He's a kind of dreamer--an impracticable man.

He pays lots of poor people's rents, and I try to show him that he is merely encouraging idleness and crime.

But I can't make him see it.

He declares that, if a sewing-girl makes but two dollars a week and has a helpless mother and three small sisters to support besides rent and fuel, and so on, it's not encouraging idleness to help her with the rent.

Well, I suppose it _is_ hard sometimes with some of those people.