Miss Octavia Hill, who appears to be the great referee
in all questions as to the soundness of any work of charity, bears witness, in a, letter tb the Warden of Keble College, published in the Times of last Tuesday, to the admirable work done by the Parochial Women Mission Society among the poorest class of our great cities. The instruments of this work are themselves poor women, who receive for their wages only as much as they might easily have earned in any calling to which they might have devoted themselves, and whose duty it is not to distribute alias, but "by kindly offices of every sort, in sickness, in dis- tress, in degradation," to make friends of the poor, and to help
them by taking charge of their savings, which are looked after by the Ladies Superintendent, to whom the mission women report. There are 197 of these mission women ; the savings collected by them in 1882 amounted to £14,595, and in the twenty-three years since the work was begun, no less than £217,375 have been collected in this way. The Society, like all such Societies, finds it very difficult to collect subscriptions and donations enough to keep these women at work, and yet what is wanted is greatly to increase their number, for, they are very much in demand, the clergy finding their assistance of the greatest possible use. We need hardly add that contributions to the work which Miss Octavio. Hill so heartily recommends are cordially welcomed at the Parochial Mission Women Society's Office, 11 Buckingham Street, Strand.
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