IX 



Behind Iron Bars 



THERE are certain other friends 

 I should like to have you meet. 

 They may amuse or entertain you 

 well, but I had much rather have you 

 say that they excite your pity or com- 

 passion when you see them. They are 

 of the animal not the vegetable king- 

 dom; so if you prefer to go downtown 

 and sit in the Pompeian room and 

 study the human "zoo," all well and 

 good. I have no objections. Every 

 one to his taste. In that case I will go 

 alone, as usual, to speak a sympa- 

 thetic word to those behind iron bars. 

 I have come to know most of them, not 

 by any individual names, but by their 

 respective personalities and peculiar- 



