LONDON GIRLS' CLUB UNION.
[To Tan EDrroa or THE " SPECTATOR.")
Sna—The Hems Office has just recognized the Importance, espeoially at the present time, of providing healthy employment and recreation for young people by appointing a Committee " to consider what steps can be taken to attract boys and girls to become members of brigades and clubs." We hope therefore that you will allow us to make a modest appeal on behalf of an organi- zation which is actively and successfully engaged in promoting that very object, The London Girls' Club Union (with its fifty- four affiliated clubs), of which Her Majesty the Queen is patron, and which was founded by the originator of Girls' Clubs, the late Hon. Maude Stanley, is in argent need of the sum of 42100 a year to cover the cost of its competitions, which embrace choral and solo singing, drill, swimming, cookery, care of infante, needlework, bulb-growing, and literary and dramatic subjects, and reach a higher standard than that attained by any other Association of Girls" Clubs. These competitions, with the physical and mental training which they call for, supply just that form of recreation and interest which a London girl needs after a long day's work. It is unnecessary to dwell on the contrast between an evening at the club and one spent at the picture palace in its effect on the characters of the young people who are now causing anxiety to the Home Office. Subscriptions will be gratefully received by the Hon. Treasurer, Miss Ruth Whitbread, 21 Eaton Place, S.W.—I Runs Warraaran, Treasurer. Gases V. STEPHENSON, Secretary.
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