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I have been away from England for thiry years; I have been on the prairie in the West; I have come back to Landon I am seeing London with new yes, no
I arrived at Euston. I drove from Euston through Bloomsbary, through Rad Llon-street into Holborn. There I saw Bairey Gamp. At the corner I saw Bill Sikes, Pancks was collecting his rents, Puffing like a grampus. I saw Little Dorrit, looking into a fish shop,
They had the same clothes, or seemed to bave
They were the same people, or seemed to be
I was told all these years that I was far off dreaming of my London, putting haloes round it, that London and disap peared, that it was a city of marble Palaces that my old haunts back of the Law Courty had been torn down to make magnificent avenue called the Kingsway, which had been crashed through; that a busy,
bustling metropolitan highway had takon the place of the dark dingy courts. and alloyways.
UNCHANGED, UNCHANGING.
I come back. It is true that here and there I see that London has had a brush up and wash and a shave, but under those frills and embroideries I find my Dickens Pa Pa More
What is it? I have been in New York, where you only hear the English languago asa sidan dish. I come into London I bear bothing but English, London Eng lish, Dickens English!
I never knew why England was England until now."
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England is simply England because we are ur the same people that were here when Umur landed in 53 B. and remarked that these were a strange people; that they had habis and methods peculiarly their
Unsary I believe the first corres pondent whoever described the English. He said these pople had neither art for music nor literasure. He was wrong there; he ww nbsolutely right when he said that they had character.
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WHAT IS A WIFE WORTH?
The writer, a legal expert, has assessed the economic vales of a wifs in the fol lowing article.
"Five shillings! That's all she's worth.' This was the assessment de the 2ber day by a husband when required by the polico magistrate to provide an allowance for his wife.
Well, or codrie, it is just possible that this particular wife's vatte was not far above rubies," At the same time, the wife of & working man is usually the hardest Rorked and the Poores; pula of gli women workers was b
Let me figure this out. She is first of all, the housekeeper. In all wenthers sne buy, in the market the requirements of the household and carries her load home. She cleans the house from top to bottom, and everything within it. That is a job for which people nowadays demand at least £30 a year and board and lodging.
Then sh cook every atom of food con- sumed in the house. She does it mora- doon, and night, with no evenings Feople who take on that sort of job.are aking today anything from per anan, and live in TOI Then she is nurse to the children even when there are six, oven, or eight of them. What's that job worth to-day! I put it down as low as £30 and her board And lodging.
Further, she is needlewoman and tailor to the family in the happy hour when she can sit down for a while the is cutting out and making up and generally repair ing her husband's and children's clothes. How much is that worth ft Shall I say. £20 per anaum? And in the not also the laundress for the family 1
And how is she paid 1 As a rule, she is paid nothing ble is given no wages,
nor is she entitled to a fixed proportion
of her husband's earnings ?
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For her own personal needs she something off the small portion of the housekeeping money...
Commercially, hers is the poorest job
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Solomon therwise king said,
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