The Report of the Travellers' Aid Society for Girls and
Women, ' at 6, Baker Street, W. 1, deserves to be widely read. This modest society, with branches throughout the kingdom and 'agents abroad, does a vast amount of good work in helping women and girls who have got into difficulties while travelling. Thus the London office alone last year rendered assistance in nearly 5,000 cases, and the Liverpool branch dealt with almost as many. The Report details some typical cases, in which, for example, young girls left stranded at night in London were taken care of until their relatives could be informed of their plight and send money to bring them home. The railway authorities co-operate with the society. The Report justly points out that if the young woman who was murdered outside -Bournemouth some months ago had asked the Travellers' Aid Society to make inquiries regarding the advertisement and telegram which lured her to her death she would not have gone. The society makes many such inquiries at home and abroad, and saves unwary women from being deceived by fraudulent or criminal advertisers.
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