On Tuesday a meeting was held at the Society of
Arts in favour of the Association for befriending the girls sent out to service from pauper schools, who, if not befriended and looked after for the first few years, are almost sure to sink into misery and vice. The late Mrs. Nassau Senior had founded this asso- ciation, in connection with the pauper schools in the metropolis, and it is now in full work and close relations with ten out of sixteen pauper schools. At the meeting on Tuesday, Canon Farrar stated the remarkable fact that in New York the history of a single neglected pauper girl had been traced, and it was found that within 80 years, from her and the two sisters whom she had dragged down with her into misery and vice, 683 souls were descended, of whom all were, in greater or less degree, paupers, vagabonds, or criminals. A little sympathy and help given to the friendless and the young, thus saves a whole host from degradation and from preying on society.
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