Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 149, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1918 — Real Poverty [ARTICLE]

Real Poverty

Poverty is a variable term and much subject to comparison. Some will allow it only to those who have been born to it. To have been always halfstarved, these think, and to carry a basket from door to door —that is to be poor. But it is idle to think of cold and hunger to the point of beggary as the only cold and hunger there are. Not alone are there degrees of cold and hunger of the body —discomfortable and ill-nourished living—but there are, as well, things which seem to me even more difficult to endure —unsatisfied hunger' of the mind and heart and a most cruel and persistent chill of the spirit.—Laura Spencer Porter, in the Atlantic.