Top illustration: "Please turn you head away. Don't look—don't!" (
The Quiver, 1886).
Bottom illustration: "The rejected alms." (
The Letters of Charles Dickens, 1893.)
We find an explanation in
Frank Crane's Just Human (1915): "Most so-called charity is evil. It is bad both ways. It deceives the giver by a false salve to his conscience. ... The gift is also a curse to the recipient. It destroys self-respect. Both takers and givers of charity are debased."