THE TABARD STREET FACTORY-GIRLS' CLUB.
LTO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—Will you allow me once again to bring before your readers the needs of the Factory Girls' Home and Club in Tabard Street P It becomes every year more difficult to write anything new in a letter of this kind. The best evidence I can give that the work of the home is doing steady good—in itself no slight praise in these days of change—is that which comes to us from the girls themselves. "You may not think it," said one of these to the lady-superintendent the other day, "but the club has done us a lot of good. There isn't above two or three now but would be ashamed to hang round a pub. door now."
One thing becomes more evident every year,—viz., the diffi- culties which surround the girls in their attempt to lead better lives. The longer any one lives in the squalid regions of our large towns, the more gigantic do the obstacles appear.
It is to carry on this work through this next—the seventh —year of our existence, that I ask for the liberal support of those whose eye this may catch, not only in the way of dona- tions, but as yearly subscribers. Daring the past year, death has robbed us of one or two of our most constant supporters, one of whom never missed sending an answer to our yearly appeal, though she lived many thousand miles from London. I would gladly send a report of the work to any one who asked for it, giving many details which I have not room to enter into here, and will also acknowledge any subscriptions.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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