Jewett, Sarah Orne, 3.
Juvenile offenders, 85, 88-89.
Kelley, Mrs. Florence, 82.
Kindergartens, 79; first supported by churches, 175-176.
Krohn, Professor William O., 83.
Landlords who sub-let, 24; as creditors, 162; caution concerning
inquiries of, 189.
Laws for protection of children, 91.
Lectures, free, 137.
Legal extortions, 23.
Libraries, free, 133.
Loan companies, 115-118; philanthropic, 117; building and, 123.
Loan exhibitions, 133-135.
Loans, 161.
Loch, C. S., 125.
Lowell, Mrs. Josephine Shaw, 54, 73, 118, 157-159.
Man of the family, often overlooked, 17; should apply for relief, 145.
Manual training, 92.
Married vagabonds, 47-57, 93, 146, 158, 164, 202-215.
Mason, Miss, 90.
Materialism of the charitable, 141, 171.
Medical service, cheap grade of, 100.
Men as friendly visitors, 41.
Migration of invalids, 105.
Money, relief in, 161.
Mothers' meetings, 74-75.
Municipal reform, 6, 21.
Music, 135-137.
Negro prejudice against hospitals, 102-103.
Neighborhood standard, and relief-giving, 163-164; and plans
for permanent improvement, 191.
Neighbors, 24-25, 27; as a source of relief, 150; effects of relief
upon, 163, 190; influence of good, 215-218.
Newspaper appeals for individual cases of need, 147, 206.
Non-support laws, 53.
Novels, poverty in, 2; sociological, 3.
Odd jobs, 36.
Open spaces, 96.
Outdoor relief, public, 151-152.
Outings, 78-79, 131.
Over-visited families, 184.
Parasites, 11.
Partnership, with the poor in relief, 159; in plans for their
welfare, 190.
Patent medicines, 100, 110.
Patronage, 10, 75.
Pauper burial, 118-119.
Pauperism not poverty, 11.
Pawning, 118.
Peabody, Professor F. G., 127.
Peabody, George, 133.
Pensions, for widows with children, 74; continued after need
has ceased, 155; to supplement natural resources, 162.
Physical defects as a cause of unemployment, 38; as a cause
of juvenile delinquency, 83-85.
Physical history of family, facts in, 187.
Pickton, Miss, 173.
Pictures, lending, 133-135.
Placing-out dependent children, 90.
Plans for relief, 154-157; changed with changing conditions, 155;
based on facts, 155-156; for permanent improvement, 189-192.
Pleasures the measure of a man, 129.
Pledges, temperance, 61.
Policemen as distributors of relief, 19.
Political corruption, 21-23; and public relief, 151.
Poor, the, not a social class, 10-12; charity of, 25-27; treated
as dependent animals, 125; partnership with, in plans of
relief, 159-160.
Poverty, phases in our treatment of, 5; cure of, 29; problems of
not so simple as they seem, 140.
Principles of relief-giving, 145-162.
Probation system for juvenile offenders, 85-86.
Protection of children from cruelty and immorality, 89-90;
societies for, 89; laws for, 91.
Provident poor, 111.
Public distributions of relief, 147.
Publicity in charity, demoralization of, 146-148.
Putnam, Mrs. James, 76.
Quack doctors, 100.
Reading, 133; of children, 86-87.
Recreation, 127-139.
References, lack of, as a cause of unemployment, 37.
Relatives as a source of relief, 149-150.
Relief, policemen as distributors of, 19; of married vagabond's
family, 50-54; of drunkard's family, 61; of children, 76-77;
and hospital care, 102; of thriftless families, 112; and
recreation, 138-139; a valuable tool, 140-141; friendly visitors as
dispensers of, 142-145; six principles of, 145-162; with a future,
153-154; societies for, 153; interim, 154; compared with
doctoring, 154-155; with a plan, 155-157; adequate, 157-159; in
work, 160; in kind, 161; duplication of, 165; church, 167-174;
as a gospel agency, 171-173; with conditions, 190.
Relief in work, 160.
Relief societies, 153.
Rent, 156, 162.
Richardson, 2.
Saloon, the, 57, 128, 133.
Sanitation, improved, 96.
Saving, 35, 111, 119-125; unthrifty forms of, 110-111; savings
banks, 118-119, 123; beginnings of, 119; for burial, 119-121;
for sickness, 122; stamp, 123-124; collections, 124; for fuel, 124.
School-teachers, 79-80
Scott, 2.
Seasonal occupations, 36.
Self-help, resources for, 190.
Self-sustaining families, 193.
Sentimental charity, 4.
Settlements, 5, 8, 108.
Shaftesbury, Lord, 10.
Sham homes, 46.
Sick benefits, 122.
Sickness, as a cause of poverty, 95-96; outside hospitals, 103-104;
facts needed in helping, 186-188.
Smith, Miss Frances, 181.
Smith, Miss Zilpha D., 36, 58, 79, 142.
Social classes, 10-12.
Social history of family, facts needed in, 187.
Social service, 5.
Soup kitchens, 148-149.
Sources of relief, natural, 149-150; relief societies, 150; public
outdoor relief, 151; multiplication of, 152-153.
Spasmodic charity, 191,
Spencer, Mrs. Anna Garlin, 81.
Spending, 111, 112, 125,
Stamp savings, 123-124.
Strikes, 31-32.
Study, supplementary to experience, 15; of charity in theological
seminaries, 178.
Suggestion, power of, 18, 71-72.
Suggestions about visiting not all applicable to one family, 179.
Summer visiting, 185.
Sunday-schools, multiplication of, 87-88, 168, 177.
Sympathy and sentimentality, 71.