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Show WEAM-IIY 1'EOTI.K. SOME Or THE KKiroSS WHY TIIEY AKK TO KB 1'ITJ EI), l'reiuently I have expressed mv pity for rich people. Jly pity wa"s reiu-jTed lost night when a gentleman gentle-man said: "My wife and our children chil-dren are to go auroad next week."' "You've only just got back from Europe," I said, by way of surprise and Interrogation. "V-, but my wife Is just killing herself. Every morning, be&rts jvb sit down to breakfast, Ihure are frjo. five, to a dozen men and women at I the h.-e, telling iltiful stories of rent overdue, of hunger and what cot. My irifj cannot turn them away with 'no; she has neither! streuntli nortinietoiurtlgateeach ' case, and she usually gives them what they want. Hut s!je! knows that i-dch giving i bad. She '. is so hemmed In by this circle of , lieggars that she must go to Euro)e. , It's pretty hard,'' he added.with a I sigh; 'we're beeu serrated but lit- ' tie since we were married; but I I don't see any other way but to close ; thefjouse,and for them to goto Dres-1 den and for me to go boarding." I wanted to tell the generous man , that if he and Mrs. Upeuhaud ' would send the mendicants to me I would Investigate and reiwrt to ' them; that I could save them scv- j eral thousand dollars a year and the ' necessity of going over the ocean to . escape the cry of povery,' but I ! thought it would seem ililit-rtineiit, j and I desisted. Hut Mr. and Mr?. I Opeuhaud ought to have strength of j will as well as generosity of heart, j I kuow that such generous and un-1 wise raooj.Je do more to promote po v- erty Ihau nuioy a secretary of some associated chant'es can do to cure , poverty. O.lcafio Advance. |
