AN APPEAL.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE 'SPECTATOR."]
Sin—In asking your consideration of the claims of the Children's Aid Society, a branch of the Reformatory and Refuge Union, of which I am the president, I am not seeking help for a mere experiment, but for work which has been in progress now for nearly forty years with marked success. By means of this Society, large numbers of children have been rescued from criminal and vicious surroundings, from the almost certain fate of a future of dishonesty and vice, and have become honest and honourable men and women and useful members of society. Daring the past year alone twelve hundred and ninety children have come within the beneficent operations of the Society. And it is gratifying to be able to state that it was recently ascertained that of the children rescued by the society and placed in Industrial Schools daring the last twelve years, nearly 90 per cent. were known to be doing well, and only 5.1 per cent, were found to be not doing well. Help is urgently needed if the good work of this Society is to continue, and it ought surely not to be
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