The hobos should form a union for mutual protection against that class of “gay cats” who are continually spoiling a good thing. In days past, any gook with a hunger story could get something more than kind words at the Kitchen door of our casa. Then came a hunger stricken specimen who absentmindedly permitted a solid silver spoon to follow him off the premises, and since that time the free-lunch department has been closed.
The Topeka State Journal, Topeka, KS, June 9, 1913