"It gives me authority," she said.

"They listen to my words with more respect." The Fraeulein Barbara, who founded the home for degraded and drunken sailors in London, used other means to gain influence over them.

"I too," she would say, taking the poor applicant by the hand when he came to her door, "I, too, as well as you, am one of those for whom Christ died.

We are brother and sister, and will help each other." An English artist, engaged in painting a scene in the London slums, applied to the Board of Guardians of the poor in Chelsea for leave to sketch into it, as types of want and wretchedness, certain picturesque paupers then in the almshouse.

The board refused permission on the ground that "a man does not cease to have self-respect and rights because he is a pauper, and that his misfortunes should not be paraded before the world." The incident helps to throw light on the vexed problem of the intercourse of the rich with the poor.