...and nothing to do.' The parents squalid, idle, intemperate, and shiftless. There they li ve, j ust picking up enough to keep life warm in them ; groaning,...souls of thousands whom they never knew, and who never saw them. " Yet it is cheering — it cheered me even in that squalid hole — that the children are...

...eyes in the foul atmosphere. The old story : ' No work, no friends, rent to pay, and nothing to do.' The parents squalid, idle, intemperate, and shiftless....scat-tering abroad over the city seeds of fearful sickness—raising a brood of vagrants and harlots—retorting on society its neglect 7 by cursing...

...eyes in the foul atmosphere. The old story : ' No work, no friends, rent to pay, and nothing to do." The parents squalid, idle, intemperate, and shiftless. There they live, just picking up enough to kuep life warm in them ; groaning, and begging, and seeking work. There they live, breeding each day...

...without a shadow of disapproval: The old story: "No work, no friends, rent to pay, and nothing to do." The parents squalid, idle, intemperate, and shiftless....souls of thousands whom they never knew, and who never saw them.13 But at the same time those very things that most disturbed Brace about urban poverty only...