An admirable letter in Thursday's Times from the Rev. Brooke
Lambert, Chairman of the Council of the "Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants," describes the work done by that Association amongst the 3,000 girls from the District Workhouse Schools of London, who are sent out, often at the age of fourteen, into the world, without any home in which they may find a refuge when they lose their places, and who are thus almost inevitably ruined. The Association in question befriends them between the ages of fourteen and twenty ; visits them, with the consent of their mistresses, in their places; provides them with a temporary home when they lose their places ; trains them for better work, when they are in need of such training ; and in a word, helps them in their struggles during their apprenticeship to the rough work of domestic service. Mr. Lambert points out how impossible it is to keep up such a machinery as this without considerable funds, and how difficult the Association finds it to get the funds that are adequate for its work. For the truth of this statement we can ourselves answer, and only hope that Mr. Lambert's letter may bring the kind of aid to the Associa- tion whose head-quarters are at 14 Grosvenor Road, S.W., of which it stands in such urgent need.
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