Show THE TilE POO ARE fOT fORTUNATE Writer Says Touches Them Not at All BY ISRAEL ZA-GWI ZA ZANGWILL L. L The only people leople who seem to escape the time malady of or the century are arc the tho them poor poo Tho Thu touches not however l' l great their o suffering It Itis Itis is always individual The privileges of poverty arc aro arc I fear Insufficiently appreciated In in these thee grasping times It Is not nut the taxes that the poor man is exempt fro from There is a Go much more moro p painful t tax x Sn I income than tho the pecuniary pecuniary pecuniary-It It Is ts the tho ho thought of thos who are aio w worsted worsted- in fit th thu struggle for lor bare c existence Vac Tae Yet those who achieve tho the bare existence who wilo starve not neither shiver have havo surely enviable compensations Not theirs the distressful wearying problems of sociology Far from feeling feeling feel teel- ing any for tor fellow fellow- beings they do no not even lulU thelt own personal duty to society soe the tho bree breeding ln of babies in back bacic streets They havo no sympathies with the thc troubles of ot any other class they eat cat their hard crust and drink their bitter beer without a u. t thought ought of the tho dyspepsia eta sia of or the out diner mil and their appetite is not dulled by an any suspicion lon of heart heart- tick sickness ness in good society Starvation other than physical they U do not understand ml 11 spiritual troubles troubles trou trou- bles are Tho TIme state of tho the rich docs does not sIva give thorn them sleepless nights nights- nl they have no rio yearnings to reform them or amend their conditions The terrible overcrowding or of tho the upper upper upper up up- per classes on 01 staircases wakes not a pang they arc are untouched by tho sufferings of ot insufficiently clad dall I ladles Indies in draughty opera boxes and I royal chambers ante and tho the grievances ances of old men novo o them not Not theirs to ponder sorrowfully fully over the lost souls soula of politicians or the thc I degeneration D rg rs They live o t an and h k soc soc-ct the tIme bU burden tl do donot not bear bear bel anyo but ut t r own |