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Show u PEST8 OF CITY STREETS. Beggars With Sham Afflictions Are Nothing New. Hcggars who feign diseases nro no new thing In tho streets of London They existed In Charles IPs tlmo, only then tho beggar was called n "rufllor," a "huff" or a "ehabbaroon." If ho was deaf nnd dumb ho was called n "dum merer." Tho woman who sung hyranf and led borrowed children by the hnn' vaif called a "clapperdozen." Vngranry Is no now thing, though It prnctlci" did not exist In mediaeval times. 1 was when the cities ceased to bo c i flood within their own walla, nnd 1 nb before the dayg. of policemen, that th j.aSplo get boyond tho control of the aldcimon and. their ofllcers nnd vag rnncy became n. regular profession Tho first English law against beggai wcb irnde by Henry VIII, who gtvt llfonnos to beg to' tt.old nnd Impo lent nnd ordered "wt-nil olner beg 7ar should bo wirpped and sent bad 'o their ptflshos. |
