Sunlight and shadow; . asts in Edinburgh — Seventeen Hundred Victims ofDrink—We get Hot Victuals at Home — Ducks and GreenPeas — Good Times turned to Hard Times — Extravaganceof the Poor — Satire of Punch — The Irish Famine — Distilleriesat Work — Irish Distress, Irish Drinking — Burton-on-Trent —Basss Beer-Mills —Basss Annual Beer-Profits £450,000 — The DrinkBill — London Paper upon Mr. Bass, T has been the custom for years to pro-vide a breakfast of bread and cocoa onSunday mornings at the Field Lane In-stitution in London for the waifs who,sleeping in the casual wards of theworkhouse,
Sunlight and shadow; . asts in Edinburgh — Seventeen Hundred Victims ofDrink—We get Hot Victuals at Home — Ducks and GreenPeas — Good Times turned to Hard Times — Extravaganceof the Poor — Satire of Punch — The Irish Famine — Distilleriesat Work — Irish Distress, Irish Drinking — Burton-on-Trent —Basss Beer-Mills —Basss Annual Beer-Profits £450,000 — The DrinkBill — London Paper upon Mr. Bass, T has been the custom for years to pro-vide a breakfast of bread and cocoa onSunday mornings at the Field Lane In-stitution in London for the waifs who,sleeping in the casual wards of theworkhouse, are literally without houseor home; and the large room, capable ofseating seven or eight hundred persons,is generally crowded. They are admittedabout ten oclock. A simple religious exercise lastingan hour is closed soon after twelve. Then a meal isserved, sufficiently substantial to appease the pangsof hunger, but not appetizing enough to tempt thosewho are not absolutely in need of it. 147. 148 FIELD LANE INSTITUTION. The Field Lane institution is truly a Christianwork for the benefit of the poor, and has been exten-sively useful in educating thousands of children whowould probably have grown up in ignorance, andperhaps crime. It has provided shelter and food formultitudes of homeless wanderers who seemed readyto perish; while boys in large numbers have beenapprenticed to trades, and hundreds of girls havereceived suitable training for domestic service. Manyillustrations can be gi^en by the officers of the insti-tution of the great good their agencies have been themeans of accomplishing. One Sunday morning I went by invitation to speakto the poor creatures who came in for the free break-fast. A lady who was present that morning wrote aletter in the evening to a friend, in which she says:All day long I have seen the faces of that audiencebefore me, — the hopeless, the careless, the weak inpurpose, the improvident, those just plunged in thehungry g
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