Arena magazine - Volume 04 . ayevening when the child visited the Mission. An investigationsubstantiated the truth of the childs words. The mother,too proud to beg, struggled with fate, hoping and praying tobe able to succeed without asking for aid, but seeing herbabe starving to death, she yielded. This case fii*ds manycounterparts where a little aid bridges over a period offrightful want, after which the unfortunate are able, in ameasure, to take care of themselves. I find it impossible in this paper to touch upon other casesI desired to describe. The above illustrations however, typicalof t
Arena magazine - Volume 04 . ayevening when the child visited the Mission. An investigationsubstantiated the truth of the childs words. The mother,too proud to beg, struggled with fate, hoping and praying tobe able to succeed without asking for aid, but seeing herbabe starving to death, she yielded. This case fii*ds manycounterparts where a little aid bridges over a period offrightful want, after which the unfortunate are able, in ameasure, to take care of themselves. I find it impossible in this paper to touch upon other casesI desired to describe. The above illustrations however, typicalof the life and environment of hundreds of families, aresufficient to emphasize a condition which exists in our midstand which is yearly growing, both in extent and in intensityof bitterness; a condition that ig little understood by thosewho are not actually brought in contact with the circum-stances as they exist, a condition at once revolting andappalling to ^very sense of huifaanity and justice. We can- Digitized by VjOOQIC \. PORTUGUESE WIDOW IN ATTIC (SEE NOTE).
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