The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1884-01-04
THE CONTRAST.
A Pathetic Pencil Picture Of the
Difference
between the Christmas Chser OF the
Wealthy Glasses
And the Sad, sad sseass Of tho Slams.

Amid he alIaoss universal telling Of hap
pinos1 aud gayety which soouhaod
throughout the city yeatorJay there were
but few Of thots p0sassssd OF nappy homes
md laughing children, who could have
imagined tho SCENES OF misery ana poverty
which could have bees witnessed In other
parts of The city. by these miserable poo
ole 1. not meant the great misery NJ thosa
who. Nv their own faults, bring mitery
unou thsmselves, put only the deserving
poor. That there are Thousands OF such
Ia tho city no one can doubt. There
were many homsn yesterday where ao
roast trrkey or other fowl was served up
N n happy family, where no Christmas
tree was laden with presents. Thore was
many home where the poor, ill-olad,
h.lffroyen mem bera of the family ate their
ordinary humble meal with no other pleas
ure than the knowledge that g would al
Law for time the gnawlng hunger with
which they were ONLY too familiar; many
where there was not sufficient coal In the
stove 10 keep the room warm, and where,
instead of opening In laughter. the mouths
of the poor children we're piuehed with =
burden OF care uns6emlY Tor child TO
carry, And others, again, whore sickness
hushed all sound aud prevented all pleas
ant thoughts from remaining long IN their
minds.
In order TO more wildly set before the
some OF our poorer citizonH spent Christ.
mass World reporter yesterday visited
severa families residing in tho tenement
house districts. IL would be hard TO sde.
quatsly describe the scenes encountered,
but misery and vTe'chedness, uncoaked
and undisgulted, were met win M ovarI
ease. MANY instances there we're where the
families hsd no money 10 buy provisions,
and Others who had. but being necessarily
obliged 10 buy Of the smallest retailers,
were aonpelled to pay priCeP which must
have made an eXOrbitaut profit for tbs
dealer, who bought az wholesale. Let oar
READERS imagine buving coal at cents 3
half pail, when the price OF ton Is but 3d.
8 cents for pound Of Hour, when IL can
be had for SO per barrel 6 cents per ounce
for tea, 10 cents for quarter pound OF
butter. ana other articles ut the same dis.
proportlonats prices. Az this rate, OF
sour,e. persons with but little money can
not make II 20 very far, and, consequently,
must contanf themselves with littls
In dismal garrett OF the rear house No.
l73 Essex strsst lives Mrs. Dier,ch--alons.
She was born in 1902, A bright, chesry old
woman she is, sorupulously neat In her at
tire and content with her sal fate.
az am glad NV conscious is CLAIR" she
,aid To The reporter, "and that ! owe mo-
body anything. can do knitting yet, and
work for Mr. Hess on Grand siresI."
How much 90 you earn!
"TaR cents day, and / receive 81 q
month from the church ! belong to. ] try
10 get along with that. ! am very old, and
YOU know, won't liva much longer BE.
sides don't eat much"
Her husband has been dead twenty-five
wears, and six months ago she bured this
last OF hsr eight children. She pays ~ sO
rent for her little room, which she has or
namented with a faw hower.po,s in the
a.. uont1 ehrinlk irOm beiuH
sent TO an INDECENT asylum. But small
weekly stipend would raise her above the
necessity of earning ten cents day at knit
ting. and enable her to pass her lew re-
naming days without being haunted by
the shadow Of grim want.
Mrs. Ann Doran, a blind widow with
three children, lives in miserable hols OF
n csIlar In the rear of No. 143 Mulberry
street. az pay 81 month rart, ,he
Whispered to the reporter, but don't tell
ANYONE. The landlord gives 10 to me half
A dollar cheaper bsoauss I'm blind"
Tho reporter sssed at the squalid, dis
| sass- breeding room, the broken windows,
through which In spite OF the clothes
stufIad in the holes, the snow was drifting
in. and thought that 81 month was, to
say the least, rather exOrbltsnt. =,
| HIps tho neishbors that are good 10 me,
| said the blind woman Is her children huq.
dled around her tat cred calico dress. III
ii wasn't for them Pm afraid we'd staryo.
AThe grocer has sent g Christmas tres for
No children, God bless him, and God bless
Jldge stocklsr, too, for the. fne turkey
Snieh rave US our Christmas dinner today
IRv his soul shine in haGysn!"
she felt cheerful. " not happy despite
ar sfflioiion and its consequent train 81
Misery .-[New York World.
NJ. 4. J. P.uAvl,.l. E-li1, cezaT sayi'
| was sokly man. Browne ron Bittsrs
n. made M, hearty ard strong"