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Show WOULDN'T STAND FOR REBUKE! Beggar Woman Had Her Own Point of I View Concerning "Business" She ,( Was Engaged In. I Secretary Lawson Purdy of the Charity Organization society said at a dinner In New York: ' "Professional beggars are a self-righteous self-righteous crew. What I mean Is that they regard their trade the same as you and I regard honest work. One winter afternoon I came on a beggar woman I knew of old. She was begging beg-ging in a bitter wind on. a corner, and three little children in calico rags shivered shiv-ered at her side. "'You Jane,' I said reproachfully. 'You begging ! And those three little ones ! They aren't really yours at all I" " 'Well, damitall,' said the beggar woman. T wouldn't have to beg so hard If they were really mine, for then I wouldn't be forking over a dol lar a day to hire them.' " Los Angeles Times. I |