The Stourbridge Observer, Cradley Heath, Halesowen & District Chronicle.
Stourbridge, West Midlands, England, 1871-09-02 00:00:00

THE DUTY OF CLEANLINESS.

We preach to the is sa- the duty of cleanliness. lot
we are apt to forget that it is almost inqmssible for
them to fidlow the precepts We endeavour to impress
upon them (says the Ihr:rt,c). Cleanliness is
in truth a luxury which only a favoured few can
enjoy. Even the middle class in this country live in a
state of uncleanliness vvhich Wi mid shock the educated
111111, to whom life well be intolerable without his
bath every morning. :ihopmen, for instance, who live
in the houses of their employers, have no idea of a
diurnal washing, and as for the working-classes, pro-
bably not .tne in a thollsand is thoroughly immersell in
Ay:der once in a year. The arrangemonts for washing
vi 'then are even still more imperfect than those for
washing 1-,lie, and tssnomy in laundry bills is an
nbßlthlte In:CV:WRY to many respectable families, who
with every desire to live like CM istians, find them-
”elYrs utterly unable to Mow the expenses consequent
ou cleanliness. In fact, few r-forms are more urgently
netsk,l in this country than laundry reform, which will
never be effected until some style of dress Incomes
fashionable width does not necessitate uny more ela-
borate process than that of shnple washing at home.
It is the starching and ironing and "getting up" linen
which makes washing so costly and prevents people
(rum establishing a laundry in their houses.

must be impressed on the stitch and upon the heart of every
freeman, of whatever condition he be, front the very
highest to the very lowest, that true liberty consists
in self-restraint—that true liberty consists in that prin-
ciple of iuternal self-control which makes a man know his
own rigida mid also respect the rights of others. (Applause).
That being implanted in the heart id large masses of the
People Cm: people were hit for Manly ; that people would be
a great example of freedom ; tint people would be the great
conservative principle of the earth : that people would he
glorious for the bake of themselves because they wished to
see the same glory and the same safety it. others. (Applause.)
Ho would not detain them forther by any probowd tat_
dress. Ile wool.) repeat that he felt very deeply that honour
to which they had pronaded trim. atul he was deliti.hted
with the permission tot aiMress them as his fellow-citizens,
and to soy he accepted with joy and gratitude the power
to deal animus theta told carry on any occupation he might
think ite“,,fary hr his own advantage or for the benefit of
the gloat count:unity of which he was a member. Ile WaA
now geiling on in life, and there could be little time at Ids
it;.;e to indulge it, anything whiell might lead him into
t,lntAnt ion or turn him front the path of fluty in which lo;
had V.,:kell; lint he hoped and prayed that, whatever might
happen, he Might nover do or say anything which would
bring oiisowee cm the honourable position he had note
attained of being a citizen of that groat, tree, and noble
cum:milky. (Applause.)
Lord Lawrence, in propising a vote of Maas to Um Lord
Provost, sari that if anything could ioht to the homior aud
emlit of the Glasgow Corporation it would be the introduc-
tion of 6111d1 a Mall as Lord Shatteslimy into their number.
A man whose whole If,, had been passed is helping the
frillidleSS Ulla homeless.
The company then separated.

At the close of the civic ceremonial, and after lun-
cheon, the noble earl proceeded to Lenzie Junction,
about seven miles distant, where he laid the fouuda-
tion-stone of a new convalescent hospital.