A SCHOOL FOR MOTHERS.
Pro THE Entreat or THE " SPECIATOR."3 nt.—Once n year, and no more, I beg, in the Spectator, and nowhere else, for the Lancaster Road School for Mothers and Nursery for Children. I beg for sums amounting to .£400, to bring more health and happiness to Notting Dale. All through the war this good work has never nagged. It has been a con- stant quiet blessing to women and children. Much has been done during the past year. Arrangements have been made for the services of a dental clinic, and for ante-natal consultations; and a holiday fund has been started. Some of the women even dream of combining to rent a little country-cottage of their own. The spirit of self-help, friendliness, courtesy, has been steadily maintained. The Nursery has kept up its numbers. The raids are over; the men are coming back; they will find good wives and healthy children to come home to; but many of them are coming back disabled, and their wives will still have to go out to work. The present urgent needs of the School and Nursery are t- (1) Annual subscriptions.
(2) House-cleaning, repairing, Ac., and hot-water arrange- ments, no that women can do a little laundry work, or can come in for a hot bath.
(3) A but in the back-garden for any child who may fall ill during the day and may have to be isolated for some hours.
(4) A small ward for children too ill to he nursed at home, hat not ill enough to gain admission to a hospital. There are always children like this, and some of them die of not being ill enough to get into hospital.
(5) Surgical aid letters, especially for women requiring arti- ficial teeth.
(6) Books for a lending library.
We talk of reconstruction: here is a work of reconstruction which nobody can find fault with. I beg earnestly and hope- fully for not less than ZIA to prosper these purposes. All contributions should be sent either to Lady Mecdonell, 31 Ken- sington Park Gardens, or to Lady Hewart, 26 Kensington Park Gardens. The School and Nursery 033 Lancaster Road) can be visited any afternoon except Saturday. Visitors are most welcome. Indeed, the women take it amiss that a house which means so much to them should mean so little to other people. If only I get the £400 the women will have a house to be proud of, more than ever.—I am, Sir, Ac., 21 Ladbroke Square, W.
STEPHEN PAGIft.
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