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| Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty. "Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism. |
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| "Among the very poor new clothing for the children, clothes expressly made to measure, or bought to fit, are almost undreamed of. The garments of these children are 'casts off,' and of the poorest and cheapest kinds at that. The parents have not the time, and, generally speaking, not the skill, necessary for any effective work of sartorial restoration or alteration, and the clothes have to be taken into wear as they come to hand, though they may be 'sizes' too large or small." |
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Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty."Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism.
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| Throughout the winter months, the months in which the poverty of the poorest of the poor is greatest, and hunger stings its sharpest, we dine our five hundred children per day for four days a week. |
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Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty."Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism.
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| "Whether or not it is true that the way to a man s heart is through his stomach, certain it is that there is a very direct connection between stomach and brain. All teachers were of course aware of this as a simple physiological fact, but those of them who were appointed to the poorer of the new schools had it brought home to their business and bosoms in a very practical and painful fashion. Officially they were not supposed to take into account such a thing as hunger. Ill or well, fed or unfed, the children were in the schools, they occupied 'school places,' were potential grant-earners." |
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Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty."Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism.
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| "Time was when the extent of juvenile suffering in this respect was only realised by those who personally explored the regions of poverty, and entered the foodless homes, and looked upon the starved child faces" |
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Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty."Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism.
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| "Then they are employed it is in the most wretchedly paid callings, while frequently and often for long 'spells' they have perforce to figure as 'the unemployed.'" |
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Wright, Thomas, The Riverside Editor. The Pinch of Poverty."Free Diner Children" chapter 20. publications. Journalism.
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| "This hungry army, this army of martyrs, one might almost say, numbers hosts of children within its ranks. It is sometimes pityingly said of these little ones that they 'can neither work nor want,' but it is a daily experience with them to have to want, to have to cry for bread to parents who have no bread to give, and to whom this 'cry of the children' is more painful than the pangs of hunger." |
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