Show the charitable poor that the poor are good to one another is the silent testimony of the race of beggars many of the cross streets up town through which throngs of working people pass to and from work says the new york sun are infested with beggars in the early morning and evening hours and to aa incredible extent these birds of prey who are for the most part bloated ragged women whose tatters are redolent of whisky place themselves close to the stoop of some respectable dwelling house and crouching against the rail hold out a grimy hand which suggests rather than asks a gift young girls going to their woric are moved to compassion and men feel a superstitious repugnance to passing an old woman in want and so these sodden hopeless waife waifs of humanity find it profitable to haunt the places through which the tide of daily labor ebbs and flows most swiftly in the matter of charity the practical difference seems to be that the rich subscribe to charitable societies the poor give to those poorer than themselves but the poor give from their poverty |