Lord Shaftesbury and other gentlemen write to the Times to
recommend a peculiar form of charity. The poor children in Loudon are half starved, so starved that they can learn nothing in the Ragged Schools. It is found that one good dinner of meat a week sets them up, and the Destitute Children's Dinner Society provides such dinners, costing fourpence, at a penny a head, usually in the Ragged School, or near it. It has given 15,000 such dinners, and wants some more money. Here is a society people can help, whatever their opinions may be. Whatever else is doubtful, giving "a meal's meat" to ragged babies once a week is a right act, and a Christian one, and we only wish it could be given to their mothers too, as it might be, if we could re-link paro- chial organization and private benevolence. Treasurer, the Hon. A. Binnaird, M.P., 2 Pall Mall East.
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