MR SALA AT NAZARETH HOUSE.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume IX, Issue 2524, 14 February 1887, Page 2

MR SALA AT NAZARETH HOUSE.

,:;In his " Bbhoes. of tHe Weet" in.-.' • ; the Illustrated London News • : 1R visit to some old frieno of •• •ral'ltWe Nuns of Nazareth Hose, • •< ''Hammersmith. TM^goodsis^g,'. as many. of my be awae,*shelter, feed, -babyhood to flixteen years, trained to be domestic servants. ftlM nursery governesses ;| and when thflß leave Nazareth House situationadHß found for them. In additipn to &eJS| girls,the Ntob entirely.snpporlaboiS| 200 aged and infirm irirn indlwomaaß wliom they nurse aud y d wiWßipin Sampan kindness; To proyfta wH the Njms aie said jiio&BsMtly r -to .togfl They never ask for alms or money® .but ffiey will be grateful for subwrijJß tiofts. aud quite ae grateful too, ira| donations in kind—broken she, beer, old clothes, periodicals, boots and shoes, - :bod-linen, bedding, coals, loffipimk and toyfL_liid not go to Hammed smith onSaturday to view the premises. . I had Veen them before ; but I . wished .to see the soup kitohens which the" sisters have opened, and see the • rioontido distribution of soup to outside poor, wHo have only to knook at the wicket 6f Nazareth House and ei> hibit their famished visages to be id« mitted and fed. I wish thats could have taken Mr Luke Filde&™,R,A l( . of "Mr Ca.tpn Woodville, or Fred Barnard. with- me. Their pencils might have given you some idea of the doleful yet comforting spectacle which' I beheld. 'Scores ; upon scores of ragged and pallid men, women and children, from dotards of seventy to urchins'of seven, ravenously devouring the soup and bread served out to them by .the kindly Sisters. Go to Nazareth-house, Pomp, and see. the soup served out to the outsiders; am . take physio, Pomp, before you go I ■