WHERE YOU CAN LIVE FOR NOTHING

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 238, 13 November 1909, Page 6

WHERE YOU CAN LIVE FOR NOTHING

TOWNS THAT riiuVlDE FHKK " HOARD AXD LUDdIXO. There are many places m the won 1 where impecunious wanderers and others are supplied for the asking wail lodgings, dinners, and money, gratis, and lor nothing. Jl is not generally known that Ike authorities oi Samoa, ihe little inland upon which Robert Louis Stevenson lived and died, provide board and lodging absolutely free lo strangers who are un able u r unwilling to pay tor their keep, livery village on me island has a guesthouse, caller a "Falelale," and here the tourist is invited lo come and be ful. lodged, and entertained without any payment .whatever.

iJAVAHIA THE IiUf.NTU'IL. ri'Jic ollicials of lbi' town of Winger-bcrg-un-Uk-Mam, in Jiaviiria, are exceptionally generous, for they not on y provide lice beds and free board fopoor people, tint give away big every year ejid to all who ask tor them. klingenberg owns several pottery-clay pits thai bring in so much money to the town eoll'crs unit they .pay all the town expense.-, and leave a good round sum over, wliielt is distributed in charily. Klingenberg is one of the few places whore rales aaid taxes are unknown. Free hotels and free places of amuse inont are comparatively common at Orb, ill Austria, and at certain times of the year small sums of money can be hid lor nothing on application to the oili cials at the town hall.

Several railway companies in Kussia have distinguished themselves by providing meals gratis to their passengers, in St. Petersburg there is a small hotel, the property of a railway company, where railway travellers are lodged aiil boarded free of charge.

FREE FLOWERS AND FREE BEER. Some railway companies in the States provide bouquets for nothing. Many of the railway companies in, America "possess flower-gardens bordering on their lines, and the produce of these are distributed now and again among the passengers.

Oodstonc, in Surrey, is unfed for its generosity, iuthis'pn.t. time tow-u the weary wanderer is supplied with iree soup between the months of November and April. .\m\ on mere Siim!a\ throughout ihe year he van'secure a tut of fresh i.stsi beef on applying t.i the proper quarter. ' "

-Norwich is very charitably disposed. On three specified day* in I lit! year anyone may claim a substantial meal, cu/i

sisting of soup, roast beef, potatoes. Siccus, and a jug of ale, for nothing, The only qualification for it is that til 1 applicant shall repent aloud in St. dies' Church a prayer for the health of tie reigning King and Queen.

"I'OOB PKOPU' HOARDED [[KliK." Rochester, iii Ki-ni. lins, or tisi-it to have, mi hotel where penniless foil; cm get a supper, n nielli's lodging, and four, pence On their departure nest morning. This house of welcome has lieen imuio"l.ilised hy Charles Dickens.

Another hotel where the homeless mil iui|ieeiinioiiK can net free meal and lodging is sitnaleil at t'oleshill, in Wnruieiishire. \"n one is paid for accepting ijs hospitnlily. as is the case with the lioehester hotel.

MARIiIKD AND JItIRIED WITIKUT COOT. At churches in various parts of the country loving couples are nmrried free of cost on certain davs of (he voMi-, while the town of S'loplon loir'' a-n made provision for free funerals. IVo|~!. who cannot afl'onl to pay an 1111 'orhiker to lvnry their deceased relatives are visited hy the town officials, who see en lively to (he funerals. Moreover, it is said the mourners are provided wilh a loaf, a piece of clieese, and four mians of heer.

The finvmiiiienl of India issued an order a long (hue ~,,„ (),.,( Uv,..,,,-,,;,, packages of ouiniue would he „nl',| a', rural ,io>( olliees at a farlhiii" apiece mill Ihal (hose who needed a,,,) ~M IM not. afford l« pnrchu--:- Ihe quinine wuii-d he granted it free. Quinine U Ihe 11104 essential medicine for the natives and the Government, at a loss, hnuodit Ihe supply wilhin (he reach of (1,7, V erv poorest. At one li,„„ Ti,.li„ ha t \ (o import Csn,(lflfl worth of ,p,i„i„e every year, hul now the cullivalion of U,'«\ plmit is carried on larg.lv in that country.—Tlouie paper.