COUNTRY HOLIDAYS' FUND.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE
Sta,—The experience of nine years has shown that a country holiday is no impossible good for the children of the closest and dreariest parts of London. Last year some three thousand. children were sent to spend three weeks by the sea or the fields. They came back not only with stronger bodies, but also with fresh thoughts and fresh subjects for talk gathered during their stay with their cottage hosts.
This year we are anxious to extend the good by enlisting the sympathy of your readers with our plan. Thousands of children with pale faces and fragile bodies every day get weary as they play in the close and unchanging streets ; within fifty miles of them are hundreds of cottages where hosts and friendly neigh.
boars are waiting to welcome the children as guests, while they spend their holidays amid the fresh air and changing sights of the country. A sum, comparatively small, is wanting to bring them together, and to pay the 5s. a week for the children's board. The parents, as they recognise the advantages, make great efforts to help towards the expenses of the holidays. There must be many of your readers who will be glad to give their money where it will go to create, not an institution, but pleasure, health, and thought for those who in childhood, as in old age, know more of hardship than of joy. .
Subscriptions will be gladly received by the Hon. Treasurer, Frederick Greene, 3A King William Street, City, and informa- tion obtained from the Secretary, Miss Louise Courtney, 1 Adam Street, Adelphi.—I am, Sir, &c., SAMUEL A. BAIINETT.
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