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OUR QUENCH CORRESPONDENT. 411
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IiXXIL—OUE FEEKCH CO-RESPONDENT.
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4> Jan. I9t7i, 1862. Never L/A.DIES was ...
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Has It Ever Occurred To Artists And Amat...
which . God has the key . "When He unlocks the portal of this rich treasury willing and , fortli open they to receive float upon them rap there id wings to germinate , and enter and all become minds
individualized in so far as they are , given forth through the human will - Let us earnestly hope that the present idea , wafted forth
as a winged seed from the hand of the Divine Sower , may have fallen , as good seed , into the fruitful soil of many hearts , and
_" bring forth fruit—some thirty , some sixty , some an hundred-fold . " All that I would now attempt is simply to draw attention to the
suggestion , and leave it in its present crude and undeveloped form to be received or rejected by those who have practical experience
of life in the sick wards of workhouses and hospitals . I would , however , inquire whether permission could _Tbe obtained
_ifroro . the proper authorities for the trial of the experiment what is the opinion of medical men regarding such an experiment ; and
whether a sufficient number of artists and amateurs could be induced to form themselves into a society for the purpose of
collecting and selecting suitable pictures , drawings , texts and hymns , and seeing them properly hung in the wards and occasionally
changed at certain periods ? A . M . H . W .
Our Quench Correspondent. 411
OUR _QUENCH CORRESPONDENT . 411
Iixxil—Oue Feekch Co-Respondent.
IiXXIL—OUE _FEEKCH _CO-RESPONDENT .
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4 _> Jan . I 9 t 7 i , 1862 . Never L / A . DIES was , Paris in a more unthinking mood than it is at present ;
and never had it greater reason to be serious . To say nothing about the financial difficultiesthe general distress is very great .
, The -workmen suffer ; tales of unspeakable horror are breathed about the workwomen * the tradespeople declare themselves to be
, on tlie eve of a general bankruptcy ; the woe-begone faces of the occupants of apartments are more than occasional witnesses of the
miseries' inflicted on them by a still further rise in rents ,, when thing of a "buyable or saleable naturesaving the barest
_necesevery saries of life , has a downward tendency in the , market . The unhappy rentpayers are literally forced from what maywithout exaggeration
, , be called the cellars on the rez-de-c / _iatcsee to the garrets formerly exclusively appropriated to servants at the head of six or seven
landings , by landlords who each seems the fullest prototype of the exacting Shylock . Indeed , they even surpass that celebrated and
unaniiable character in their flintiness of heart ; for , instead of demanding a single pound of fleshby reducing the pockets of their
, victims to such a low degree as they did on the 15 th instant , they strip their persons of the plump proportions or any tendencies
thereto which _tliey may have presented when their rent was lower than it now is and provision dealers' bills a little higher . But ,
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English Woman’s Journal (1858-1864), Feb. 1, 1862, page 411, in the Nineteenth-Century Serials Edition (2008; 2018) ncse.ac.uk/periodicals/ewj/issues/ewj_01021862/page/51/
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