| Show MISERY IN LONDON some of tile who spend their nights in street and gutter glitter when they told lire im fit at the railway station that the last train to tile the sil suburb blit bi where I 1 lived had Z gone one I 1 determined determine 1 mindful minda ill of the pleasa pleasures res of night wandering in in paris to boseck seek shelter in no 1 hotel but to see sec what sights the lie streets of the sleeping city plight might afi ord it lay in the gutter mattel of that narrow street there where any passing parsing cab or I 1 yonder fruit laden dray might without blame to the driver have c rushed crushed its life out it was a little child so light ill in my hand as I 1 picked it up that for 1 a l moment I 1 wondered whether indeed it it learn edat wa was s a living thing 0 had aad so early an all a age ac c to and be still it seemed so for it made no cry not an all abandoned babe moreover for there coiled up asleep in tile doorway ly lay its mother the child ch ildvad had dropped from her 1 relaxing 7 arms and had rolled into tile the hennell in the straud strand now vacant of all traffic save of the w walking alk in lepers of the street insolent grown since a 1 piqued police curtails not their so 40 I 1 repulsive agg aggression re our oar new mist just I 1 ructions ilet ions bid its beavo them alone sa said i t 1 i 1 constable to me and N very cry glad w we are arc to bo be relieved of the trouble of them about there is ia that langer danger in applying the rebuke of talleyrand that lie he to whom you forbid over zeal will sink into inaction in ili every door way of the side streets of the thoroughfare 0 afar J single has taken refuge misery in company is here i in I 1 trafalgar flaval ir square A curious si sight lit indeed this his finest site as I 1 then saw it it was ill all dark with a couchant cou cliant mob of homeless vara vagabonds 0 bonds ta taking king t their ret rest on the stones not all lit in ras rags heie much black coated misery was there such stich was he who presently tells me lie he was a city clerk and who to judge from his tongue and manner ma may y once have d done one cle clerkly akly work his pillow is a daily telegraph chii bedding affords a curious study mo mot most t have such furniture to their resting 4 places and its as I 1 walk around I 1 taka notice what whal papers are arc most in use use the echo pil pillows loiis most of those who ire arc in rags black coated misery takes its bed fittings from the lie Conserva trip e press one is is 1 1 bt arving and alid homeless outcast but one respects the institutions of ones country four hun hundred dreI sleepers s men ind and women promise promiscuously side by side I 1 count coant in the shadows of tile the finest hotels in tile woid high 11 up on his big column stands orar over all one who spoke once of england lind and her expectation That tour four hundred men and women ind and their children should thus be hung flung 0 on oil the pavement st starving arvin abandoned in the yen varv heart hc art and center of the luxury of the world who has balled in his duty far off gleams the light liblit hi high k up that tells us that the people of england tire sire even now being cared for her Maje commons are at work and provision is being made for the commonwealth it is a sorry beacon seen from a sorry sea back to covent garden where moro more misery is to bo be seen no sleepers hei bel c but men standing shivering under arches a mother yonder M munching Uli ching frome 41 garbage picked from the street hunger in the center of the plethora of london but one lives by con contrast trait and society loves the antithesis A penny sir for a cup of coffee its terribly cold how often do I 1 hoar hear those these words as I 1 pass a new open cof fee house filled with prosperous trial mir ket ketman rilen can one get soup anywhere here no sir coffee cocoa and ginger iner i 14 n beer are there no soup kitchens open now they don have none save in the winter pal vail gazette |
