| Show JIOW LIVE kive IN ENGLAND i the london of tb the e new york times limes gives a meat moat deplorable picture of the poor of the large cities of england millions Million of people ifeng in england live almost entirely upon bakers bakera bread here for example is the way of life of a bober hard wor work k english man who earns a week say gold standard and has hat a wife and six children he neither drinks nor smokes and hands over his whole wages to his wife this is a common practice in well ordered families she pays 43 a week for rent Is for coals candles soap boap ete etc ad a peny a week each for the six children to a burial club ad on a doctors bill due Is ls here are as ad of the iss gone and nothing to eat now the bill of fare for those eight persons one pound of bread a day for each the children scarcely taste anything else comes to as a week twenty pounds of potatoes ad one pound of butchers meat on sunday and two pounds of salt pork for week days 23 one pound sugar half pound butter one ounce tea make up the week weeks a account no milk no fruit no clothing the only way they can have that is for the children to get work or die then something would pome in from the burial club thousands and thousands of men work hard for two thirds of these wage wages sor or less plenty even in large towns work for a week thousands cannot taste even the sunday meat dinner great numbers never taste butter they get a little dripping as a substitute in a london shop on a saturday night you yon wallsee will see great heaps of penny and halfpenny packets of tea and pennyworths penny of brown sugar ready done up for people of moderate incomes I 1 once had the curiosity to buy a halfpenny half penny packet ot of tea a cents worth it resembled musty clover hayand a decoction tasted as you might fancy droppings drippings drip pings from a heap of dead leaves to taste at the end of a hard winter an atom of water sometimes sometimes makes a great difference in the properties of bodies thus the addition bf water to starch concerts it into sugar bugar the subtraction of an atom of water from alcohol converts it into ether but the most curious change made by the removal of an atom of water from a body has been recently discovered morphia is commonly used to delay vomiting but when morphia has been heated 1 I with acid and an atom of water thereby removed itis ic is changed into the most active emetic known |
