The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-01-19
USES OF ADVERSELY.
Shakespeare to the Contrary,
They Are Not Sweet.
The BITTERNESS or POVERTY.
People whs Hare No Conseptisn Of
What II IL - BE reer-Ths Pc
nuraons Raeh.


sf1d fluctuations enough IN that rOnantic
/ lsie d his. whas with Sir ThoAaas Lacy and
Anne Hathaway and his StroIling player
vagrAncy, nov up. now down. and only
when he wAs wels along in years was be
getting q comfortable income and growing
reputation. But poverty il those dsys was
SeFy different from the poverty 81 these,
when It's contrast with the ease and luxury
Of wealth Is 50 much greater, and poverty
70 man never means quite what ii does TO
woman. III lar q good substantial
wager that Mistress Anne Hathaway. Whose
business is was TO Ieep the housekeeping
accounts ard clothe and feed the children,
would have thrown a splendid scorn 1t her
husbands philosophical saying. The uses
Of adversely sweet, indeed! She, II you
please, could have told a very different
tale.
Il = surprising how many people there
are in the world who have not the fainiest
conception what it nieans to be poor. They
and their fathers before them have always
been Ia easy circumstance not Wander
bits or Astors, PERHAPS, but we'll 80 do,
with Sa1.ft0 or ss1tlo year. a coy, lnxn-
rious home plenty Of peeket money, and
no necessity for scrimping and saving NJ
every corner. They have a summer house
At i3eTerlg or sEAmpscott, carriage and
q horse or two, good gowns and bonnets,
simple but rich. in the approved Boston
fashion, or stylish and smart II they live
near New York; books and pictures and
music; theater-going and jolly little out
ings. with never s0r&id care To creep in
and mar the pleasures that come 10 them
81 easily and frequently OF course. thev
often wish they were richer There is
always higher round on the ladder than
that we have reached for il stretches.
like jacobs. away zip into intinity But
generally speaking. these lucky souls are
pretty well eonteHted with their lots, and
they live along from day 10 day. utterly
unconscious of the fact tbai many OF their
equals exist within stones throw in {.
rigid economy and careful counting ol
pennies that Is one Of the most exquisite
fortunes in the world.
Of course there are certain kinds OF pow
arty that everybody knows about--the poor
working people. mechanics, day laborers,
sewing women. who drudge half their lives
away in a long Gespairing effort to keep
body and soul together aud the hungry
wolf from Tie door. The investigations of
charitable soeiet es have brought 10 light a
thousand narrowing tales Of the sufEerings
and SORROWS Of these unhappy toilers that
have touched the hearts aad opened the
purses Of their more prosperous fellows,
who, 10 do them justice, are liberal and
generous to a fault whenever shey think
an occasion fitting Lazarus Fitted out OF
tbs mire. provided with top boots and
blankets. filled With pate 9e foi gus and
extra dry-this is delightful phase OF
charity that Is constantly going ON before
orr eyes. The system Of giving has been
reduced % such perfection In the nine
tenth century that any worthy applicant
for assistance Is helped in q judicions and
careful way, not to an idle dependence
upon public charity, but 10 a sufficient self
support There are eases which this sys-
tenn cannot reach. or has not yet reached,
Al ali events. but there is ne reason why
ANY man, woman or child should starve in
Boston today, with so many kind and open
hands held out to relieve theA.
This, however. Is not the most trying
Kind Of poverty. Another, harder and
more bitterly cruel 90 bear, is that which
starves the mind and soul as well as the
body, and turns into Grabbed and soothing
cynics and misanthropic natures which,
under other circumstances, would have
BEEN nobis aud generous and hopeful. |
speak OF the adversely Of misfortune, the
poverty that comes after competence and
wealth. Only those who have passed
through this fiery furnace can have any
conception 0f what its daily trials a-e, or
with what reluctance and difficulty life adj
iusts itself tn new conditions which warp
and eramp ard eonfine Il on every side II
Is all very wei 70 say that one has ionged
fer the unattainabIe, and FOR shat inust al
ways he unattsinable, but the joys We have
once tasted. and found delicious, are those
Tor whieh We yearn with fervor Zen times
as deep aud ardent II you have never had
Turkey rugs ard Moorish hangings. Nd
lets and Aeissoinners upon your walls,
Barye hronxes in yoar cabinets. North
gowns and Nirut honnets, cacaubers in
neoesher and strawberries IN January. a
box az the opera and carte blanche az Del
uaoalcos. you can hardly knox What
vast improvements they make in
Isle, wheh seems sogiia and bare
enoush without them However. Il il not
every ntss, by any means. who is lnekv
enough 10 possess ats thee desirable aa-
/ l0nets. Bat there are hundreds ard fhoa.
sands whe enes enjoying = competence. by
sonae m.sas or other. far or gaul. have
/ becoale reduced 20 Tie nasress stipend. Sstaa
+ OF $50 meath, let rs say. They have
had e. retresleh IN every Way. give 80 their
! SpseiOus. pheasant houses ia good uss,hhar-
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