14 JANUARY 1922, Page 3

The great danger with all organizations is, of course, that

a list of desirable families, however valuable it might be at first, would tend to become conventional or professional. The Pecksniffs and the " good Christian homes " might creep in after all and the " jolly, well-bred people " who would give the child such a good time that it would not long to go back to school would be lost sight of. Although we hope the matter will be discussed we do not see any infallible solution ; but, meanwhile, we may express our satisfaction that we have been given an opportunity of being of some use in a particular instance.