The annual meeting of the Bayswater "Home" for young women
was held on Friday last, under the presidency of Lord Radfltock, a gentleman who seems much inclined to follow in Lord Shaftesbury's path. It was announced that a new branch would shortly be added to this very excellent association, namely, an invalid home, either on the coast or in some country district, one of the most genuinely kindly ideas recently brought before us. The poor girls for whom the homes are intended sometimes want some- thing more than comfort, or medicine, or instruction. Crowded in shops, and worked as if they were in the fields, they want when they break down air, change, a little respite from the London roar—that sense of a fever in life which. harasses so terribly those compelled to live in London all the year. The leading supporters of the homes are trying to supply just this want, to give the un- lucky girls something beyond mere help, and to this end are raising
what they call an " fund." Whatever else is doubful, country air to a convalescent shop-girl worked into fainting fits must be an unmixed good. Treasurer,—J. C. Marshman, Esq., 7 Kensington Palace Gardens.
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