Rock Island daily Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1886-1893, 1890-07-19
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Special Cores ondence to the ARGUS:
LONDON. July 1.-The weather in
London for ten days past has been some>
thing dreadful-cold rains every day,
with slight fall of snow last Saturday
morning. The town is full of visitors
from all parts of the kingdom-in fact,
all parts of the world. "The Season"
here means great deal to those tina:
NJ 10 not familiar with IL would imagine
streets filled with people all day and all
night, theatres and concerts crowded.
public meetings, political and social,
charity organizations holding their meet
ings. twenty deep daily. receptions. balls.
dinners and luncheons, royalty going
hither and tnither in what would .eem 10
an outsider endless confusion. 1t is the
harvest time of tradesmen, and the shops
all seem to have their entire stocks ex
posed In the windows and on the walks
Riches aud poverty are jumbled to-
gether. and at any time one sees the mos
startling illustrations of each state of
life. A walk through Seven Dials Sat-
urday disclosed the most marvellous ex
hibitiops of low life on big scale-rag
and junk shops. small meal stalls, stands
for sale of cats meats, of horse flesh.
hundreds of children in rags and dir,
women smelling so strong of gin. men in
tatters, literally. stupidity british with
beer and GIN hurdY gurdys and monkeys,
bird stores and dog stOres-the cries and
shouts of the popuace-as are lntelligi>
BILE To your correspondent. as though it
were Hindoostsnce. Foreigners in every
variety OF cOstume-sOme closely allied
TO that of nature. especially children
and all in the midst OF cold rains and fog.
Surely no other city in the world can ex-
hibit such contrasts of extreme wealth
and poverty in such limited areas as Lon-
don. and within the distance of a stones
throw one can witness both extremes.
The Church of England is doing won
ders in the way of alleviation of all the
misery of the city, but il is so inbred that
wears of effort and millions of money will
be required to make any permanent
change. visited last week the eat
Sisterhood of ST. Augus:ines, Kolburn-
the largest in the kingdom but one and
| doing moe work than any other. TWEEN
ty thousand children of the or are under
the instruction of these good women.
They have $50 full orphans under their
care all the time. taking them al
six years of age and keeping them
till they Are twenty, teaching them
according 10 their capacity a.,
kinds of Homework. embroidery. etc,
and finding them places. when they leave
as house servants and in various cspaci.
ties. Enormous buildings of brick with
every modern convenience. mostly built
with the money of their good women ant
supported by voluntary donations in al
dition To their own funds. There are
| scores OF such houses in the kingdom in.
GLIDING thousands of sisters DEVOTED &c
every kind of benevolent work schools
orphanages. penitentiaries, homes fol
convslescents. hospitals, etc. Each par
ish has its own sisters for visiting and
nursing, etc. in addition, and visit to
these Ct enters of christian industry opens
up to one a train of thought which re,
| calls all the devotion of the early DAYS OF
| christianity, when men and women CAV,
not merely their substance, but them
selves also for the work of the Lord
through his gospel. No wonder tn,
church of England has taken such firm
| hold of the popular mind in these latter
days.
write under difficulty. having been
confined to my room for two days with
acute rheumatism. r F. s.