LADY BOUNTIFUL
While others of her social sot spend their time at icas find dances, Miss Marinn Spore, one of New York's rich women, is spending £7000 a year helping the pool. Her "bread line" is in operation from January to April of each year, when thousands of Bowery derelicts receive free food. Miss Spore (says' the "Now York correspondent of the "Daily Chronicle") spends two days a week supervising the "hand-outs," standing at the head of the long line of the w'orklcss, the homeless, the ailing, and the hungry. No questions are asked. No one is turned away for "investigation." Miss Spore- swiftly appraises'each applicant and whispers a word to one of her helpers. Often the aid given is in the form of a food ticket; but sometimes it is a slip for new shoes, or a suit, or an overcoat, a crutch, an artilkual leg, a glass eye, dV a, railway ticket to tako a J'down and out" back home.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 15
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162LADY BOUNTIFUL Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 108, 9 May 1930, Page 15
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