I do not know if it is true, but I have an impression that they tried to take away the child. For even though there are far too many similar cases, this seemingly dead creature did attract attention and made people wonder about its condition.
One of the most vital questions of our everyday life is whether or not to give alms. This dilemma is neither simple nor clear-cut. But there is no doubt that regardless of the opinion of the opponents [. . .] and of the activists, the issue of giving alms is not a danger, but mostly [. . .] one has to give as much as possible to [. . .] without thinking about negative or positive effects. And let me admit with satisfaction that they [passersby]give [alms], rarely but still. It would perhaps be better to give alms every single day. [. . .] They give because they have to. Physically nobody [. . .] such a swarm of beggars from all sides that when [. . .] to cross the street, to force your way through [. . .] to wipe out the memory of the macabre [. . .], to buy the peace of your digestion, sleep, and mind [. . .] you have to give 20 groszes per day. But these [. . .] treat it as a terrible insult and they keep sending [12] him empty-handed and insulted. Still some urge these skeletons to work, calling them loafers, idlers, and social parasites. Apparently, they want to shout down their own conscience because it is obvious that these people can do nothing else but die. They are morituri.96 Telling them to work is like ordering the blind to see the world. For they are practically dead already. The scraps and groszes prolong their vegetation by weeks or, in the best-case scenario, by months, but they will not give them back the souls and lives they have already irreversibly lost. If I try to glean the feelings within them, then those are only absolute hatred, schaden freude,97 desire for vengeance, for revenge. They ask for alms and complain meekly, humbly, and with servility. But they do so only out of calculation, counting on alms. But if you refuse or ignore their request, their facial expression and attitude become completely unambiguous. Jewish beggars are often too familiar, arrogant, cheeky, and impudent, so you will hear many an insult, reproach, curse, grievance, reprimand, and complaint. [Beggars complain] that pedestrians are inhuman, heartless, and indifferent. They call them fat selfish pigs. They wish oedema from hunger on them and starvation to their children, etc. Beggars say if they got 5 groszes from every pedestrian they would be able to
