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LETTERS FROM 
Near the House of Industry is another 
charitable institution for the reception of 
poor men and women, who are too old or 
infirm for hard labour. A few of them em¬ 
ploy a part of their time in making brooms. 
Among the inmates of this asylum we found 
one of our own country-women, who, I 
believe, came out to Malta as a servant in 
an English family. She told us that she 
was very comfortably provided for, but that 
she much felt the want of a cup of tea now 
and then, as this article was not supplied by 
the institution. We gave the poor old wo¬ 
man some money to procure a little of this 
luxury, so essential to the comfort of almost 
all English women. 
We next went to a convent of Capuchin 
monks at Floriana. These poor men have 
no property but their house, and some small 
gardens and orangeries; they are supported 
