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... KING EDWARD'S VISIT TO THE NEWMARKET WORKHOUSE King Edward visited the Newmarket Union Workhouse the other day and wrote a testimonial on its merits, which we reproduce above. The Standard relates the following incident in connection with his Majesty's ...
... Please, sir, I want some more. The scene in the workhouse, which Dickens drew with such ironic vividness and indignation, shoivs the waif Oliver pleading for more gruel from the stony-hearted workhouse master (Kenneth Downy) Don't Artful Dot picturesqu ...
... dying of starvation himself. But it is perhaps in the workhouse, the last refuge of those who have fallen by the way, that the whirligig is responsible for the most dramatic incidents. To the workhouse in Tanner Street, Bermondsey, there came for many years ...
... Gorumna, co. Galway, on May 2, 1796. He exercised his trade as a mason till three years ago, when he was forced to enter the workhouse. The Gaelic League opened a subscription for him, and last summer he was placed with a family in the town of Oughterard. ...
... and toys provided by the readers of the paper for dis tribution at Christmas among the children in the hospitals, workhouses, workhouse infirmaries, and Poor Law schools of the metropolis. Christmas Parcels The Great Eastern Railway Company has made complete ...
... Swimming on Dry Land. Workhouse or Prison.-- Some time ago a tramp called at a Bridewell in Surrey and asked the way to the nearest workhouse. A constable informed him that it was a mile off, whereupon the tramp replied, Oh this place will do me as well ...
... face and forehead, the colouring of the neck, the adjustment of the wig, and I am ready to ingratiate the master of the workhouse and, I hope, the playgoing public, as the partik'ler pet. MR. CYRIL MAUDE BEGINS HIS TRANSFORMATION THE PAINT STICK AT WOF ...
... attendant) SIR RUFUS AND LADY ISAACS Who were present on the occasion of Mr. John Burns opening an extension of the Reading Workhouse the other day. On the right of picture is seen Mr. Ernest Gardner ...
... him a letter stating their trouble, and informing him that if he did not come to their aid they would have to go into the workhouse. Weeks passed, but eventually there came a letter saying Dear Mither and Faither, Just wait another fort- nicht, an' I'll ...
... of other people's labour and renders it nugatory by abstracting from the wealth of society without adding to it. 0 0 0 Workhouses. T3y a careful analysis and substantiated by the final test of statistics the author of this most interesting book pre sents ...
... for his wife and five children. The wife is ill, and her illness is aggra vated by the thought she may have to enter the workhouse. 'T'he Royal Coun- ties Agricultural Society entrusted the arrangements for the fire protection o f the show, held at Reigate ...
... which is now opened. There is besides a large building called the Arbeitshaus which it would be misleading to translate as workhouse in which each artist has a separate atelier ar ranged after his own taste, where he may work surrounded by the beautiful ...