Our readers may remember that in our issue of December
31st we published a letter from " An -Anglo-Indian Mother," who asked whether it would be possible to get into touch with "kind, jolly, well-bred people " in England, who would be willing to take during the holidays children who areoften exceedingly lonely and give them a happy time in return for remuneration. Our correspondent had' evidently tried adver- tising and had been disillusioned: Shoals⢠of the replies, she said, came from " good Christian homes.." " That.," she remarked, " is not what we want. Some of us have had' vicarious experience of them and know -what they mean." We think we know too. The family in which a lonely child will be made to feet thoroughly at home does not need to emphasize the fact that it is either good or Christian. Those qualities will appear incidentally, yet inevitably, and are certainly not aided, but are rather disproved, by assertion. " "What we pray God for nightly " our correspondent went on, " is that some home may turn up which is well run and cheerful, belonging either to a not too elderly childless couple or to a mother whose heart and house are big enough, and whose purse is not too shallow; to allow her to give a little love and care to the lonely children of another woman, children whose continual cry is Mummy, will you be back next holidays? ' "
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