The Shearing of the Flock – The Days’ Doings – Saturday 30th July 1870
The Shearing of the Flock
A hair merchant lately arrived at country village, and exhibited to the inhabitants paper, which certified to have been sent from “Sainte Association,” formed for the purpose of collecting the hair girls and young women, and weaving it into cope for the Pope, to presented to him on the day of the proclamation of his infallibility. Numbers of women were thus deluded, and submitted to be shorn; and it was not till the “merchant” had departed that they found the hair was intended not for his Holiness, but for chignons and false plaits. Our artist has depicted the holy thief at his unholy work.
The Days’ Doings – Saturday 30th July 1870
New shoes
Werfel, a 6-year old Austrian orphan, beams with unbounded joy as he clasps a new pair of shoes. Austria, 1946.
Of all the pictures that I have posted over the years this has to be the one that always makes me smile because of the absolute joy shown on this young boys face but makes me sad that something that take for granted clearly meant so much to him.
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