Roosevelt Standard | 1922-07-26 | Page 8 | Great Charity Day in England

great charity day in england throughout nil england maundy thursday Is a great public charity day and baskets of food are riven given to the poor curiously exact and careful records of these benefactions bene factions have been kept the kings took care to have the number of beggars served each year and the precise extent ot of the charity bestowed set down in detail deball it was the custom to have as many beggars come to the palace as the sovereign was years old when their feet had bad been washed the king gave each a gift of money and meat and clothes before the royal hands so much as touched the towels however the plebeian feet were well scrubbed by the yeomen of the laundry perfumed and turned over to the who had charge of the gifts and by him scrubbed again the third pair of hands that went through the display of humility were those of the monarch himself