satisfactory that
they have now been employed a year, and their pay increased." [11]

A few cautions are necessary. The charities of a large city often
attract from the country those for whom there is no economic place.
Our immigration laws have allowed many to come to America for whom
there is no place, and charity has kept them alive here, knowing the
while that they are forcing down the standard of living among our poor,
and complicating the problem incalculably at every turn. But, as
concerns interstate emigration, and the migration from country to city,
charity should not be so helpless. It is within our power to refuse,
by charitable aid, to settle the man who cannot settle himself in a
community where he does not belong. It is often doing other workers a
wrong to establish him and find work for him where he has no claim.
The attractions of a large city are great enough without adding {41}
any such artificial help to overcrowding. Our effort, on the contrary,
should be to get back into country life those families that are found
to be really fitted for it. Advertise in country papers, interest
friends in the country in finding places for families, and do not fail
to keep up communication either by letter or occasional visits with
families so placed.[12]

One more caution. It helps a man to know that some one cares and will
help him to find work; but it cripples him to let him feel that he can
sit idle and let his friend do all the searching and worrying. "Send a
man to find work, and go with him to a special place; but never go from
place to place seeking it for him." Develop his resources, show an
interest in all his efforts, and encourage him to renewed effort.

It has been claimed that only men and men of business experience can be
successful friendly visitors where the head of the family is concerned;
that, in matters of employment especially, a woman visitor is not
capable of giving sound advice. It is undoubtedly true {42} that such
work could be better done if more men, instead of contenting themselves
with service on charitable boards, would take the trouble to become
personally acquainted with a few poor families. This would be better
for the boards and better for the men that are charitable trustees.
But the woman visitor need not despair. It is true that she could do
her work better, as will appear in this book, if she were in her own
person a lawyer, a sanitary engineer, a trained cook, a