Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 March 1918 — Privileges of the Poor. [ARTICLE]

Privileges of the Poor.

Will you show me any other people outside of the fairy books who can put the most fearful calamity on like a cloak and doff it at will, who can augment their families to seven or eight children overnight, and reduce them as readily to five or six on the following day if it but seem to them advisable? Where outside their ranks is there anyone capable of persuading you that it is a privilege to sleep cold so that some Darius you never saw or care to see shall, he had his allegorical mule, go better warmed? Who else, being neither of your kith nor kin, has such power over you that, with a mere bloodshot eye and shiver of the shoulders, they can turn your automobile, your furs, your w.armth and all your pleasant pleasures into Dead sea apples of discomfort? —Laura Spencer Porter, in the Atlantic Magazine.