Springfield globe-republic. (Springfield, Ohio) 1884-1887, 1885-09-20
IN MADISON SQUARE,
1As PkOPLE VINO HAvE lOS1
THEIR GRIP ON LIFr.


New York, Sept l7.-As the snmmor
slips away Madi on squarh takes ON look
Of sadnc = which comes not from the fndinv
flowers, the dying foliage, the withering
grass. IL comes from the fCrlorn mon md
women who sit there hour after hour with
despair in their h,arts. Som how their
hopalessne,s permeatcs the place, and makes
IL look as well as feel dcsolate.
They are always there, those homeless
people, always when the air j. mid enough
to insure tn m from freezing to death. In
the summer they crowd into the shade: in
the fall AMI winter they seek tho sun
There th v are, row after row of them men
and women. yount an old. entire stran yer.
10 each 9th, yet related by the common
tie of poverty, all inhabting the dismal
kingdom II woe.
They ara the pitinb,e creatures who bove
''lost thoir grip" What other loss could
lie so dir'fuli They have tried their hsuls
at the business OF life au1 failed. Ehs
failure has paralyzci their energies. stia ID
their ambition, destroyed their hope
Their self confidence, o'hcraiS grip" i,
gone. What awful experiences lei up to
this state OF apathy can only b, con j,clured.
Any one who has ever felt him sc,f UNEQUAL
TO the difficulties that cd him VIII have
some idea of what II loss Of grip" means.
1t means loss Of everything, letiug-so
Of all holds upon lif', shaking into effort.
less despair. No ether affection is com.
parable to il. Riches, opportunity. love,
luck yes, even health may vanish and the
future still be without ir'ad, IL ''grip" re-
mains. without it human being becomes
a lost soul, no matter whether he dwels in
palace or hovel. In mind he is ruin, a
CT, r,ature who has lost strength, purpose,
will, all the qualit os that give us force,
and yet knows that he neels them, and
suffers for lack of them.
IL the benches of Milison square could
speak what IN Iuntains of despair they could
describe. Dav aft,r day they are sat upon
by poor mor,als whose hearts are a. heavy
rs mountains. Tle hurried, the hopeful,
the pfo,p 'rous, yes. even the happy, pas
b1skly by, but tn " leave none of taeir
strength with the sad souls on the benches.
Children laugh and play en the walks in
front of them, but they So, them not. Their
eyes are looking into the tcrrors of to-nor-
row which ma b. even greater than those
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