Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1912-10-24
FOR CONGRESS
HnN. FRANK o. SMITH
CUT OUT BIG FEED MONTHLY AT
ALMSH0USE.

today a communication from one Ru-
dolphe Owens Of Greenock, Md. who
objects TO the Aims House Expenses.
Contained therein is a list of the
monthly expenses from January 1912 to
Get. 1912, which aggregate 81. 526, 10
One month january the expenses
we're $306, ana that, too. the month
after Christmas when the Guild of
Mercy visited the County Home, carry
ing the inmates clothing of all kinds,
both men and women, provisions, jel-
lies, jam and articles for the table that
were generously given by the Annapo-
lis people who desired to send cheer to
the unfortunate poor. dependent on the
county's bounty.
Mr.. Rodolphe Owens 1--WE do not
know the gentleman does not see how
Il s possible that the inmates, (scarce
ly ever more than 49, consume the
amount charged up against them in the
bills, endorsed by the trustees.
Did Mr. Rodolphe Owens ever take
a meal with the inmates? The Guild
of Mercy has. and it knows that while
the food is wholesome and well cooked
il is simple, plain and almost meagre
In the allowance. and certainly cannot
and does not cost much per inmate.
Again. did Mr.. Rodolphe Owens even
hear of the monthly dinners served the
trustees at their meetings. Perhaps
not We have. The Guild of Mercy
knows that a lavish outlay at consid-
cradle expense is provided for the trus
teess at their regular monthly meeting.
'ft for a king. The table actually
''groans meath its weight of good
things such as delicious country ham,
turkey, chicken OYSTER crabs all the
vegetables in season. That dinner
costs something. 1t costs great deal.
and. of course, it is included in those
monthly expenses. The inmates cost
but little, but a board of trustees any
where, anytime. anyplace who are
served good dinner is an expensive
luxury. If they must eat, sandwiches
and coffee is all they need be served,
but they could easily finnish their
business and go home after the meet
ing in time for dinner.
Don deprive the poor inmates of
the little they get, a mere subsistence
and shelter. but cut out the big feed
monthly for the trustees, if you must
economics, gentlemen of the Board of
County Commissioners, or appoint an
investigation committee with few
women on the committee and you will
soon discover where in the "extrava-
gance lies.
Unless you are making a speech you
are not saying much when you talk
loud.
Too many What's the use?' citizens
will get the whole town thinking that
way.
Those New York gunner continue to
prove that they are still gangsters, all
right.
President Madero has his hands full
now, all right, and he probably realizes
il fully.
If we all waited for authority to
speak, half the people would forget !
how TO talk.
Empty stateroom started mystery
when a steamboat reached her wharf.
Don't see why. Man can't be expect
ed TO live in stateroom.
Beer with an egg in it is a New York
drink. Do you wonder at the increase
Of crime in that city?-Poughkeepsie
Star. What do you want, an egg with
beer in it?-New York Telegram.
Absence may make the heart grow
fonder. but only on one side II there
a hoodoo around. Virginia woman
spurns the husband who left her en-
the thirteenth and returned on the
thirteenth after an absence OF thirteen /
years. Better join the Thirteen Club
and defy the jinx.