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THE POOR IN GREAT CITIES
 

lads from the Mulberry Street Bend, ragged, dirty, unkempt, and
altogether a sight to see. Our wardrobe Avas running low, and we
Avere at our wits' end how to make these come up to our standard.
We sat looking at each other after we had heard the letter read, all
 

The Late  Charles Loring Brace,  Founder of the  Children's Aid  Society.

thinking the same thing, until the most courageous said it: "Send
them as they are." Well, we did, and waited rather breathlessly
for the verdict. It came, with the children, in a note by return
train, that said : " Not that kind, please!" And after that w^e were
allowed to have things our own AA^ay.

The two little fellows were. Italians.    In justice to our fright-