... Again, the desirability for ladies of discretion and tact to visit the aged and infirm in workhouses has long been urged; but although for a while a Workhouse Visiting Society existed, and the subject has from time to time been brought forward, it is ...

... fancy sketch which Dickens drew of workhouse manage. ment, and which, dragged out into the glare of day by his inimitable hand, shrivelled up, ashamed. Those days of horror are over, thank heaven ! The modern workhouse is far from perfect; its martinet ...

... new development of this famous plan has arisen out of the practice of some Nationalist Boards of Guardians in providing in workhouses wards of honour for evicted tenants, who receive much better fare than that of the ordinary inmates. For this pro- ceeding ...

... is at liberty to doff the workhouse livery and go back to the city. In this way great numbers of people are helped very materially. Would not this idea be worth an experiment in Great Britain ? The obnoxious word workhouse might even be avoided, and ...

... as well as the State, and the stigma of poverty and shame, so deplorably present in a- workhouse, be thus removed. The natural repulsion of the poor for the workhouse, which causes the d&serving to starve sooner than enter its hated portals, comes from ...

... towns, those taking part in the processions were principally female children belonging to the workhouses, who discarded for the nonce their customary workhouse attire, and appeared neatly dressed in white, decorated with various coloured ribbons, chiefly ...

... much richer harvest of fresh Christians l' ail ?? to the prayies of their new patrons. \ I Cot INT vwas made against the workhouse Ai t tile hast mcetinig of the liorsham Board of Guardians, 1 1 , snl Itt had, in adminiistering the Sacrament to one of ...

... 769,721I. DR. O'CONNOR, the medical officer of St. George's-in-the-East Workhouse, died suddenly on Monday under painful circum- stances. He had charged the matron of the workhouse with impro- priety of conduct, and she retorted with similar charges affecting ...

... more considerately treated than they used to be. Still cases occur which show that workhouse discipline is not a whit too gentle. Four paupers from Wandsworth Workhouse were brought up before the magistrate charged with refusing to work on the crank, pumping ...

... gifts for the poor, the maimed, the halt, the sick, the old, and the blind, whose lives might still be cheered in hospital, workhouse, anl school. CARDINAL MANNING issued last week a circular letter on the urgent claims of the very poor at this season of ...

... in Scotland, and to some good extent in England, a blessing to pauper orphans, by removing them from all connection with workhouse influence, and giving them a healthy natural interest in a house which they can call IIhome. It will be found on inquiry ...

... work. house.at Uxxoter. The mother-bird sits quietly on her seven eggs without showing any fear of disturbance, and the workhouse officials so admire her courage that they have asked the postman not to put any letters in the box till the brood is hatched ...