The Archive · 1920

One of These Little Ones

Oct. 29.

More than once we have ventured the remark that the only fault to be found with the King's Daughters and the Charity Organization Committee is that they do not advertise enough. The amount of real distress which they relieve, supplementing their slender resources by unremitting personal care, is undreamt of by those who know no more of these two organizations than what the annual report, published in the Municipal Gazette, reveals. The converse of this unostentatious policy is, or should be, that when the K.D.S. and C.0.C. come before the public with an appeal for help, they find the readier assistance. Such an appeal we are making for them now, with the sure hope that it will arouse that generous support which it so plainly deserves.

Let us, however, first quote two typical instances of the kind of necessity which these Societies are continually called upon to meet. The first is that of a poor Euronean family, visited and found to be in the direst poverty, The mother was in the last stages

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