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But I've been hearing what you are doing, and it occurred to me that you must come across a good many cases not in the regular charities that you could help judiciously, get them over hard spots, without encouraging dependence. I'm going to put ten thousand dollars into your hands, if you'll be bothered with it, to use at your discretion.
As I said before, I feel that had I realized your true motives at the time Lans graduated from preparatory school, I would have been eager to place him in your charge to learn the great business of life and the use of wealth in your way. I made an error; I confess it willingly. Since then I have heard of your wise and private charities " "I never give charity, madam!" "You are so modest!
"Is your mother living?" interrupted Welborn. "She must be a gentle, thoughtful woman, well-grounded in the old fashioned ideas of kindness in social service, to have raised a son with such ideals. People, now-a-days, expect pay, even for their charities. You will have much trouble and many disappointments if you approach a sordid world with such sentiments."
"Company Manners," Florence Converse in "Atlantic," January, 1898. Proceedings of Twenty-second Conference of Charities, 1895, p. 88. Proceedings of International Congress of Charities, volume on "Organization of Charities," p. 21. Eleventh Report of Boston Associated Charities, p. 31. p. 27.
She had been to one of Lady Towcester's afternoon parties "to keep up our spirits." Lady Towcester collected for at least six different charities and funds, and Mrs. Rossiter was a generous subscriber to all six. "But don't you know why?" said Lady Victoria. Mrs. Rossiter didn't.
At that time I, too, believed in the system of charities which you have so well characterized as pauperizing." "And now?" Mr. Bentley smiled, as at a reminiscence. "My eyes were opened," he replied, and in these simple words summed up and condemned it all. "They are craving bread, and we fling them atones. I came here.
No one would have accused Ault of being devoted to any special kind of religious worship; but he was equally tolerant of all religions, and report said was liberal in his wife's church charities. Besides the fact that he owned a somewhat pretentious house in Sixtieth Street, society had very little knowledge of him. It was, however, undeniable that he was a power in the Street.
Boyne himself had been disembodied for more than a century: Burt and Hamble were still of the flesh; but a greater than Burt or Hamble was Blancove- -the Sir William Blancove, Baronet, of city feasts and charities, who, besides being a wealthy merchant, possessed of a very acute head for banking, was a scholarly gentleman, worthy of riches.
The furniture and effects in and about the house were to be sold, and the proceeds placed at the disposal of the county authorities for the benefit of local charities. Every outdoor servant was to receive six months' pay, every in-door servant twelve months' pay, in lieu of notice. Geirt was to join Mr.
CLOPPER: Child Labor in the City Streets. MARTIN: "Exhibit of Congestion," art. in The Survey,20: 27-39. GOODYEAR: "Household Budgets of the Poor," art. in Charities, 16: 191-197. "The Pittsburgh Survey," arts, in The Survey, vol. 21. LEE: Constructive and Preventive Philanthropy, pages 109-184.
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