The Daily Ardmoreite. [volume] (Ardmore, Okla.) 1893-current, 1914-08-05
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crime
4 a9, nigh, means lives lost Oh the
East Side. I. Is ilcomp5ehs1sible
zay East Side babies I've anyway.
They can't sleep indoors these hot
nights Their mothers take them ont
10 the sidewalks. They are bedded
in the motheIs arms. On tTo chairs,
I in a anywhere. The street is
alive with them. / mother, clad
above the waist in single garment,
that leaves her arms bare from the
/ shoulder, calmly nurses her yOung 2.
ster IN the nickering gas light \
four year old boy, cherI1ic despite
his dirty face and hands plays hap
PLY clad in an all too short little
! shirt.
The men, most Of them worn b.
manual labor or long hours in dingy
stores, lie prostrate on the sidewalks
in the doorways, or else pillow their
! heads and bodies on bedding on the
fire escapes. 4 push cart wends its
way silently through the City OF the
, Dreadful Night-silent that the sleep
ers may not be disturbed, but with
an eye for business. For it seems
that the Hast Side always eats.
Someone will spend few pennies
for queer foreign sausages, or for
sticky fruits, Of defy germs in a
sweetlsh sickly looking lemonade. a
few Of them will sit on the curbstone
near the corner family saloon and
quaff huge goblets Of beer. All is
very quiet. considering that there are
hundreds on the street. In the shad
ow Of the gtoop a mere girl and a
boy will be wooing, in full sight Of
all the neIghbOrs They marry young
on the East Side. There Is scant
chance for quiet tete-a-tetes.
II is midnight but the groups on
the streets are unchanged An occa-
sional wagon rattIes along. the driy-
er cautiously vending bis way. The
tired women grouped over their ba-
bles mutterinc terms Of endearment
in a babel Of foreign tongues, do not
look up. The little grocery store
closes up-tha, is it's lights 20 out,
but the proprietor, his breast barred,
lies in the doorway seeking sleep.
Some wakeful child rolls a milk
can along the street, It's changing
echoes a hundred sleepers and there
Is a momentary outburst OF foreign
oaths and a whimpering Of the chill
dren over their punishment. Then
quiet again. Everywhere is the
sinking breath Of the steamy streets,
Uttered with paper and rubbish Of
every description.
n The night goes wearily on The
slcepers occasionally awaken, talk
YEARLY. stretch their cramped limbs
and seek repose again. In one door
way five children lay all but naked,
and curled together In mass Of
legs and srms-the street lamp shed.
ding radiance into their eyes But
they sleep just the same. The ga
looms close. Nearly all lights are ont
not only because lamps and gas
are hot. but also because their burn
ing costs money.
| \ sightseeing automobile rounds
the corner, the gears grinding. Men
and women OF another world chatter
and point ont the "zights'-,he de
iected women, twisted In attitudes
Of exhaustion, and the babies and
the slatternly men. For the mos'
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