Evening star., 1897-01-22
Notes.
PLEA FOR THE NEWsBO1S.
Miss Brown Has Her Little Sny on ,bc
Subject.

To the Editor Of The Evening Star:
The controversy regarding the CRYING of
papers on Sunday has Interested me worry
much, indeed, and since Il seems IN no
kind of experience meeting | am temp5.d
10 get up and add my little say also. In
the hrst place, then, let me confess thar
sympathize heartily with those who
plead guilty TO wanting TO sleep later than
usual on Sundays. Anyone who IS Obliged
10 ARISE with clockwork reguia rity every
day IN the week enjoys the luxury OF extra
rest and thus 1t happens that when the
faint cry of Post. Timesr' comes 10 me
While l am lazily defying the clock TO rout
me out, L feel oh. so sorry for the poor
htiie fellows VINO cannot enjoy the same
pleasure, but must rise unusually early on
this my rest day, in order to reap their
poor little harvest. And then thought flies
back to more than eighteen hundred wears
ago, and ii strikes me that this present
war upon the newsboys is only an outcrop-
ping OF the same spirit which at that time
caused the Christ, in defense of His dis
ciples, to declare that the Sabbath was
made for man, and not man for the Sab
bath (St Mark, ,. 20 a declaration
which, in my humble opinion, should pre-
vent those who claim TO follow i'm HIS
Iootsteps from fostering the intolerant
H.
The hours to which the bows are now re-
stricted appear to have been most wisely
CHOSEN, since they begin when people have
mad a full allowance of sleep and end be-
fore regular church services begin But
even if this We're not the case would the
small annoyance endured by an occasional
supersensitiVe person be sufficient reason
for risking the future usefulness of the
army of young beings 10 whom their Sun
day profits mean so much? There is a
great stir made year in and year out in be-
slowing charity, aims, upon hundreds in
this city. Offices are rented and officers
paid in order that this work may be car
ried on. Yet, is it not acknowledged
fact that just SO soon person becomes
a willing recipient of charity he ceases 20
be of further value as citizen? And is
not self-help, therefore, the only anchor
which can keep the rising genera ton of
the mary from drifting Off into pauperism
and crime. and consequently the encour-
agement of every effort in the direction of
honest work q duty laid upon all of uso
L must most humbly confess that my
heart grows hot with wrath every time
read OF an instance where some old or
new-fangled regulation has been used to
drive some poor fellow from the field of
self-support. Better that they should sell
their poor little stock without a license
even and remain honest, self respecting
and, consequently, valuable men than that
they should be moved on until they give
Up the struggle in despair and sink into
pauperiSm or worse.
There is so much said about ours being a
Christian nation, and yet. God forgive us.
We act SO little in the spirit of Him who
proclaimed himself the friend and COM
panion Of the poor and lowly. Let us, at
least, not add this wrong TO the list, but
leave the sweet bread of industry to these
boys, remembering that, according to an
ancient saying OF the Germans, freely
translated:
Thieves bread brings gallow's death;
Begged bread is bitter bread;
But honest labor by God is blest.''
MISS BROWN