NECESSITOUS LADIES FUND.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR...1 SIE,—For years past you have been good enough to allow me to appeal in your valuable paper for contributions towards a fund for providing holidays by the sea or countryside for necessitous ladies. Much generous and self-sacrificing help is being given to other charities to meet the need this awful war has involved, whilst the poor ladies are likely to be overlooked. And yet no class has suffered so pitifully in the war as that of the poorer gentry through loss of work, and therefore of money. May I be allowed to appeal, then, for help to send away governesses, hospital nurses, typists, secretaries, clerks, musicians, actresses, and ladies of gentle birth engaged in other professions,. who, without the possibility of earning in the summer months, are left in the city exposed to the sufferings attendant on poverty P In some cases the poor ladies are quite beyond a holiday. For these 1 might supply relief in the form of food, medicine, or clothing. I plead, then, for these, our unfortunate sisters, for the sick, the elderly, and broken. All contributions sent to me at appended address will be gratefully acknowledged and distributed.—I am,
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