Salt Lake Herald | 1895-02-24 | Page 15 | Troubles in a Tenement Street

TROUBLES IV A TCXEMEXT STREET Improvidence ors sad havoc with the family exchequer and the havoc cruelly enough Js as great when caused by Inculpable culpable ignorance as by wanton Cxtrav ganco Wasteful cooking buying on in tallmcnti mortgaging furniture at ex rbitant rates and other equally dteas rous practices are far too common When John Gorman of No 40 died hiS wife received a 0 death benefit She indulged in-dulged in the luxury of a onehundred andtendollar funeral and within a andtendolar funerl witi year was i want Overproduction of children la another source of trouble Whether the children live or whether they die they are about equally expensive The more desperate he family circumstances the faster lie children come And yet nature seems to smile on this form of improvidence in the long run Children are transformed to breadwinners by time Thus tho family dragged down at first by Its surplus of children is often exalted by this very thing at the end Comfortable old ago comes quito as often to the heads of the l arge families as to the childless couples since tlC latter have no breadwinners to call on when they themselves cease to win bread The Forum