Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1901-01-12

yard at Camberweu every Sunday forever.
To the sexton who dealt out the loaves the
further commissioned the several church
Wardens who had the trouble of looking
after the dole to draw enough pay to buy
eaGh or them pair of gloves.
ne Will commanded that after getting
their tuppenny loaf the six poor men and
women. should they be well. and have no
convenient let (Which must have meant
IN those times an appointment, must come
their benefactor's father, and kneeling
should repeat the Lords Prayer, and pray
LOT the reigning king and queen, land for
no one else" Good Sir Thomas particularly
speclhed that the poor people chosen should
be honest and of good conversation The
fifty-three shillings and fourpence is still
coming in, and the bread still being given
out every Sunday, but the old ceremony
own gloves row. and the extra sixteen
pence upon which Sir Thomas dwelt so
lovingly, goes now into a prosaic general
donation fund.-
His Wedding Lottery.
This pious old fellow had a contemporary
In one Henry Raine. Raine built a charity
school in 1719, over the door of which he
had chiseled this inscription: Come in and
learn your duty to God and man.! This
school. which is still turning out scholars,
became famous in London because of an
connection with it. In one part of his
school he trained girls to be servants, and
round them place afterward, and he or
dained in his will that every such GIRL
when she got ready to marry, should have
chance to win $500 to begin on. On a GER
tain day IN November as many Of the
alumnae of the school as were entertaining
thoughts OF matrimony accordingly gath
cred every year in of the old class
rooms and drew lots for the money out Of
an Old tin tea canister. There were only
two condtfions-one that the girl could
snow credentials testifying to her good
character, the other that she could produce
a prospective husband who should meet
with the approval of the governors of the
school
Had to Try Six Times.
The drawing, which was discontinued in
1892 used to be a great occasion in the
parish of s.. George in the-E East. where
the school stands. for there was no end of
odd Tignarole about the drawing from the
old canister, which can still be viewed
and when the wedding came 'round-it was
always on May day-there was a procession
to the church composed of all the children
OF the school, and banquet afterward.
when the blushing bride got her one hun
dred golden sovereigns in knitted silk
purse.
Sometimes. however, the girl who drew
the prize didn't get it. for occasionally she
was not able to produce" the necessary
prospective interior ndlf, ana frequently the
governors deprecated the choice Of the win
ming damsel, and refused to let the money
go to bless the union. But a girl could try
FOR the prize as many times running as she
chose until she captured 1t. The records
tell a story of one determined young woma n
who gathered In her dowry after six at
tempts. and as she promptly got married.
the assumption Is that her swain was no
butterfly sutton.
A bishop of Henry Wits time had also
a fancy to encourage natrimony in this
way. He lived until he was 1G8, and al
though promoted to the see Of Exeter
never forgot his native village Of Sutton
Coldtield. and when he died invested enough
of his fortune TO yield an annual interest Of
$500 to be divided among four poor girls
who had been married in each year preced-
ing the day Of the bequest, which was
May l.
The Lion Sermon.
Many and many were the perpetual SER
mons arranged for by the last Wills and
testaments of the good folk of those times
and most of them are still being preached