Democratic Sentinel, Volume 5, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1881 — Inmates of Almshouses. [ARTICLE]

Inmates of Almshouses.

There is a prevalent idea that the almshouses, for the most part, shelter the unhappy and guiltless poor, whom unmerciful disaster. has followed fast and followed faster,until it has chased them into this last, refuge--people whohave come from vine-covered cottages, or tidy rooms up one flight of stairs jin tenement houses,, with a big Bib|e on the table* and-a pot of flowers ,in the window ; or even from luxurious homes' desolated by commercial panics, As

matter of fact, the great majority of American indoor paupers belong to what are called the lower classes, and seek the almshouse not because of commercial disaster, but because of very common vices.