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AND A LIVING 



summer ; or in winter to read of persons freezing 

 to death in the streets and even in their scanty, 

 ill-protected houses? Or to listen to the thou- 

 sand appeals from as many charitable organiza- 

 tions and institutions, calling for aid in the re- 

 lief of the untold misery of the poor, all the 

 year round? 



NO "SWEETNESS AND LIGHT" HERE. 



Picture the " happy homes " of hundreds of 

 thousands of poor, who live in dilapidated struc- 

 tures that occupy the space needed for ventila- 

 tion and light the back yards. Thus sand- 

 wiched in they are surrounded on all sides by 

 higher houses, shut off from sunlight all day, 

 their only view of the outside world being the 

 back windows of the flats of families little better 

 situated than themselves; their avenue of en- 

 trance into their little world being a dark, 

 gloomy, foul alley, often used as a refuse dump. 

 There is where you can also see hard-working 

 Americans " living " freezing well-nigh to 

 death in winter and fairly roasting alive in sum- 

 mer! And these are the people who are the first 



