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Show I WHEN A BIG FAMILY IS HUNGRY. A report was made to The Standard this morning that a family of ! six living in a tent on the outskirts cf the city was in a deplorable state of poverty. We had about reached the conclusion there was no extreme cases of penury in Ogden. The people have been so prosperous during the past four years, we thought hunge- had been driven out, but even in good times misfortune pursues a percentage of the people. Accidents, ill-health, unlooked for reverses, death all conspire at times to drag down families. The big family of a poor man is always in danger of storm clouds descending on the home. Sickness may come and, with the wiping out of the revenue for a short time, hunger may step in. It is then that we all owe a duty, which is to extend a helping hand. More and more people are learning that they are interdependent, and gradually human sympathy is expanding so as to banish what Bobby Bums, that poet philosopher, termed man's inhumanity to man. |