British boardinghouse keepers and other "ladies come down in the world" twittered approvingly last week over a copy of the Times in which the will of Samuel William Farmer, rich Wilshire squire, was published. His entire estate amounting to £400,000 ($1,945,000) was bequeather "to be used for the benefit of upper middle and professional class persons of both sexes who through ill health or advancing years are unable to earn a living."
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