This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ..."Poor people; cannot keep very nice," and laughed as if she had said a good thing. There was nothing in the room but a table and a few chairs and a stove, without fire, but they were all contentedly there together in the dark, which hardly lot them Boo one another's faces. My companion struck a match ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1896 edition. Excerpt: ..."Poor people; cannot keep very nice," and laughed as if she had said a good thing. There was nothing in the room but a table and a few chairs and a stove, without fire, but they were all contentedly there together in the dark, which hardly lot them Boo one another's faces. My companion struck a match and held it to the cavernous mouth of an inner cellar half as large as the room we wero in, whero it winked and paled so soon that I had only a glimpso of the bed, with tbo rounded heap of bedding on it; but out of this hole, as if she had boon a rat, scared from it by the light, young girl camo, rubbing her eyes and vaguely smiling, and vanished up-stairs somowhore. IV. I found no shapo or sizo of tenement but this. There was always the one room, whore tho inmates lived by day, and tho one don, whoro they slept by night, apparently all in tho samo bed, though probably the children wero strewn about tho floor. If tho tenement woro high up tho living-room had moro light and air than if it wero low down; but the sloopingholo nover had any light or air of its own. My calls wero made on one of the mild days whioh fell before last Christmas, and so I suppose I saw these places at their best; but what they must be when tho summer is seven times heated without, as it often is in New York, or whon tho arctic cold has pierced these hapless abodes and the inmates huddlo together for their animal heat, tho reader must imagine for himself. Tho Irish-Americans had flaming stoves, even on that soft day, but in tho Hebrew tenements I fonnd no firo. They were doubtless tho botter for this, and it is one of tho comical anomalios of tho wholo affair that they aro singularly hoalthy. Tho death rate among them is one of tho lowest in tho city, though...
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