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travel as cheaply as possible, she look a slow train, Lei us say, on a 

 Monday evening. She reached her destination late on Wednesday 

 afternoon, very much exhausted and very ill. Although almost six feet 

 tall, she weighed, before going, just ninety-seven pounds. She had the 

 lustrous eyes and the pink Hush associated with consumption; her pale 

 face was suffused with a cold, clammy sweat; and she had the cruel 

 cough, which wracked her chest and would not let her rest. The first 

 thing she did was to go to a home for young women, where she asked 

 to stay over night, so that in the morning she could go to the sani- 

 tarium where her stay had been arranged for. They would not take 

 her in. It was their rule to refuse consumptives, even for a night; 

 and with the name of the 'Poor Nazarene' over their door, they turned 

 her away. 



The reader, if he have read only this paper, will now see that there 

 was no occasion for this. We might dilate upon the spirit of Christli- 

 ness, to which this institution would ostensibly lay claim, and through 

 which spirit this very sick traveler might surely have been given shelter 

 until the morning at least. But upon a purely practical basis, there is 

 no reason why, with elementary knowledge and common sense, such as 

 those controlling such an institution should have, this sick one could 

 not have been provided for without in the least jeopardizing the health 

 of any other person. The progress of civilization is never furthered, 

 indeed it is most horribly retarded, whenever the stigma of inhumanity 

 is fixed upon the fair countenance of religion. 



vol. lxv. — 20. 



