New-York tribune., 1910-06-05
THE SAME OLD STORY.

1.-TWO days SfterHard he accOSted me
again With the same story. When I re-
! minded him OF the places TO which 1 had
sent him he recounted what sounded like
truthful story about disappointment in
those quarters The odor OF liquor was
strong this time, and as I sent him TO a
place to get work I gave him less change
tian on the first occasion. A few days
thereafter the same man. repeating the
same plea for work staggered up my stairs
after me as I inserted my latchkey. He
was too intoxicated 10 realize anything ex-
cept that must give him money. I gave
him cents to set rid OF him.
Happily women are not as inveterate
travellers as men, because they are able 10
work more easily upon the sympathies of
the charitably inclined. Those TO whom ap-
peal is made 10 give them a home usually
consent. however grudgingly, and the trip
IS made TO the desired station and there
Is a respite before another journey is un-
dertaken. Ministers, church and feminine
Charitable societies fan most ready prey 10
the would-be traveller. I remember that
my wife and her friends for a whole viii
ter clothed and pampered up robust look
ing woman (who claimed to have a most
/ deadly heart disease that prevented any
exertion whatever) before the woman re-
called that she had relatives in a pleasant
resort about two thousand miles away, who
would she knew, take care Of her If she
were only able TO reach them. It did not
taka long for those women TO induce rail
road TO give them half rates TO a point
near this town. They bought the ticket,
furnished the woman and her nearly grown
child with money and the necessaries for
comfortable travel and sent the two on
their way Late in the autumn my wife
read from the society notes Of a Sunday
paper this announcement:
Mrs Ethelbcrt Jones Chat was the
luxurious pauper's name) after a pleasant
summer spent at Moonshine Springs has
returned 10 the city
We'll" CALCULATED my wife.
''Tha, exclamation meant that. I'm the
interval Of Mrs. Jones's absence various
clergymen and women had testified 10 the
Suns Of money given 10 Mrs. Jones, each
believing that the woman had no other
source Of aid To most she represented
herself as a needy friend Of some one OF
,l,e women in the association that had sup
no1-ted her in such comfort, and 70 each
sbe had said that she would not for
worlds have dear Mrs. So-and-so inforned
of her sad straits which were, of course
always only temporary
sslfrs Ethelbert Jones has more dupii-
Gates than one would care TO cnumerat"'
hut though so many travel by their wis
few are so successful as the elderly women
who pretend 10 inhrmities and years not
vet attained. These invariably win thelF
vav 70 the son., daughter or other 'rela-
I've whom the petitioner for transporta-
tion &c ALWAYS able TO locate in the place
she desires TO visit. The knowledge thal
Tho old creature will become charge ana
the natural pity Of humanity for the ageu'
make every one eager 20 speed these travel
Iers upon their Journeys without TOO much
inquiry into their ages. decrepitude or 'he
reality Of the persons who are represented .
as waiting 10 receive them with tears VI
Joy upon the other side Of the continent