Identifier: quaintcornersinp00stoc (find matches)
Title: Quaint corners in Philadelphia, with one hundred and seventy-four illustrations
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Stockton, Louise, 1838-1914 Pennell, Elizabeth Robins, 1855-1936 Barber, Edwin Atlee, 1851-1916 Jackson, Joseph, 1867-1946 Turner, Eliza Sproat, Mrs., 1826-1903 Leach, Frank Willing, 1855-1943 Campbell, Helen, 1839-1918
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Publisher: Philadelphia, New York, J. Wanamaker
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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l, and never in-tended by them. The people who gave found that noone seemed any better for it all. They themselves cer-tainly were not, because constant failures disheartenedand irritated them. Give and do what they would, theynever got the better of poverty, and their ahns, theirlegacies, all seemed like dragon seed, and only broughtforth a large and undesirable crop of greater evils.They were forever multiplying relief by beggars, andfinding the result destitution. In 1831 came a hard, terrible winter of storms andbitter cold, and in 1832 the cholera. During these yearsthe charitable had to work, and had to give, but theyalso thought. They were benevolent, but that did notalso necessitate their being stupid; and our molhcisand fathers puzzled over evils which we have fanciedpeculiar to our own day, and decided upon the sameremedies. There was one good woman, Mrs. Esther Moore, aPublic Friend, who thought seriously on these matters.She remembered the days when each one knew his :#%,i
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THE BETTERiya-lIOiSE. 413 neii^hbors needs, and she felt that tlir thing to do was torcsloiT ULiuhborhood relations. The rich, slu- Ihrm^^ht,ought to educate the poor, and teach them nuiny lhin<,sthey did not know in the way of thrift, of industry, ofclcanUness and independence. It was not always tliofault of the poor when they were paupers, and she be-lieved in education as well as regeneration. Like most women, she did not theorize on the ques-tion that interested her, but began to experiment. Sheselected four blocks down town in a neighborhoodwhere the classes were mixed, and she set to workto make the personal acquaintance of each one livingthere. Her next step was to make the poor knownto the better off, and to persuade the latter to eachtake a certain number under their care. The poorwere not only to be helped to work, but they wereto be shown better and more thrifty ways. Theirhomes were to l)e made cleaner and more comfortable ;the children were to be sent to school. The re

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