33 THE LETTER THAT 



PROMPTED THIS BOOK 



look on while the world moves, and others whose 

 life is incessant toil with practically nothing to 

 show for it but ill health, a wife and children in 

 stuffy and gloomy half-furnished, broken down 

 boxes of flats in " houses " where twenty to forty 

 families live in similar circumstances. 



DOES THE CITY GIVE COMFORT? 



New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, and prac- 

 tically every large city in the United States, are 

 the scenes of heart-rending struggles for exist- 

 ence. Not only in our country, but in every 

 country is this so. It is only at our own doors 

 that such scenes strike our sympathies and 

 awaken our pity, and bring to our face a glow 

 of shame that such is the living of millions of 

 our countrymen. 



Take a trip through the " living " sections of 

 our large cities not only the slums and sections 

 where foreigners herd together like so many cat- 

 tle. I mean the homes of the poor American 

 bred or the naturalized Americans, be they Irish, 

 Scotch, English, German, Italian, or what not 

 those who are making the United States what 



