Once at the wish of a friend I was visiting I went to carry some comforts to a neglected almshouse on a Western prairie.
She soon earned quite a sum of money, which she placed at interest in the bank, and she was then able to take her grandmother out of the almshouse.
The church and Court are beautifully placed above the old village and a picturesque group of almshouses line the upward way to them.
Their monasteries were mission stations, which resembled ours in being dispensaries for the sick, almshouses for the poor, and nurseries of learning.
Many made no pretence of looking for work upon arrival, and instead went directly to the almshouse.
Almshouse residents were routinely required to dress in ' sad colours ' in keeping with the ancient religious heritage of these institutions and the standing of the inhabitants.
Baltimore opened its almshouse in 1773.
