92 Civic Helpfulness 



good son and brother, so that it was not surprising 

 that he made a good policeman. 



I have not dwelt on the work of the State chari 

 table institutions, or of those who are paid to do 

 charitable work as officers and otherwise. But it is 

 bare justice to point out that the great majority of 

 those thus paid have gone into the work, not for the 

 sake of the money, but for the sake of the work itself, 

 though, being dependent . upon their own exertions 

 for a livelihood, they are obliged to receive some 

 recompense for their services. 



There is one class of public servants, however, not 

 employed directly as philanthropic agents, whose 

 work, nevertheless, is as truly philanthropic in char 

 acter as that of any man or woman existing. I al 

 lude to the public-school teachers whose schools lie 

 in the poorer quarters of the city. In dealing with 

 any body of men and women general statements 

 must be made cautiously, and it must always be un 

 derstood that there are numerous exceptions. Speak 

 ing generally, however, the women teachers I men 

 tion these because they are more numerous than 

 the men who carry on their work in the poorer 

 districts of the great cities form as high-principled 

 and useful a body of citizens as is to be found in the 

 entire community, and render an amount of service 

 which can hardly be paralleled by that of any other 

 equal number of men or women. Most women who 



