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Show H VIENNA NI ! LIES POVERTY People Along Street Pick Up Everything; Clothes of Ancient An-cient Style Worn (By International News Service) VIENNA, Sept. 11 There is one j tell-tale sign of the pitiful poverty I that exists beneath the gay eneer of Vienna as It strives to maintain its 1 swagger of before the war. It is the habit the people have ( 1 formed of picking up everything they I come upon In the streets. I To the casnal oboerver. Vienna Is i just IS gay as in the old days. Its) shop windows are filled with the ad-, mlrable goods which drew buyers , from all parts of Europe years ago. and Its streetj arc as crowded as InJ doys gone by Hut at a second glance old and young, shabby and well-dressed well-dressed will be seen to stop and pick! J up some bit from the sidewalk or I street, slip It furtively into a pocket and hurry on. GRODNO KJEPT LEAN Sometimes It Is the feeblo old man) snatching the butt of a cigar or slgar-, ette, but not always so. Fully as often' a Well-dressed woman will stoop to seise a tiny bit of wood a mere chip j and thrust it Into her pocket. A fallen fall-en twig from one of the trees on the, i shaded boulevards llejq upon the, 'ground but for a few seconds and any , bit of metal Is salvaged by the evor-! evor-! stooping pedestrians who find som" ! value In almost anything? thai is drop-pod drop-pod on the streeta. Not a scrap of paper escapes attention and to see tlx picking up process repeated D dozen' times iii .i rew blocks tells only too i plainly that there Is dire need beneath, I the surface of Vienna which will al-; i ways be polished and as . arefres 1 the resoluie people can make believe I In the railroad v.irtU where once the poor swarmed RStherinS lumps of, coal from passing trains women and children search for bits of paper ! thrown frorn passenger i;ars Even an orange peel does not ko to waste. ; Never before were the tracks so clean i of e r . bit Of wood and iron and rcf-1 use from trains One train, .stopping Just outside the, j station, was surrounded hv the usual' Warms of children, frail and eager. DRJE86 OFOLDEN !s A passenger leaning tossed a bar1 of chocolate toward a little girl There wad i he UNual frantic scramble but1 'the litfl. girl secured the prize she IIKII.II'lJfU 11. Mill THU mr i,is niriw of a child craving for candy but With the greatest care. The tin foil Inside the wrapper WSS folded with great, pains and placed inside hed arCSS. II 1 was more precious to the candy famished fam-ished child than the chocolate. 'Ihei outer wrapper too. she folded bn It1 fell from the pocket Of her ragged; little apron. ' At once there was a scramble as violent as for the choc-j olate Itself, and into the uocket of tbi victor went the covered bit of crump-1 led paper. It would help to serve as, fuel, he said, his sister and mother also were hunting bits of Btioks and, paper for there was no other fuel to! be had. There is a hint of the underlying poverty too, in the crowds that throng i the streets. There are women, linmls-i Itakably of the higher class, wearing' the leg o" mutton sleeves of the nine jties. The material costlv without a 'question, looks strangely out of place 'In this day of different Styles. And In the city which was always a formidable formid-able rival of Paris, there are bats Which adorn the TTeautles of :i de. ade I ago. It I:-, as though the likenesses ! In an old family album had stepped .forth Into the streets where one expects ex-pects to find the last word In fashions. The clothes have been resurrected from attics and ragbags bv rich and! poor alike for there is nothing to bo had toda) When nionev will buy noj meat, no bread but the blackest and coarsest, adulterated to the utmost point of edibility, there s little choice. |