kindergartner,
and an expert financier; but she may be none of these things and still
be a very good friendly visitor. When legal complications arise, she
will go to some friend who is a lawyer; when the children get into
trouble, she will consult a teacher, or an agent of the children's aid
society, and, in the same way, the matter of employment will send her
to a business man, or some one who can advise her, when her own store
of experience is too scant. The poor man often has a mean opinion of
the judgment of "charitable ladies," and this opinion has not always
been without a degree of justification; but the visitor who {43} takes
the trouble to go on Sunday and get acquainted with the men folk, or
makes occasion for them to come to her house from time to time, who
proves herself, moreover, not without resource or common sense as
emergencies arise, will soon overcome this prejudice and become the
friend of every member of the family.

Collateral Readings: "The Settlement and Municipal Reform," James B.
Reynolds in Proceedings of Twenty-third National Conference of
Charities, pp. 138 _sq_. "Benevolent Features of Trades-Unions," John
D. Flannigan in the same, pp. 154 _sq_. "The Ethical Basis of
Municipal Corruption," Miss Jane Addams in "International Journal of
Ethics," for April, 1898. "The Workers," Walter A. Wyckoff. "Working
People and their Employers," Washington Gladden. "Problem of the
Unemployed," Hobson. "The Unemployed," Geoffrey Drage. "Korbey's
Fortune," William T. Elsing in "Scribner's," Vol. XVI, pp. 590 _sq_.

[1] "Rich and Poor," p. 211.

[2] pp. 141 _sq_.

[3] "Charities Record," Baltimore, Vol. I, No. 6.

[4] "Rich and Poor," pp. 138 _sq_.

[5] pp. 242 _sq_.

[6] See Warner's "American Charities," pp. 177 _sq_.

[7] George Eliot in "Daniel Deronda."

[8] pp. 22 _sq_.

[9] "Charities Review," Vol. II, p. 54.

[10] p. 11.

[11] Thirteenth Report of Boston Associated Charities, p. 42.

[12] See "Charities Review," Vol. VI, pp. 402 _sq_.

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CHAPTER III

THE BREADWINNER AT HOME

We have considered the breadwinner as worker, neighbor, and citizen; we
now turn to the breadwinner as husband and father. It has been said
that the home is not only the true unit of society, but that it is the
charitable unit as well, and that when we deal with anything less than
a whole family, we deal with fractions. Much of our charitable work is
still fractional. It not i