The strikers suffered bitter poverty last winter in New York.

 

Last winter a woman visiting the East Side of New York City saw another woman

coming out of a tenement house wringing her hands. Upon inquiry the visitor

found that a child had fainted in one of the apartments. She entered, and saw

the child ill and in rags, while the father, a striker, was too poor to provide

medical help. A physician was called and said the child had fainted from lack of

food. The only food in the home was dried fish. The visitor provided groceries

for the family and ordered the milkman to leave milk for them daily. A month

later she returned. The father of the family knelt down before her, and calling

her an angel said that she had saved their lives, for the milk she had provided

was all the food they had had.

 

In the two preceding paragraphs we have substantially the same story, told

twice. In the first paragraph we have a fact stated in general terms. In the

second, we have an outline picture of a specific happening. Now expand this

outline into a dramatic recital, drawing freely upon your imagination.

 

FOOTNOTES:

 

[Footnote 29: _Inquiries into Human Faculty_.]

 

[Footnote 30: Consult any good rhetoric. An unabridged dictionary will also be

of help.]