Two Women and a Dog.

Gisborne Standard and Cook County Gazette, Volume IV, Issue 574, 24 February 1891, Page 3

Two Women and a Dog.

Sydney Bulletin.

This world is all a stage, and the Devil is the scene-shifter, and Nemesis is the propertyman, and the Furies take the money $t th® door and look after things generally. Here are two apts from the show which we quote in justification of this view

Colonel North, the ni- Another glimpse of East trate millionaire, who End life (and death) was paid £B5O for a single dog, afforded by an inquest keeps a large number at held by Coroner E. Baxter Eltham, where the kennels on the body of Elizabeth are sumptuously fitted up. Anstead, 34, a single There is a doctor’s room, woman lately residing at where a dog who has a 13 Cald*r Street, Bromslight cold or other ailment ley. Mary Ann Anstead, is immediately attended to. an old woman scarcely There is a cloak-room; the able to walk, stated that dogs* coats cost about 16s deceased was her daugheach. In the feeding-room ter. They lived together, you see shoulders of mutton and deceased used to and prime pieces of beef work at shirt-finishing at weighing about 281 b each, which she earned 3s per week and sometimes not. Witness was allowed 2s 6d per week as outdoor relief, and this represented their total income They paid 2s per week rent for their room, and lived and clothed themselves out of the other 8s 6J. The deceased lived chiefly on bread and butter. On Monday tnoTuing she was worse, and she died the same night. The Cozener : 4 4 This sort of thing goes on all the week round, yet people seem to think there is no poverty in the East End.” To be a, hardworking female is a poor way of earning a living, but it is obviously a grand institution to be an English dog. Yet if Elizabeth Anstead had applied for a billet as one of Colonel North’s dogs she would probably have been rejected with derision because it was her misfortune to be only a human being—the glorious prospect of being an £B5O dog was closed against her by the iron decrees of fate, and she never had a show because she couldn’t barkin a country where a woman and her mother are only worth fia a week, while a deg, altogether apart from its mother, is worth £B5O, it is clearly unprofitable to grow women at all. If an English woman is a dead losa o of Is 3d, and a dog is a profit of £B5O, how many women, according to the laws and customs of British Christianity, would require to be killed in order to save enough money to keep one fashionable pup ?