So we took a couple of rooms in a tenement, and held on. And from
this small beginning has grown the King's Daughters' settlement,
which to-day occupies two houses at 48 and 50 Henry Street, doing
exactly the same kind of work as when they began in the next block.
The flowers were and are the open sesame to every home. They wrere
laughed at by some at the start; but that was because they did not
know. They are not needed now to open doors; the little cross is
known for a friend wherever it goes.
We sometimes hear it said, and it is true, that the poor are more
charitable among themselves than the outside world is to them.
It is because they know the want; and it only goes to prove that
human nature is at bottom good, not bad. In real straits it comes
out strongest. So, if you can only make the others see, will they
do. The trouble is, they do not know, and some of us seem to have
cotton in our ears: we are a little hard of hearing. Yet, whenever
we put it to the test, up-town rang true. I remember the widow
with three or four little ones who had to be wheeled if she were to
be able to get about as the doctor insisted.
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