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THE PLIGHT TO WHICH THE WAR HAS ... EDUCED AUSTRIA AND HER NEIGHBOURS: POIGNANT PICTURES TAKEN EXCLUSIVELY FOR ..

... SCHOOL IN VIENNA by the Nuns who are in char e of their education. FOODLESS MEN BEING SUPPLIED WITH SUSTENANCE in one of the workhouses in the Austrian capital. FORAGING FOR FOOD IN VIENNA Searching the rubbish in the market. POOR CHILDREN AND THE PICTURE ...

Published: Saturday 20 March 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 310 | Page: 25 | Tags: Photographs 

MOTORING AND AVIATION

... new standardised road signals are to be put up at the same time. Really these Ministries will, put us all in Bedlam or the workhouse. They ^re all bent on doing their bit at our expense at the same time and in the most summary fashion, and we will have to ...

Published: Saturday 15 January 1921
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 403 | Page: 34 | Tags: Photographs 

The PRINCESS CHRISTIAN FARM COLONY for the FEEBLE-MINDED

... irre sponsible men and women and youths and girls These unfortunate people help to multiply the unfit and fill our prisons, workhouses, and rescue homes. It may be recalled that the Royal Commission upon the Feeble-minded in 1908, reported that there were ...

Published: Saturday 19 August 1911
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 638 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs 

THE MYSTERY OF THE TAXED BOOKMAKER

... will pay all taxes up to a £5 bet. And as they have told us that this is impossible, and that they will be driven to the workhouse by such a concession, this is an astounding volte face and must injure the cause of the majority. For what is possible with ...

Published: Saturday 26 February 1927
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 908 | Page: 19 | Tags: Photographs 

One Aspect of Rebuilding Belgium

... worse many insane asylums had been destroyed or requisitioned by the enemy, and their inmates sent provisionally to the work-houses of Hoogstraete and Merxplas, where, huddled together, without discrimination, were prisoners, invalids, juvenile offenders ...

Published: Saturday 02 October 1920
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 841 | Page: 8 | Tags: Photographs 

The NEW HOUSEKEEPING

... not enough jobs to go round. There always are for the efficient. It is the inefficient and their dependents who people our workhouses an hospitals, and it is the State, and the efficient through the State, that pay for their ineptitude. Who is going to pay ...

Published: Saturday 18 March 1916
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1069 | Page: 28 | Tags: Photographs 

IRISH DRAMA IN LONDON: Characteristics of the Celtic Revival

... I do not care about her work, particularly when she is in a romantic mood but in such comedies as Hyacinth Halvey or The Workhouse Ward she is inimitable, and she knows her Irish people through and through. Hyacinth Halvey is a young man cursed with a ...

Published: Saturday 19 June 1909
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1012 | Page: 30 | Tags: Photographs 

The Land of Nowadays

... shall never go on at this rate is the general cry. If things don't improve I shall find myself ornament ing a friendly old workhouse this time next year. ^^r, meeting a friend in the street, we button hole him, and groan, If I'd only realised how well-off ...

Published: Monday 23 November 1914
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 916 | Page: 10 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY OF THE WORLD

... only sad it is a revelation of the supposed strength of family feeling. Out of 528 old men and women entitled to leave a workhouse on old age pensions, only thirty-seven were sure that they would be welcomed by relatives. As a matter of fact, Miss Sellers ...

Published: Saturday 02 April 1910
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1032 | Page: 3 | Tags: Photographs 

THE WAY of THE WAR

... wards dragging out a miserable existence in the factory, subsidised in his old age by charity concerts, and dying in the workhouse. The war has had an effect exactly opposite to that expected by our doctrinaire conscriptionists, for it has given the pawns ...

Published: Saturday 02 February 1918
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1149 | Page: 4 | Tags: Photographs 

A PICTURE GALLERY OF INTERESTING WOMEN

... novel. She was born about 1790, in a fisherman' s hut at St. Helens, in the Isle of Wight, and was educated at the New port workhouse. She was then taken up by the Due de Bourbon, Prince of Condi (1756-1830), and remained his lifelong asso ciate, although ...

Published: Saturday 18 November 1911
Newspaper: Graphic
County: London, England
Type: | Words: 1079 | Page: 22 | Tags: Photographs