It may go as far as feather-beds and winter fires for the aged; nay, it may advance to some economical form of teeth-brushes, and still demand no more sacrifice from its people than is constantly demanded of us to maintain our poor in a humbler way.

Then there are certain prudential considerations--certain, I might almost say, moral considerations--which are to be taken into account.

It will never do, in a town like ours, to make pauperism attractive--to make our pauper establishments comfortable asylums for idleness.

It must, in some way, be made to seem a hardship to go to the poor-house." "Well, Sevenoaks has taken care of that with a vengeance," burst out Miss Butterworth.
"Excuse me, Miss Butterworth; let me repeat, that it must be made to seem a hardship to go to the poor-house.

Let us say that we have accomplished this very desirable result.