The Chairman of the London School Board has this week
made an appeal to the country for further subscriptions to the Children's Country Holidays Fund,—of which the Hon. Alfred Lyttelton (10 Buckingham Street, Strand) is the treasurer. Out of the 600,000 children in the London schools last summer, 14,000 were sent into the country for a. holiday,-10s. ensuring one child a fortnight in a country cottage with country hosts; and if more funds were forth- coming, crowds of children who live in the closest alleys all the year round, could get one real glimpse of the country and country enjoyments. This year, only 10,000 children out of 600,000 have as yet had that pleaeure,—in other words, only one in every sixty children who need it. Ought any man who takes his own holiday of perhaps a month, or even two months, to allow himself to enjoy it without having deducted enough from his own expenses to enable two or three children to form some conception of country freedom and country beauties?
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