is not allowed to proclaim its existence here with brass bands and processions but it nevertheless manages to do a good deal of useful work among the poor. It is now endeavouring to taise funds for the establishment of a night shelter on sanitary and humanitarian principles. The existing shelters are altogether inadequate and the usefulness of many is limited by certain regulations with regard to admission. There is for example'a rule that a man cannot avail himself of their hospitality more than a certain number of nights every month or every quarter. But there are hundreds of people in Paris who are in a constant state of destitution.and who are permanently without any place to lay their heads. For many of them the only alternative to sleeping in the open alns to take refuge in one of those miserable places which are a disgrace to Paris and which the authorities have repeatedly tried to suppress, but without success, asthe letter of the Taw does not condemn them. These places
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