Show THE ANNALS OF THE POOR Philadelphia Record Dr Herman L During superintendent i dent of the Philadelphia city mission ml ion has for many years ears devoted his life liCe to the poor Dr During is the tile Inventor of the pretzel test for street beggars When a street beggar pleads starvation you ou buy him a big German pretzel at atthe atthe atthe the nearest stand If It he eats the pret pretzel pretzel pretzel zel he is honest if It he refuses it he is Ie isa Iea isa a fraud Dr During in his hie work among tho the poor has learned miny odd quaint things that he lie relates superbly for Cor he heIs heIs heis Is a born storyteller In an address at Bala apropos of or the hard rough lives of or the children of the poor I he related a dialogue between two little girls in Rum alley aile 9 Maggie ye e ever kissed asked the first tot Ony In me life wot I 1 kin re remember remember remember member said the second When I Uz In de hospital wid u a broken broten arm one o 0 do dc lady ma maan m man man an I blushed like a child |