Midhurst, his Majesty laid the foundation stone of a new Sanatorium for the Treatment of Tuberculosis. The idea'-is that it shall not be for the treatment: of the very poor, nor yet for the rich, who of distinct traces of morphia, and taking into consideration the length of time which h: 10 can easily afford to pay the £5 5s. a week usually charged at these establishments. elapsed between her death and the finding of her body he is of opinion that a very It is to be plainly but comfortably built large quantity must have been injected. and fitted up and to supply a want greatly felt—a Sanatorium for those who are As it is known that a few days before her death she "o' only purchased a quantity of not paupers and yet can only afford to morphia but called for a small injecting Pay quite a little and who long for the syringe of hers which she had left to be chance of being cured. 16 seems to me repaired, and that asyringe—which may or people of this class are 0 badly catered may not have been the one in questiou—and for in this.country. If you are il! and an empty phial, were found quite near her Fich you can do endless things, if you body shortly after it was discovered, it are ill and of the lower working class seems more than probable that suicide is you can go to a hospital and constantly the true solution of the mystery. The letter you will receive the most killed troat-received just before she left the hospital ment entirely free of charge, but if you has been found and turns out to be quite are poor gentle people who don't desire unimportant, so the reason for the act charity but can only spare very little—if it was committed—is still unknown, money there seems nowhere to go. To Hospital Shopping Day. poor governesses, clerks in offices, and A new scheme for adding to the funds hundreds of other people of the same. doss, institutions of this kind would be the London Hospitals has been tried this week. Whether its sueees" has cen an incalculable boon—it is' only to be as great as was hoped for by its promoters hoped this is only the first of many which is not yet known, as it must take some may shortly be scattered over the coun-little time for all the contributions to be gathered in. It eccurredto the authorities connected with the King's Hospital fund that if shops could give handsome (Rest oUR OWS coRREsroxDENt.) contributions towards the furnishing of stalls for bazaars—ns they constantly do—probably, if the matter were.put before 13th November, them, they would be equally' willing to The Lord Mayor's Show. give a certain proportion of their takins, Tames, Ritchio's experiment of on a given day in each year, as a donation dropping, the circus element out..of the towards the funds of the London Hospi Lord Mayor's show and making it in the tals. The project was talked over, and main a military procession has been justi-although some shopkeepers—mainly direct fie! by the result. Though the day was ors of the large drapery establishments—gloomy-and threatening in -the morning, objected to the idea, it was generally well received and was in-augurated last Tusedeys and though its threat was fulfilled by a very heavy shower just as the: old gilt whether it will become a yearly institution chariot was approaching: the Law Courts, will, I suppose, depend principally on the th" route of the procession was quite as shopkeepers themselves, as naturally the closely thronged with sightseers as it usnal-Hospitals Is will be pleased to. receive ly ison Lord Mayor's Day. Apart from the any amounts sent in. I hear that {civil carriages with their gorgeous flunkies some shops own to doing quite aril the banners of the livery companies double their ordinary amount of business and at least one draper who had laid in stock of toys for the Christmas trade sold nearly all of them in the one day. I have always considered it somewhat hard on shopkeepers that so-many bazaars and sales of work are held a few weeks before Christmas, as it must interfere considerably with their legitimate trade. It shopkeepers hold charity sales, bazaars will suffer, as purses are but limited after all.
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