are children, it is probable that one in every three
London adults will be driven into one of these
refuges to die, and the proportion in the case of the
manual labor class must of course be still larger."

These figures serve somewhat to indicate the prox
imity of the average worker to pauperism. Various
things make pauperism. An advertisement, for in
stance, such as this, appearing in yesterday morning s
paper: " Clerk wanted, with knowledge of shorthand,
typewriting, and invoicing; wages ten shillings ($2.50)
a week. Apply by letter," etc. And in today s paper
I read of a clerk, thirty-five years of age and an inmate
of a London workhouse, brought before a maoqs-
trate for non-performance of task. He claimed that
he had done his various tasks since he had been an
inmate; but when the master set him to breaking
stones, his hands blistered, and he could not finish
the task. He had never been used to an imple
ment heavier than a pen, he said. The magistrate
sentenced him and his blistered hands to seven
days hard labor.

Old age, of course, makes pauperism. And then
there is the accident, the thing happening, the death
or disablement of the husband, father, and bread
winner. Here is a man, with a wife and three
children, living on the ticklish security of twenty
shillings ($5.00) per week and there are hundreds
of thousands of such families in London. Perforce,

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