. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . Childrens School YardThe Pittsburgh Playground Association supported in idleness by the charities of good-natured people. He should be made to earn hisliving. But it is different with people who sufferfrom disease or other misfortunes. To help insuch cases is a work of humanity. The state must undertake to provide for thepoor, weak, and sick w^ho are not supported byprivate charity. Children left without their par-ents must be placed in homes where they will PUBLIC CHARITIES 07 be given care and education. Tliose who becomeinsane must be p
. The essential facts of Oklahoma history and civics . Childrens School YardThe Pittsburgh Playground Association supported in idleness by the charities of good-natured people. He should be made to earn hisliving. But it is different with people who sufferfrom disease or other misfortunes. To help insuch cases is a work of humanity. The state must undertake to provide for thepoor, weak, and sick w^ho are not supported byprivate charity. Children left without their par-ents must be placed in homes where they will PUBLIC CHARITIES 07 be given care and education. Tliose who becomeinsane must be placed in asylums, the sick inhospitals, the aged poor in homes provided forthem. Many institutions of this kind are sup-. HospiTAL, Seattle, Washington ported by private charity, especially hospitalsand orphan asylums. The insane are usualtytaken care of by the state. How to care for the poor is not an easy prob-lem. Many of those who most deserve assistanceare too modest or too proud to ask for it. Theywill perhaps rather die than go to a poor-house,although there is no disgrace in poverty when itis a pure misfortune. The aid given to the poor 68 CIVIL GOVERNMENT is often given in public houses and on farms,where all the indigent persons who are dependentupon the community are gathered together. Byhelping about the house, and by working on thefarm, they are made to assist in earning theirown living. Another method is called out-doorrelief. This refers to the distribution of fuel,clothing, and food among the poor. If this sys-tem is not managed wisely, it will make paupersof many people. Those weak in character andwith little self-respect will prefer not to work,but to rely upon the town or city to provi
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