GENTLEWOMEN'S HOLIDAY GUILD.
During many years past a few ladies here have provided a fortnight's holiday, during the summer season, in Tunbridge Wells, for gentlewomen from London and elsewhere who are earning their own livelihood and to whom an occasional--
rest and change are invaluable. All costs, including travelling expenses and board in comfortable rooms, are provided in each case. A personal welcome is accorded to each visitor and it is sought to make their stay in every way a pleasant one. Motor drives, &c., in our beautiful surroundings are arranged—friends kindly lending their private cars for this purpose. The cost of the holiday, some 26 Os. per head is defrayed by subscriptions, supplemented by a sale of work or similar effort when required. From thirty to forty of these holiday visitors have been provided for each year since the initiation of the scheme in 1896—the number last year was thirty-seven. Might not something on similar lines be organized with equal success by a few ladies " in other healthful places within reach of our great centres ? It is in this hope, in the interest of a class of the community whose lives are so often monotonous and difficult that I beg your kind insertion of this letter.—ALexa. Girrnare, Tunbridge Wells.
P.S. Any further information desired may be obtained from the Hon. Sec., Mrs. Pasteur, Brendon, Warwick Park, Tunbridge Wells.
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