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Title: Beauty for ashes
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: Bacon, Albion Fellows, 1865-1933
Subjects: Working class Tenement houses Poor
Publisher: New York, Dodd, Mead and company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: The Library of Congress

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lend a strong hand to theweak and discouraged. At the end of our meetings, as we sat around thelibrary fire, the talk drifted from the special cases to the problems of the day. It was Inspiring to seethe big strong way in which these men handled them. 68 BEAUTY FOR ASHES with a simple directness that told the secret of theirsuccess in business. It was great to hear them, fine, high-souled, big-hearted men; to see the chivalry that made them flareout in anger against wrongs to the women and chil-dren, or softened them to tender pity of the weakand unfortunate. Years afterward, they stood by me in the council,in the city hall, in meetings of business organisations,and in the legislature. And every one could be de-pended upon. What evenings those were! It was great to beone of such a circle. No other evenings, merely so-cial, left such a sense of satisfaction. After all had gone, we turned to the glowing em-bers, with a deeper glow in our hearts, and no needfor words. It was worth while!
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0) <D N3 c3 c3 s o CHAPTER IV BEAUTY FOR ASHES Through the worst streets of our city there passedto-day the most welcome visitor who can enter anyof its homes, in time of trouble. A woman near forty,with a happy light in her clear grey eyes, a cheerysmile, and fresh colour in her cheeks — it is our Vis-iting Nurse, Miss Lydia Metz. I know she went to-day, for she has gone everyday for fifteen years, with brief holidays. Even onSundays, when she is not expected to work, she oftengoes from choice. Typhoid cases need her, babieschoose Sundays as a day of advent, so that some-times it is her busiest day. It was about fifteen years ago that some of us girls who had started the first training schoolfor nurses in our city, took upon ourselves the sup-port of a visiting nurse, and the supervision of herwork. It was only by the grace of their love for meand by virtue of membership dues that I belonged to the circle, for that was in my shadow days of illness,when their enthusiasm was beyond

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