulance tha
went for them, and the neighbors tel
me she has been nursing him fol
nearly three weeks, night and day
and going out somewhere to work a
the same time. Recently they've haG