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Show Xa Unfortunate Virounirst. The death of the unfortunate Viscountess KIncsland untied a life of viclstJtude. She was married in 1319 to Viscount JCIngsland, the needy representative of an old title. At his death she fell Into the greatest poverty and occupied a small room Jn a back street of Lambeth, with hardly any furniture. By making shirts at 'Si. apleco she managed to earn from 2s. to 3s. per w eek. For nearly twenty years she continued her employment of shlrtrnaklug. receiving re-ceiving occasionally (out door relief from the parish. When the was T9 she applied to the University Beneficent Bene-ficent society for aid. The committee com-mittee immediately mado her an allowance of 10-. jr week, and eventually secured for her a gift of 1 00 from the rojal bounty fund. Afterwards a special subscription was rained and a government pension pen-sion of 50 a year purchased for her, so that the lost ears of her checkered checker-ed existence was passed in comiara-tl comiara-tl ve com'ort. -fcr. |