These stories have come to me from many sources--some from my own
experience, others from settlement workers, still others from the records
of organized charity, that are never dry, as some think, but alive with
vital human interest and with the faithful striving to help the brother so
that it counts. They have this in common, that they are true. For good
reasons, names and places are changed, but they all happened as told here.
I could not have invented them had I tried; I should not have tried if I
could. For it is as pictures from the life in which they and we, you and
I, are partners, that I wish them to make their appeal to the neighbor who
lives but around the corner and does not know it.