A little while ago we published @n appeal for assistance for a lady who had gone into some hill villages in Chibli to live with and help some famine sufferers who had been apparently overlooked. The following is an interesting description from her pen of the surroundings in which she is working "So good of you to think so much of our needs. I want to thank you for the last contribution of $38 and for the efforts you are making to get others interested. You ask if T received a sum of some hundred dollars from the Famine Relief Committee. No, I have heard nothing at all of this. nor have the workers at the central station, but a large quantity of grain has been sent up freight free and I am getting a share of it.
"I have 42 women and children staying in my little house with me and in the village I have opened a school for boys. The old village school master came to me for help and I felt this the best way to help him and his scholars. I go across morning and evening to conduct prayers and to see how matters are going on.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.