File:Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes; (1902) (14783540225).jpg

Identifier: livinglondonitsw03sims (find matches)
Title: Living London; its work and its play, its humour and and its pathos, its sights and its scenes;
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Sims, George Robert, 1847-1922
Subjects:
Publisher: London, Paris : New York & Melbourne, Cassell and company, limited
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Internet Archive

View Book Page: Book Viewer
About This Book: Catalog Entry
View All Images: All Images From Book
Click here to view book online to see this illustration in context in a browseable online version of this book.

Text Appearing Before Image:
, ramb-i n g , dancing,singing, etc. Launchtrips on the Thames,lectures and lanterndis;)lays in thewinter at the Asso-ciations roc~)ms, St.Georges II all,fiu-ther promote social intercourse, and thesubscription is but nominal, the workingexpenses being pnnided b)- the presidingoffice-bearers. The newer telephone organisation of thePostal Department has wisely reaped all thebenefits of the eN))eriments and experience ofthe pioneer compan)-. No gown hides the
Text Appearing After Image:
C/1 < O oz u Q < X p<: cu H WO z <: z o zau o HO tj:l1:i11u.\J: lo.\du.\. 119 operators taste in dress, but each must be inheight 5 ft. 2 in. or o\er, and e.\tra lit;ht-weiLjlits are rejected. Siie is e.Kaniinedby a lad)- physician, her eyesight tested,her teeth put in order—to avoid absencethroLigii tmithache—and, if considerednecessary, revaccination toUows. After fourto six weeks in the school on full wagesshe begins duty at iis. weekly the first year,rising graduall)- to £^1 a week at the end, ofnine jears. The limit of her salarx-earningcapacity is about £200 per annum, and ifinvalided two-thirds pa_\ is awarclel her. 11 erdining-room, decorated with the flowers sheand her comrades ha\e brought frtim theirown gardens, looks like a first-class restaurant,and her sumptuous dinner costs herfivepence!The Postal Telephone service has nonebut underground lines and cables, and deepdown in the basement of the Central Ex-change flow fat, sinuous snakes of le

Note About Images