Tt may be asked can -such a form as' "charming". ever be applied to such: an undesirable function as a bazaar. I always look upon them as necessary vils, and often wonder if they are really as inevitable in the cause of charity as we are led to 1 believe. Presumably. they must be or some less tedious means of collecting money would have been found long since. On the present occasion it was necessary to raise £13,000 in order to complete, tand furnish, the now wards of the {Victoria Hospital for Children in Chelsea, and more than a year ago Mrs. Claude Hay conceived the idea of a "Nursery Rhymes" Bazaar, as being something new and attractive and eminently suitable for. the purpose. From her I learnt that it has taken the whole year, working hard all the time, to accomplish the task she sot herself, but the result has beenjmost satisfactory, as not only was the bazaar a brilliant success, So far as prettiness is concerned, having' in the estimation of many who were present broken all records, but
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