NECESSITOUS LADIES' HOLIDAY AND GENERAL FUND. [To THE EDITOR OF
THE " SPECTATOR.' I Sin,—As you have been good enough to allow me to appeal for years past for contributions towards the Necessitous Ladies' Holiday and General Fund, I venture once more to trespass on your kindness. No class has suffered more pitiably owing to the war than the poorer gentry through loss of work and of money, more particularly superannuated governesses and hospital nurses, literary ladies, companions, painters, musicians, actresses, and, indeed, all those disqualified to engage in munition work, and who, without the possibility of earning in the summer months, are left behind in the City exposed to privation. In cases where the poor ladies are beyond a holiday, the fund sup- plies them with relief in the form of food, medicine, and clothing. I plead, then, for the old, the helpless, and the sick. All contri- butions sent to appended address will be gratefully acknowledged and distributed.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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