THE - POOR AND TREIte rtINERALS. • MO THE EDITOR OP
writ "Stiorston."] Sin,—To illustrate the horror entertained of pauper btrial by the poorer classes, I should like to cite the case of a widow personally known to me, who has contracted with the village undertaker for her oWn funeral, and holds his receipt. "He has promised to do me beautiful," she says, "the same as he did him." To effect this, however; she, the victim of a mortal disease, has reduced herself to .the bare necessaries of life. For ordinary medical supplies she depends on charity. Poor thing, she holds another written agreement, by which She has willed away her furniture and effects to a neighbetit, in return for being "done for" for the rest of her life. "Being done for" means personal attendance twice, and the tidying- up of -her two rooms. This may show what sacrifices can be made for a "beautiful funeral." In this .widow's case, it has aflbrcied her an absolute peace of mind, which we, in another station of life, utterly fail to fathom.—I am, Sir, &c., I. M. D.
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