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New Zealand Illustrated Sporting & Dramatic Review, Volume IX, Issue 692, 11 June 1903, Page 9

An Australian in London, writing to a friend about the awful misery in the East End of London, told of one room in a house in the slums where no fewer than five families dwelt, one in each corner, and the fifth in the centre. Strange to say, they all seemed healthy, and they were certainly happy enough until, in an evil moment of sordid greed, the family in the centre of the room began to take in boarders. The week after the first rent was paid by the new arrival, the people who held the centre selection began to put on frills, and talk to one another loudly about the best music-hall to go to, and the latest thing in matinee hats, and before long the corner people rose in revolt and fell upon the upstarts, and thumped them back to their former lowly level. For the one who can bear prosperity prOk perly (says a brother spearman) I cajlfind, a hundred who can bear adversity.