The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, January 12, 1902, Page 3

Some OF San Francisco’s Maid§ and Matrons who areg Good Workers 18 the Calse OF Qharity. c Love thy s s s he who ure or comfort to & er pleasure or comfort. “Th 1 s that of givin, sneer at the soclety e butterflies and ers, “that self- unknow: them and y that as isting in a fair tion soclety girls are et them be asked to at for a poor woman s of the poverty-stricken Now a little story ut Jennie Blair refutes Miss Blair was rung up retaries of the Doctor’s sked to go to a family ther was dying. Miss Blair he poverty-stricken home before The poor mother able, and then the Good her knee. In P He aid not d took it for granted nt's neighbor. 1" he said. “Drop the k. Bring basin, water s arrived hurry followed his directions as If she had been born and bred a nurse, When the doctor went away he said: “You're all right. Just keep it up. Mind the patient and see that the children a cared for. Don’t forget the medicine.” A few days later the physician met Blair at a reception, but failed to ect her with his able assistant. He began to talk about society charity work- ers, and said they were absolutely use- less in a sickroom. H( then recounted the story of the sick woman and praised the conduct of “the good little neighbor who showed such common sense in an emergency.” And it was not until somebody told him that the Good Samaritan and Miss Blarr were and the same person that he “caught on.” After that he only had good words for soclety workers. Miss Blair is probably the most promi- among the young women of the rt set who are numbered among the charitable worki If it were not for her ‘energy and enthusiasm the Doctor's Daughters would not have held together =0 well. She gives money to the good work, and what is more valuable—time. She personally visits the poor and this Titian haired angel is thoroughly beloved by the recipients of her bounty. Other Doctor's Daughters—one speaks of the unmarried Daughters and mot the matrons, of whom there are many in the society—are Suzanne McEwen, Helen ‘Wagner, Charlotte Field, Annie Buckbee, Margaret Salisbury, Olive Holbrook, Ber- ice Drown and Katherine Dillon. Miss THE SUNDAY CALL. Dillon, by the way, Is interested in ail sorts of charitable schemes. She helps clubs for working girls and contributes to libraries for them. She is never thoughtlessly generous, as many are. She looks into the charities and helps under- standingly. Bernie Drown is the “boofer lady" of the Children’s Hospital. When she was abroad the poor little invalids m very much, and since her retu faces have been one vast, substa smile, like Tiny Tim's in the Christmas story, Dickens’ immortal “Carol.” Kindergarten work appeals to so many girls because there is such a lot of va- riety in it. There is the visiting, for one thing, and the helping get up Christmas fetes and summer outings. Any number of soclety girls are interested in the work of the Golden Gate Kindergarten Society. Among the managers are Olive Holbrook, Therese Morgan, Helen Stubbs and Mary Taylor. On the visiting committee are Annie Field, Marie Voorhies and Ella Bender. Among the contributors to the kindergarten fund are Rose Hooper, Ber- tha Dolbeer, Cora Smedberg, Pearl Sabin, Helen Dean, Edith McBean, the Duttons, and all the Crockers. Therese Morgan is a most enthusiastic visitor. She iIs besides one of the most generous givers in the swim. Her purse is always open to the pe- titioner. It was Miss Morgan, was It not, who one day found a little girl crying in the street? She found that the child was be- ing sent from Ventura to Eureka and the woman who hadl come as far as; San Francisco with her had just time to catch her own train, -so the child was left lamenting. * She had not the slightest idea where to find her boat.. The kind soclety girl found the child’s boat for her and saw her safely off for her desti- nation. The Stubbs sisters” are very much in- terested in slum work and kindergartens. Marie Voorhies also delights in teaching the little ignorants of the slums. Bertha Dolbeer has this kind spirit that unself- ishly does for others. “Dalsy Van Ness, with her clever needle, turns out any number of garments’ for the poor. She can make the sweetest baby clothes and. does not disdain the less attractive gingham for;aprons for the old women. The Smith sisters, Lucille and Jullette, are all-round charity workers. They cook turkeys and prepare cranberry sauce for very poor familles during’ the holiday seasons, carry flowers and fruits. to the hospitals and sew for 'other poor people the whole year round. . Laura McKinstry's great heart was stirred by the needs of ‘tHe poor soldfers in the hospitals during the Red Cross ser- vice and it was that which décided her to become a trained nurse. Just now home sorrows and sickness have kept Miss McKinstry from her chosen work. She always lends a sympathetic ear to tales of woe and. has.a sweet way.of admin- istering comfort that makes her universai- 1y beloved. The Hopkins sisters, while they do not actively’. engage in charitable work, are ever ready to help with their money. They attend all the society events given for sweet charity and help out in other ways. Ethel and Alice Hager are also among the always generous givers. Alice Hoffman is willing to do anything that ‘will be of assistance.’ If it Is a baby that needs. clothing she will sew her fingers to.the bone for it. If a child has cut its finger she knows how to_dress the wound. If somebody is needed to carry food to a poor family, if Miss Hoffman is asked to ‘do it she will willingly accede. Helen de Young is a kind-hearted little maid and-when she is in town with her grandmother joins in the good work of the Catholic | Ladies’ Aid ; Soclety. Agnes Tobin is also interested in this noble char- ity. . A club_of ladies that sew for the poor and alds in other ways is the Mizpah So- .clety. Among the young ‘women workers in:the Mizpali are M. L. Elliott, - Alma, Doane, Ruth Rathbone and Ruth Turner. There are many soclety girls helping on the work of the “Fruit and Flower Mis- sion,” also that of the Little Sisters’ In- fant Shelter. Dalsy Burns, one of last season’s buds, is. an energetic-charity worker. She de- lights in sewing for and assisting: the poor. _ 3 But probably no charitable organization contains so many workers from soelety’s rapks as does the Young Women's Christian Association. There are so many branches conmected - with this— | training classes, visiting, Thanksgiving ,and Christmas dinners, teachers' aid department, cooking school, King's Daughters, etc—that a huge army of workers is required to carry them out properly. - Among the young women who help execute the many de- mands of the Y. W. C. A. are Helen Van Winkle, May Scott, Agnes Sadler, the Lohman sisters, Jennie Martil, L. Baker, A. Unger and Mary Farquharson. These are only a few of the society girls who do good work “in His name.” Many are in private charities. Some glve music lessons to those too poor to af- lunch rooms, ford to pay a professional teacher. Others help by buying liberally from the tables of the Woman's Exchange. Many are enrolled ameng the church ald so- cieties. Truly the greatest of these is charity. TRIVIALITIES THAT FURNISH CLEWS FOR THE POLICE. with guishing VERYBODY him many carries ut v meahs of shrewd detective can dis iden Take the matter of clothes Most men all their clothing from the same tailor: but whether one does or not, however careful he may be to cv y tag and mark, the tailor the clothes ean stitch- ing, but t own tale. Mo these extras which “specials.” These are 2 peckets, fountain pem or wateh pockets cigar, tickst, flask and inner waistcoat pockets. It will be rem hat it was by means of a trou tton that the fden- tity of N who tried to blow u s aiscovered. Then your finger are liable to be- tray you. Any mar tell you that it takes between 105 and 130 days for a new fi ow upon the hand of a man health, according to his age, the nail growing quicker on the ger nall to g in ordina young and slower on the old. So any bruise, or other m received on the white crescent at the base of the nail, ‘will tal nearly four months to disappear. It was a knowledge of fact that en- abled a detective to arrest the forger Simpson in Paris not long ago. He iearned son’s landlord, in Bristol, ¥hat on the man's handh some time in the the detec black spot w ppearing from the tip of the thumb-na It was the only cation, for Simpson, by means of ider shaving his head 1 dressing like a priest, had absolutely changed his ap- pearance. Some time ago a criminal was brought to justice by the testimony of his own watch, one which he had carried for years. He was charged with murder, and his defense was an alibi, which he nearly that he had not been near the scene the murder for three nths, and imony could be pro- duced that he was not telling the truth » detectives, who at one proved. He sa s, apprentice, hap- until one ¢ ler time had been a j pened to look at the man's watch. Inside the watch case, written in that only a wateh r could , was the evi- dence that the timepiece had been in the hands of a repairer of watches the day before t the watch in his hands the detective visited the town near which t murder had been commit- and went around from one jeweler's to he found a watch- he timeplece as 1 put a new mainspring g the murder. another until on the day T the alibi was b oner finally ma is not lop- )gether.. Many a nd in splendid man who is a fine athlet physical healt® would be amazed to find how unevenly he is made up if he should test measuring tape. arm or one leg is I er than shoulder higher of a Either on the other, one other, or still more frequently, the eyew are not the same or placed in the head in exactly the same way. People have been identified by the fact that the pupil of one eye was larger than that of the other. The nose is very seldom exactly straight, but swerves a little to the right or left, though the defect is not noticeadle to the ordinary observer. Above all, a man who is starting out on a criminal career should never go to a dentist. The filling of the teeth is a sure record, and even if the criminal has all his teeth pulled his false teeth will be as sure a means of identifis cation.—New York Press.