Show POVERTYS COMPENSATIONS Poverty has its compensations We have seen one who poses as Husos model of humble poverty do so in a dress suit with patent leather shoes dazzling diamonds and a broad expanse ex-panse of shirtfront that Hugos essay could have been written on with a piece of charcoal We hcve seen a selfdesicnated personification per-sonification of honest poverty indulge in-dulge in luxuries that the actual poor would gaze upon agape Born with a silver spoon In his mouth raised on the fat of the land an annual eater of fatted calves a constant olliceholder of one sort or another with a salary of many thousands a year and the richest rich-est father In the land one has been seen to tan himself upon a laundried front and say Behold me I am the man that Hugo meant But honest poverty is not so arranged ar-ranged It has no explanations to make no vindication to offer And it is immune from blackmailers and secure se-cure from the stratagems of peephole policemen I may have its discomforts and its tribulations but it has its compensations com-pensations as well I |