Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1884 — What They Live On. [ARTICLE]

What They Live On.

“Gracious me!” said a young lady of the slums committee, going into a room on the fourth floor of a miserable tenement, “this is awful,” “Fearful,” replied her companion. “Why here’s a mother and five children, all cooped up together in a little room, with not even the necessaries of life.” “Terrible, terrible. I don’t see what the poor things live on.” “I do,” said the man carrying their basket; “they live on the fourth floor." The young ladies dispensed their charity in silence, and then reported the man to the police, —Merchant Traveler.