i8o OBSERVATIONS OF A RANCHWOMAN 



and not the minority, that lay by for hard 

 times, ever-recurring strikes, and so forth. 

 When the working man is saving and thrifty, 

 his aims, generally speaking, are material ; 

 money, together with the gaudy spending 

 thereof, his engrossing object. It is not from 

 his class that the great men of American his- 

 tory have sprung speaking again generally. 

 During a period of many months I was 

 served faithfully and competently by an 

 intelligent Irish- American woman of the re- 

 spectable tenement-house class. She talked 

 with me freely concerning the manner of life 

 prevalent among the families of working men. 

 Some of her disclosures provided not a little 

 food for thought. That many were receiving 

 relief who were not merely unworthy, but 

 were fully able to take care of themselves, 

 goes without saying, and also that it was not 

 the Charity Organization which was making 

 these blunders, but the Churches. My in- 

 formant was temporarily supporting her sister 

 and child on the wages she received from me, 

 yet incidental remarks revealed that their 

 table was liberally supplied with 'the best/ 

 with beer, of course, in plenty. She one day 



