The annual meeting of the Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young
Servants was held at Grosvenor House (the Duke of Westminster's) yesterday week, Sir Baldwyn Leighton in the chair. The chairman made an earnest appeal on behalf of the Society, which has helped more than 6,000 girls during the last year, and found them over 5,000 situations, while 1,225 girls were provided for, in the intervals between their leaving one place and finding another, in the branch lodging houses. Mr. R. Strong, M.P., and Mr. Humping Ward made vigorous speeches on behalf of the Association, and Miss F. Davenport Hill spoke with great satisfaction of the progress made in the results of the Association's efforts within the last three or four years. The truth is that this is one of those unpretending Associations which make little fuss but do an immense amount of good, and that all it needs is heartier support on the part of the public for its very unpretending but efficacious agencies. Subscriptions are earnestly asked for, to be addressed to the Secretary, 18 Buckingham Street, Strand, W.C.
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