The very interesting letter that we print to-day from the King's Daughters' Society suggests a definite use for the "Down and Out" lund (to which we have to express thanks fox another gift of Tls. 25), on which it is tobe hoped that some action may be taken. The actual experience, as described by Mrs. Henman, of the value of hawving certain houses at disposal where deserving and destitute people may have a roof over their head is very gratifying, as also the fact that, in almost every instance, the people thus helped have ultimately got on their feet again. Mrs. Henman tells us that the problem of helping single nen in this way is of a different and, we lather deduce, more difficult order. Which probably means that single men "down on their uppers' are more liable to run utterly to seed than married. But here, pa haps, it is question of catching them in time, and a man who has a decent house to go to ig saved at least from the utter self-disrespect and feeling
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.