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Show oo WITH THE POOR OF A BIG CITY. Seeking to learn the condition of the unemploed In Boston, the mayor of that city spent Wednesday night in cognlto at Wayfarers' lodge, where the city shelters the homeless and feeds them in Ihe morning. Returning next day to his office, the mayor, in tattered and faded hat, experienced ex-perienced difficulty In gaining entrance, en-trance, until his secretary recognized him. The mayor was routed out of his municipal mu-nicipal bed at 5 o'clock In the morning morn-ing and required to chop wood for four hours when he was given his breakfast break-fast of oatmeal, bread and coffee. An experience of this kind might do all of us good. In that It should make us realize the hardships of poverty and the misfortunes of those who aro down and out. When the misery of the proof is nothing more to us than a recital and the actual worry and discomfort Is not felt or understood, we may fall to give that human sympathy which does not fall short of doing our full part in trying to drive back the wolf or hunger hun-ger seen around so many homes at a timo when there Is widespread unemployment unem-ployment One or two nights with those who are without a dollar and have no re source of any kind to draw on. not even friendship, might make us better bet-ter men and women in life's general activities. |