Show cleanliness as a luxury Iu xury many rich persons who give alms but never time nor personal investigation to the subject say at least poor people can keep themselves and thir their houses bouses clean they do not know that cleanliness demands money and time without soap it is impossible to towels or sheets or oi oven even faces and hands in this grimy city and hot water is a luxury if you have to save every scrap of coal or wood I 1 have seen families naturally inclined to cleanliness go very dirty indeed for want of hot water soap and ambition ambition is expensive too and costs as much as many tangible items to keep up I 1 can call imagine perfect apathy as to and grime if 1 did not own a towel chicago post |