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His good genius prompted him to refer casually to soup-kitchens. Now soup-kitchens were the delight of Miss Gould's heart; toward the establishment of a soup-kitchen she had looked since the day when her father's death had left her the double legacy of his worldly goods and his unworldly philanthropy.
You know what it is like: soup-kitchens, mothers' meeting, coal-tickets, reading aloud to the children, rushing about from this place to the other trying to help those who cannot help themselves. It will do you good, Lucy, and of course you shall come." Lessons were not to begin until the following morning, and the six boarders were feeling in consequence a trifle disconsolate.
With all due respect for Red Cross soup, and the most implicit confidence in Red Cross soup-kitchens, I inclined to the belief that I should fare better if I got my nourishment from the State of Texas even at the end of a string than if I went to the Cuban soup-kitchen and claimed food as a reconcentrado, a refugee, or a repentant prodigal son.
Where are your feelings, my boy? Why don't you cry?" "Charming picture, General! Charming! but my handkerchief is fresh, and I must save it. I may have a cold before night." "Well, now, Toll, what's the thing to be done?" "What do you say to soup-kitchens for the poor? They don't cost so very much, and you get your name in the papers." "Soup-kitchens be hanged! That's Mrs. Belcher's job.
But still he attended the relief committees, and worked at the soup-kitchens attached to the estate, as though he were still the agent to Castle Richmond; and still debated warmly with Father Barney on one side, and Mr. Townsend on the other, on that vexatious question of out-door relief.
Their attention was directed to the necessity for the immediate establishment of soup-kitchens, the employment of women in knitting, and the formation of local committees for their relief, extending over several parishes. We visited the poorhouse at Glenties, which is in a dreadful state; the people were in fact half starved and only half clothed.
The Red Cross furnished food in bulk to thirty-two thousand half-starved people in the first five days after Santiago surrendered, and in addition thereto fed ten thousand people every day in the soup-kitchens managed by Mr. Michelson.
'To what purpose is this waste? Why do you not spend your money upon technical schools, soup-kitchens, housing of the poor, and the like? Well, our answer is, 'He told us. We hear, too, especially just in these days, a great deal about the necessity for increased caution in pursuing missionary operations in heathen lands.
Traill Hall Captain Caffin's narrative Soup-kitchens Officials concealing the state of the people Provision for burying the dead The boat's crew at a funeral. State of Dingle. Father Mathew's evidence.
Almost the earliest of the private soup-kitchens for the relief of the sufferers was that opened at Dingle under the joint initiative of Lady Ventry, Mrs. Hickson, my future mother-in-law, and Mrs. Hussey, my mother. So as not to pauperise the people, subscriptions of one penny a week were asked from every house in the town.
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