OUR WAIFS AND STRAYS.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE .` SPECTATOR :9
SIR,—May I draw the attention of your readers to the work which is being done by the Church of England Waifs and Strays Society, the special machinery of the National Church for dealing with outcast, orphan, and destitute children P In its sixty-five homes, scattered over England and Wales, and boarded out with carefully selected foster-parents, are two thousand four hundred children, many of them rescued from the worst surroundings. Unfortunately the Society's funds are now overdrawn to the extent of over £3,000, many de- serving eases having to be refused.
It is hardly necessary to point out the immense benefit to the community of such work for children as is being carried on by this Society, as it is a well-known fact that the remark- able and continual diminution of crime is mainly due to the efforts now being put forth for the rescue and care of neg- lected children. A lady has promised £100 towards the extinction of the debt on condition that seven other gifts of like amount are forthcoming before November 12th; and, as Chairman of the Society, I appeal earnestly to your readers to meet this offer, and thus assist in enabling the Committee to proceed with its beneficent work unhampered by debt. The Secretary to the Society, Mr. E. de M. Rudolf, Church House, Westminster, S.W., will gladly receive donations and subscriptions, and give full information as to the Society's operations.—I am, Sir, &c., WALSHAM WAKEFIELD.
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