"Said a wealthy tax-payer to me recently, as he paid me his monthly
kindergarten subscription: 'Mrs. Cooper, this work among the
children is the best work that can be done. I give you this aid
most gladly. I consider it an investment for my children. I would
rather give five dollars a month now to educate these children than
to have my own taxed ten times that amount by and by to sustain
prisons and penitentiaries.'"--_Sarah B. Cooper, before the
National Conference of Charities and Correction._