WOMEN'S HOLIDAY FUND. [To TRH EDITOR OF THP "SPECTATOR."] SIR, — We
have none of us much money left in our pockets, but still I am not afraid to ask your readers to give some- thing to the 'Women's Holiday Fund, which they have so generously helped in past years. Our expenses this year are very heavy—no cheap railway fares, and lodgings dearer, so that perhaps only half our usual numbers will be sent away, and we need more money even to do that. Amongst those we are sending are widows of the brave soldiers and sailors who have given their lives to defend our ]and. These women waiting for, or just in receipt of, pensions—a very different matter from compensation allowance—need a little rest and change before starting on their lonely life's work. The hand of death is busy amongst our sons and husbands, and few of us have escaped, but I think we all wish to help those less well off than ourselves to break for a time the sad monotony of sorrow, In this belief I venture to aak for donations to be sent to the Secretary, Women's Holiday Fund, 76 Denison House, Vauxhall Bridge Rcad, or to me (Mrs. Frank Pownall) at 7r Bickenhall Mansions, Gloucester Place, W.—I am, Sir,
HELEN A. POWNALL.
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