THE HOUSE OF HELP IN BRISTOL.
[To THE EDITOR 07 THE " SPECTATOR:9
Sin,—Will you kindly allow me to renew an appeal, made by mein your columns just a year ago, in behalf of our "House of Help" in Trinity Street, Bristol? As before, it is not money we are asking, but two or three more lady-residents, to carry on the various and most useful work that is there being done amongst the poor. The ladies live in the Home, which is superintended by one of their number, and provide for their own board and lodging, the charge to each being £40 a year. On this, and on all other points of detail, information may be obtained from our indefatigable secretary, Miss Edwards, at the House of Help, 20 Trinity Street, Bristol. The associa- tion, consisting of four to six ladies, is not in the ordinary sense a Sisterhood, though the basis of the Society is distinctly religious ; and we aim rather at attracting the valuable help of such ladies as wish to devote themselves, for a longer or shorter period, to work of this nature, without being members of a body under rules or vows, or any external supervision. I can testify, as President of the Home (in which office I succeeded my predecessor in the Chapter of Bristol, Dr. Percival), to the sterling and valuable work that is being none by this little Society. We are the more encouraged in again trespassing on your kindness, that on each of the two previous occasions on which you gave publicity to our wants, a new and valuable member was added to our body, as the result of the appeal—I am, Sir, Sze.,
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