A String of Pearls

⭐ Featured Review

"A picture of contrasts whose purpose seems to be to show something of how a tenement house is organized on its human side. What we mean will be much dearer to those who see the picture. Life is an organism; we are in truth one. All of us can see ourselves in others; even the rich man of the picture, the man who paid a quarter of a million for the string of pearls, could do that. He said, "I have worked for my money, let them do so." On the other hand, it needs some humanizing experience to make us recognize others in ourselves, to make us sympathetic. Hard luck is very apt to do this..."