Can beggar No. 2 do better than beggar No. 1?
We shall start with some quotes of Swami Vivekananda. Swami Vivekananda wrote to Ms.Ole Bull whom he regarded as his Mother, from USA during his second visit, on 17th January 1900. "... I do not expect anything much here or anywhere by lecturing. I can scarcely make expenses. No, not even that; whenever it comes to paying, the people are nowhere. The field of lecturing in this country has been overworked ; the people have outgrown that. ..." . From San Francisco on 7th March 1900. "... Anyway, I thought I could make money here in California and pay them up quietly. Now I have entirely failed in California financially. It is worse here than in Los Angeles. They come in crowds when there is a free lecture and very few when there is something to pay ..." . He wrote to Ms. Mary Hale, from Los Angeles, on June 17, 1900. "...Well, now about me. You must persuade Harriet to give me a few dollars every month, and I will have some other friends do the same. If I su...