THE COSTLEY HOME.

New Zealand Herald, Volume XXIX, Issue 8987, 19 September 1892, Page 3

THE COSTLEY HOME.

TO THE EDITOR. Sir, — you have been informed of one egg story, I may tell you of another " eggstraordinary story " told me by a lady visitor. One old lady had been allowed an egg for her breakfast, being an invahd. One morning, feeling a little better, she offered it to another sickly inmate, for which offence her eggs were at once stopped. The argument that the food must be good because fifty pigs are fed on the waste is no evidence in favour of the Home, rather the reverse. Every scrap, if properly cooked, should be utilised, or nearly so. It is rather an evidence that the food is unpalatable, and hence, is flung to the pigs. A lady visitor informed me that, on visiting lately in the afternoon, she found hunks of bread and butter being cut, and asking what meal it was for, was informed the breakfast next morning! Now, we all know what bread and butter is like if it is prepared the day before used. Why should these poor old unfortunates be treated differently to what we ourselves are, unless it is the prerogative of the managers of charitable homes to make life as burdensome as possible to inmates, and so unattractive as to make them long to get away anywhere ! — lam, &c, Brotherhood.