Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . ems as though almost everybody by this timemust have heard that fresh air is what will con-quer consumption. In schoolrooms, stores, of-fices, factories, and homes people are trying tobanish foul air. Millions of bedroom windowswhich used to be tightly closed are thrown openevery night. The fight against dark, crowded tenements,which Jacob Riis so nobly started, helps inthis cause also. Sunlight, we have now learned,is almost as deadly an enemy of this diseaseas is fre^h air. They are both Gods giftsto the world and should always be free toal
Stories of brotherhood; a book for boys and girls . ems as though almost everybody by this timemust have heard that fresh air is what will con-quer consumption. In schoolrooms, stores, of-fices, factories, and homes people are trying tobanish foul air. Millions of bedroom windowswhich used to be tightly closed are thrown openevery night. The fight against dark, crowded tenements,which Jacob Riis so nobly started, helps inthis cause also. Sunlight, we have now learned,is almost as deadly an enemy of this diseaseas is fre^h air. They are both Gods giftsto the world and should always be free toall. And we are beginning to win our show that fewer persons die of tuber-culosis now than formerly. To be sure the dif-ference is not very great as yet, but it is a be-ginning. And by and by the time will surelycome when the Great White Plague will be abol-ished; no more hearts will be darkened and nomore happy lives shortened by those dreadfulwords—lung trouble, consumption, tuberculosis. How much the world already owes to this. 44 STORIES OF BROTHERHOOD man, who would not give up and who usedGods gift of restored health and strength tohelp all men and women and little children towin that same hoon! VII A MAN WHO DID NOT WANT ANY ONETO BE POOR Woe unto them that join house to house, thatlay field to field, till there be no room. —Isaiah 5. 8 A good many years ago, before there wereany railroads to the Pacific Coast, a yonngprinters boy in Philadelphia, named HenryGeorge, set sail for San Francisco by the longvoyage aronnd Cape Horn. He was not satis-fied with the wages he was earning in the print-ing office, and he had heard of the wonderfulfortunes that were being made in California,where gold had been discovered about tenyears before. So he caught the fever anddreamed that some day he too could be rich. When he reached the western country, he soonfound work to do at his old trade, but somehowhis dreams of riches were slow in coming fact, he came
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