A meeting was held in the Library of the Archbishop
of Canterbury's Palace at Lambeth on Wednesday afternoon, to found a Lambeth Branch of that most useful "Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants," domiciled at 14 Grosvenor Road, to which we have more than once called the attention of our readers. The Rev. J. Llewelyn Davies, who took the chair, spoke of the great utility of the Associa- tion in providing places for young girls, who had not yet had any training as servants at all, a point on which Mrs. Fawcett, the wife of the Postmaster-General, who also made a most interesting and useful speech, specially enlarged, showing how completely without the requisite experience were those girls, who have been brought up in workhouse schools, where all the more important domestic industries,—like the washing, for instance,—are done by machinery. Alderman McArthur, M.P., and Mr. Hollond, M.P., both made interesting speeches on the great value of this institution, and the hearty appreciation of it felt by those of the Boards of Guardians who had had experience of its work. But the truth is that as yet the Association is but little known, though its chairman, the Rev. Brooke Lambert, Vicar of Greenwich, a man of great organising power and indefatigable benevolence, has thrown his whole heart into the work. The Association has great ex- penses in the various homes it keeps up for girls out of place, and needs much more public support than it gets. It cannot be too well known that it never forces its visitors on the mis- tresses of girls who are reluctant to permit their visits ; but, for the most part, the British matron likes her servant to have respectable connections, and is all the kinder and more patient with her for such connections.
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