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Show UP AGAINST IT BOTH WAYS Discharged Hospital Patient Surely a Victim of Hard Luck, as He Explained It. A middle-aged Polish man appeared ono morning recently at ono of Detroit's De-troit's social settlement houses. To tho young woman on duty In tho of-flee of-flee ho told n story of illness and ot failuro to find satisfactory worksinco his dismissal from tho hospital a few weoks before ending the recital by saying that ho wished to be sent to the poor house. "Rut won't you lot mo help you find work?" asked tho girl. "What did you do beforo you woro ill?" "Why, lady, I worked for a tailor an' I ran do goose. Rut such a job is too hard for mo now." "Woll, wouldn't it bo better to earn oven part of your living and let som? ono help you a llttlo than to give up ontlroly? Why, I'd rather pull basting bast-ing threads than to do nothing!" "Rut, yo see, lady, yousp don't undor-otnnd. undor-otnnd. It's JuBt llko this, yo sco. I'm too weak for do strong work an' I'm too strong for do weak work an' thero yo aro." Now what would your answor bo to such a concluslvo argument as that? |