Josephine Dodge Daskam, Fables for the Fair — 13. The Woman Who Took Things Literally (1902)
“ She remembered the Last Page of the Celebrated Scientist's last Essay, and addressed the Beggar thus: "While I Regret to see you Suffering from Hunger, I Realize that I Injure Society more in Catering to Your Idleness than I Hurt my Feelings in Refusing your intrinsically Vicious Request." And she Sent him Away. "Great Heavens!" cried the Celebrated Scientist. "It is Hard Enough for Me to act Thus, and I am Forced to in Order to be Consistent. But a Woman, whose Every Instinct should be Charity and Sympathy Incarnate—it is Disgusting!" ”
