ly comfortable manner, as the
husband found no difficulty in securing work on the sea. When the wife
died, however, circumstances changed. She left six little children, one
almost an infant. The father could not go to sea, leaving his little
flock without a protector, to fall the victims of starvation, and since
then he has worked whenever he could get employment loading vessels, or
at anything he could find. For the past six weeks he has been
practically without work, and the numerous family of little ones have
suffered for life's necessities. His rent is two dollars and a quarter a
week.

[6] NOTE ON ILLUSTRATION OUT OF WORK. The young man
photographed in his dismal lodging is a widower with six
small children; he is strictly sober, an American by birth,
but parents were Scotch and Irish. Until the illness and
death of the wife last summer, everything went reasonably
well. The husband and father followed the sea and managed
to provide for his family, even saving a little. The wife's
sickness and burial expenses ate up all and more than he
had saved, while being left with so many little children
and no one to look after them, he found it impossible to
engage in sea voyages; he was compelled to seek work which
would enable him to be home at night. This winter, work has
been very slack; for six weeks he has only been able to
obtain employment for a few days; meantime his rent, which
is two dollars and a quarter a week, has eaten up almost
all the man could earn. Through the aid of the Baptist
Bethel Mission and The Arena Relief Fund, this family has
been provided with food and clothes.

[Illustration: PORTUGUESE WIDOW IN ATTIC (SEE NOTE).]

In the attic in another tenement we found a widow[7] weeping and working
by the side of a little cradle where lay a sick child, whose large
luminous eyes shone with almost phosphorescent brilliancy from great
cavernous sockets, as they wandered from one to another, with a wistful,
soul-querying gaze. Its forehead was large and prominent, so much so
that looking at the upper part of the head one would little imagine how
terrible the emaciation of the body, which was little more than skin and
bones, speaking more eloquently than words of the ravages of slow
starvation and wasting disease. The immediate cause of the poor woman's