Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ble spectacle. The tragedy of thedrink fiend is awful in its consequences toits i)uioccnt victims. It means, too frequently,alas, to them financial ruin and social degrad-ation, the blighting of the fairest hopes, alife-long misery, and an ever-present fear! Reverse of fortune is often bravely borne;but the sale of the household gods is a bitterblow to face. There are auctions in Londonat which every knock of the hammer is aheartache. The shadow falls on many ahome t)f luxury when banks fail or fa
Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; . ble spectacle. The tragedy of thedrink fiend is awful in its consequences toits i)uioccnt victims. It means, too frequently,alas, to them financial ruin and social degrad-ation, the blighting of the fairest hopes, alife-long misery, and an ever-present fear! Reverse of fortune is often bravely borne;but the sale of the household gods is a bitterblow to face. There are auctions in Londonat which every knock of the hammer is aheartache. The shadow falls on many ahome t)f luxury when banks fail or familysolicitors abscond, when by some great crisisthe change from -wealth to poverty has to beswiftly made; when the man whom all theworld thought solvent has to acknowledgethat he cannot meet his obligations, and hisname appears in the published list of bank-rupts. But every cloud has its silver lining ; andit is good to know that many a man bybrave endeavour lifts the shadow fron? thehome, and walks, when the )ears of trial haveflown, in the bright sunshine of peace andprosjDerity once SOLD UP. 75 WATER LONDON. By HUGH B. PHILPOTT.
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