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AND A LIVING 



detriment to all in these days when country and 

 city are so knit together in a subtle bond of ac- 

 tion and interaction. 



CITY AMUSEMENTS AND OTHER "ELEVATING" 

 THINGS. 



Talk to the young men or women here in 

 New York (of course not ALL of them), es- 

 pecially those born and brought up in town, and 

 before anything else they will tell of the great 

 fun they are having. They work hard, and have 

 long hours. Yet these young people, inclined 

 toward fun, spend every cent they can spare on 

 clothes and amusements. 



STATISTICS THAT GIVE FALSE IMPRESSIONS. 



I will cite here a few instances which show 

 what the city offers the poor. I call "poor" 

 every one who cannot afford to be sick for a 

 few weeks, or who has not over four weeks' 

 wages in the savings bank. The savings bank 

 reports show how many hundreds of thousands 

 of people have deposited in the hundred odd sav- 

 ings institutions on Manhattan Island alone. If 

 you walk into any worker's home, even on Third 



