... letter, stating the facts about Mrs. Anson’s death. I suppose the boy is tlhe workhouse?*’ “Who knows often beats to tell what becomes the kids who are left alone in London. Poor little devils, they mostly the bad. Thera should be some means looking after ...

... curious position affairs has arisen at the workhouse Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. A short time ago Mr. Stanley Bimrose (sou of the Spalding Workhouse Master) was appointed Master of the Wisbech Workhouse, on the understanding that in the event of a vacancy ...

... 1o life, and was about to-be taken tbe Workhouse Infirmary, a tall, handsome man pushed his way through the. small crowd of idlers gathered round the cub waiting before the door of her lodgings Aaron’s Buildings; and his eyes fell on the frail form of ...

... EDITED LILLIE lIAGRIS. OUR REGENT EXHiBSTION. Birpt-nsary. Workhouse, Jlyolew.!! W ...

... most lavish fashion, the poor rate is going up leaps and bounds, and already the cost per head in workhouses is £27 12s. lOd. a year—in London workhouses £35 11s. 7Jd. To think that these miserable old men and women cost their follows on an average £27 ...

... 1917. Being girl of wit, she curbed her tongue when the Colonel returned. But she took eariy opportumty of visiting the workhouse herself, and studying at first hand the conditions of the older oauoer* and of the infirm. What she learned there made heJ ...

... Macdonald land Samuel Slack, inmates of the Fir Vale Workhouse, were sammoned for not doing their proper task oakum picking the 19th inat. Ten days' hard labour.— Wm. Smith, also on inmate of the workhouse , named, was summoned for destroying two rues belonging ...

... match between Ireland and Wales, played at Limerick last March. Tne grounds where the match took place were quite close to workhouse, and one of the paupers, a half simpleton, happened somehow to be amongst the spectators. Never seeing the game before he ...

... wards of our workhouses (says “The Hospital” ).„is sufficient to make .it plain enough that no amount of pension would give to the old and infirm the help and comfort which, even under the present regime, they now receive within some workhouses. is hut little ...

... * * * Probably the most comfortable workhouse in the Midland counties is that at Winson Green, Birmingham. One cause of this (says the Birmingham Mail ) is that a few years ago foreign meat was supphed to the inmates, and this generally was boiled. Now ...

... the REVIEW OP REVIEWS. November 1890, is of interest to every smoker: THE PIPE IN THE WORKHOUSE.—The picture drawn our Helper of the poor old man in the workhouse, puffing away at an empty pipe, has touched the hearts of some of our correspondents One ...

... managed to persuade a visitor to the workhouse to take it out and post it for him. And this is the letter that was delivered to Mr. Darwin, of the Dovecot, next morning: Honoured Sir, They call me Jack March. I’m a workhouse lad, but. Sir. I’m a good one. and ...