Washington standard. [volume] (Olympia, Wash. Territory) 1860-1921, 1881-07-22


shining boots but il gathering pennies
and five pieces for charitys sake.
Wien questioned IS to Why he Was so
far below the market price IN shines he
used to tell piiiable story OF being
robbed 10y other boys OF the money he
made during the day, and of now being
anxious TO get enough to buy coffee and
cakes with. Its late," he used to
say, land there sin't no rich people
ont. so | got TO shine cheap lie usu-
ally gCt dot and wGs not required to
do any shining. Now the imltators of
this enterprising youth are all over the
city, and Ii lad lot Of scamps they are.
Any boy who has box can make d
living oa the s.rests IL he wants to
work. Tho young Italians who adopt
the business do not remain in it more
than year, during which tilao they
generally save enough to go into the
fruit or some other small business re-
quiring little capital.
There is another specimen who re.
quires looking after, and he is the
ragged youth whom you find crouched
on the steps of the IL station very
late O nights crying bitterly and sob,
bing as though his poor little heart
would break. Of course yon step and
ask, Sonny, what is the matter with
You? and sonny, endeavoring hard to
control his unbridled emotions. sobs,
81 lost me DOODLE" You scrutinize
him carefully to see what portion OF his
clothing is missing, if you are not up
in local slang, and missing none, aud
being convinced that doodle" is not
something to wear, you ask him, re
turning TO first principles, "What is
your boodie, sonny That last ques-
ton settles your fate, for sonny feels
quite equal to " stuiiing" any man who
don't know what doodle is. He
looks as miserable as he can and tells
you how some "big fellahs stolo his
hard earned money and how he is afraid
to go home cause the ole man III lick
me-" You give him ten cents or what,
ever you have handy, and when be, TO
use his own lingo, has "caught few
more suckers" he goes around ON Sixth
avenue and "blowa the gang on"
Blowing the gang eff is Sixth ayenue
for eleemosynary beer.
Then there is the young fraud with
the last evening paper. which he has
been endeavorinS in vain. SO lie tells
You at twelve midnight, to sell since
five o'clock. This trick is part Of IA
business. and if you keep your eye
open you sill discover somewhere
in the neigi.borhOod mau or woman
with q bundle of papers who is supply
ing number of little boys aud girls
with 1.-The last > paper as fast as they
can sell them. These papers are bought
! at discount from regular newsboys
who have been stuck after the rush
ing demand is over.
Hardly lady in New York who has
had much shopping experience who has
not met man who shuilles his feet
along after him as though he was pay
alyZed, and carries one Of his arms SO
awkwardly that his elbow is III every
body's way. The effect of commits
serating glance on the poor cripple is
almost too melting to admit OF treat.
ment in type. A look of pity is sulli-
cient TO paralyze his paralysis and make
him look ten years Older AMI fifty per
cent more miserable. But the greatest
change in his manner and appearances is
effected by kick in the bulbous por-
ton OF his anatomy. To see him forget
his intirmity and make off down the
street like rabbit when ward de-
tective gives him o rousing kick, quite
rehabilita,es ones faith In Gospel mir
acles. He is an antique A No. fraud
That tishy-eyed ola woman who bcgs
pennies in Twenty-third street during
the daytime AID at night in various
parts of the city, east and west, griGds
on wheezy little hurdy- gnrdy, is the
trainer Of Young beggars, und before
the Society for the Prevention OF Cru
city to Children destroyed her business,
she divided big money with number
Of the padroni. And can't she swear
You could make matches ont CT her
breath when she gets warmed up to her
subject.
| Some complaint has been made about
tho lead-pencil fend, but, reader, this
is subject to be touched on lightly fol-
it is the stepping stone to the most neg,
lected class of God s creatures. The sick,
the hungry, the old and decrepit aud
the homeless are looked after in New
York, but the man who has fallen and
paid his forfeit in Imprisonment aud
work to the society whose laws be trans
gressed has no one to look to but one
nOble-minded woman whose fortune is
now spent and who is poor indeed
What little she can save from her scani
income, by living on the fourth floor Of
O house, she devotes to giving these
men start in life. and many man to
day ia business in America owes hit
recovery of place in the world 10 hel
great charity. Hundreds Of men, full
OF honest purpose and strong IN tht
determination 60 err no ncTr, Lavs
come out from the gloomy shadows o.
damp jails to find that that convention
known as society. regards the brief pun
ishment of Imprisonment ga only pre-
iiminary to an eternal ostracism. These
men Linda Gilbert has saved from fall
ing back into crime by such simple de
vices as pencil and notebook peddling
Stop q moment, reader, when you think
of giving u beggar penny, which viii
only make him more bcggar, and Lell
fallen man ont of IL rut into which ht
may have fallen, not leared. The
foundations of many better lives are il
| le9d-peEc1ls.
Contrasting the streets of New Yorl
to-day with their aspect ten years ago
one cannot fail to mark a vast improve
ment. The fellow who used to bloch
the street with crowds congregated te
hear him orete on the virtue of hi:
patent grease eradicator done up in
cunning little boxes, in each of which
he puts sums oi money varying from -
10 SO. has disappeared. The other
iiend who destroyed the teeth OF q
whole generation of office boys with bis
"lightnipg" tooth paste, is still in
town, but he does no. now frequent the
lower section. He is up on Eighth
avenue, chewing away ON bis own vile
compound and destroying vnlcanized
rubber palate and porcelain teeth at the
rate of a set n month. The little flower
girl, who always worries your flank
when you seem to be particularly inter
ested with your lady companion on
Broadway, is still very active, but it is
an i'll wind that blows nobody goed, SO
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