﻿Sunshine is paramount; rain secondary. 
Grass doesn’t grow in shade of low bridges. The verdure graduates to nothing, outside to inside, despite the moistures of running brook. 
People do not thrive or prosper in slums. 

 
Devoid of even a trace of luscious toffee  
It isn’t a question of skill or of art; 
He has good trade because he has good coffee 
He has good coffee because of good heart. 
 
Restaurant owner, one Mr. Meyers, tells a begger he “ain’t allowed” to help a hungry man. And i thought this is a free country? Mr. Meyers should be discouraged in the making of such remarks because they destroy the confidence we never had.  
“Well,” says the bum, ‘spose ill have to go out and pull grass, and that is burnt up, by the drouth, every thing is burnt up including generosity; that’s because of delegated charity.–– 
The delegation of the power of charity into other hands serves the purpose of caring for the needy––plus graft. It’s the putting of additional cost on the donors, the maintenance of gentry who commercialized human misery––heartless monsters. 
So Mr. Meyer is not allowed to dish out the sad remains of his delicious stew? 
For some time we have noticed the merchants goose stepping to the tune of the Commercial Club but we did not think the regimentation had gone so far.