pared to, 154-155.
Dress and manners, taste in, 68.
Duplication of relief, 165.

Edgeworth, Miss, 2.
Education, 80-84, 92, 137-138.
Educational classes, 137.
Eliot, George, 2, 10, 34.
Eliot, Rev. Samuel A., 105.
Employees, 28-41.
Employer, as source of relief, 150; caution in making inquiries of, 189.
Employment, 28-41; fluctuating, 35; equalization of, 35-36, cautions
in finding, 40-41, 201-202; facts needed in finding, 186-188.
Exceptional cases, 7.
Exercise, outdoor, 98-99, 132.
Experience, need of, in relief work, 163-164.

Facts, necessary in relief, 156-157; in treatment, 186-188.
Family, the, head of, 17-19, 44-57; essential elements of, 45-46;
breaking up, 54-57; over-visiting, 184; brief biography
of heads of, 188.
Family budgets, 125.
Financial history of family, facts in, 188.
Fluctuating work, 35.
Food, buying and preparing, 65-67; adulteration of, 113.
Forms of relief, 160-162.
Fraternal societies, 122-123; as a source of relief, 150.
Fresh air charities, 78-79.
Fresh air, prejudice against, 97-98.
Friendly visiting, and social service, 5; need of, 13; introduction
to, 13; qualifications for, 14; and economic problems,
29; and employment, 36-41; men and women in, 41-43;
and household economy, 65-69; and school-teachers, 79;
and home libraries, 87; and the children, 91-93; and
sanitation, 97-101; and sickness, 101-106; and thrift, 111; and
savings, 124; and chattel mortgages, 116; and recreations,
129; and relief, 142-145, 183; and relief agencies, 164-165;
and churches, 177-178; what it is not, 180; results of, 181;
principles of, 182-195; patience in, 182-183; number of families
in, 182; by correspondence, 184-185; mutual relations in, 185;
and charity organization societies, 187-189; and others charitably
interested, 192; best done alone, 193; distinguished from
district visiting, 193-194; illustrations of continuous, 197-215.
Fuel, 68-69; saving for, 134.
Funerals, 119-121.

Games, 130-131.
Godkin, E. L., 21.
Gymnasiums, 132.

Health, 95-106; saving at expense of, 110.
Hill, Miss Octavia, 35, 128, 181.
Home, the, the unit of society, 44; relief should be given in, 145-146.
Home libraries, 86-87, 197-198.
Hospital care, 101; prejudice against, 101-103.
Howells, W. D., 70.
Humor, sense of, necessary in charity, 129.

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