THE NEED FOR A CHILDREN'S CONVALESCENT ROME.
[To THE EDITOR OF TICE " SmmitTOn."] 8111,-51711.1 you allow me, through your columns, to make a !request, in the hope that some reader may feel inclined to =supply what is wanted ? The medical superintendent of a large convalescent hospital in Kent, in which the children
of the poor are received while recovering from scarlet-fever, has sent me an earnest petition for a piano (and in a second letter, he says, may I add rocking-horses and toys P") for the little ones under his care. These number about two hundred.
Scarlet-fever patients have many weeks of convalescence to get through before they are fit to return to their homes, and many of these children are very well able to dance and to sing, if they could have music to dance to. Any old school- room piano might here have a second life of usefulness.—I am, Sir, &c., HELEN WEBB. P.S.—Replies to be addressed, Miss Webb, M.B., 30 Devon- shire Street, Portland Place, London, W.
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