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Fastidious Poverty

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Parent Issue
Day
17
Month
July
Year
1874
Copyright
Public Domain
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Sonto, time ago a prominent bank officer whose fight had been over for some ten years past said to me, speaking of the hard times relnctantly, for he took no pleasure in telling of them : " What I Buffered most from was the lack of good food. My occupation was a dual one, and I eked out an existence, in order to support my family, by keeping books, and at night, made with my own hands workiug models for patent-lawyers. The two distinct occupations helped to keep my mind fresher. " I think, after the desiro to have an occasional delicacy, a pair of kid gloves in cold weather was what I most longed for. Sometimes I feit an inclination to steal a pair. Once I found a pair of good ones in the street and was made happy for the winter, and was in despair wnen I lost them the next year. I craved delicacies, as a woman in certain conditions of niaternity longa after peculiar food. "Iknewouco a poor devil - lie hart seen better days, and was a recklpss no'er-do-well - who came to me six months ago saying ho was starving. I gave him a half-dollar, and ten minutes afterward I saw him on Broadway at a fruiterer's, buy and eat a Duchesse pear , aud I watched him strip off the tissuepaper covering with tho same grace as when dining with D'Orsay, he had unfolded bis napkin. It was no pretensiĆ³n on his part but a puro physical craving. He might have had a surfeit of pork aml beans, but a yellow juicy pear was what would do him the most good. ""When my prospects brightened, uiy toilet reinained for a long time but very little iniproved. I think that indifference to fine clothes, acquired by poverty,' remains ; but as to my table, it was the food for my wife, my children, and myself first feit the effects of bettor days.'

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Old News
Michigan Argus