THE NECESSITOUS LADIES' HOLIDAY AND GENERAL FUND.
(To THE EDITOR or THE " SPECTATOR."'
Sin,—In your kindness you have allowed me to appeal for years past for contributions towards the Necessitous Ladies' Holiday and General Fund, and I venture once again to ask the charity of your readers, for whose generosity in the past I could never be grateful enough. The poor ladies, unlike their sisters of the rougher classes, are suffering pitifully through the difficulty of obtaining work. I refer to widows of the poorer clergy, super- annuated governesses, hospital nurses, literary ladies, musi- cians, painters, actresses, and companions, many of whom, disqualified by age or infirmity to get engagements, are left behind in the city in the summer months exposed to the priva- tions attendant on poverty. The Fund also supplies food, medicine, and clothing, and comforts that are even more urgently needed than rest or change of air. Faced with the high cost of living on their tiny incomes, many are in daily anxiety. I plead, then, for the old, the sick, and help- less. All contributions sent to the following address will be gratefully acknowledged and distributed.—I am, Sir, &c., (Miss) CONSTANCE BF.ERBOHH, Treasurer.
48 Upper Berkeley Street, W. 1.
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