At the present time social workers among the Chinese refugees are clamouring for newspapers to be used as bedding for the destitute. Mr. J. Brennerman is the man to get in touch with, so, having read the news, and gained the possible amount of education and cultivation of thought from yours, pass them: on to ihe needy.
But that does not exhaust all the possibilities of the uses of newspapers. Moths, which will swallow anything, will not touch printers' ink so in one respect we are willing to gulp more than they, but we have our lines of demarcation, We may, on occasion, have declared our willingness to eat our hat, yet have never contemplated making à meal out of Master's dress suit at which a moth has not jibbed, but the usefulness of news sheets to humans remains through this pest's discriminating taste, so there you are.
At a homeside race-meeting last year, which proved to be damp, news Vendors, when sales slacked off, advised folk to buy the news journals to put their feet on and prevent chills, so editorial and article sweating was for once, the cynical will saw. affording rare comfort it is with many regrets that they will see her go.
With Mrs. Godby gone, who left in November, and Mrs. Whitney contemplating home leave, the association is going to find times the more difficult with the absence of these supporters.
It is therefore of urgency that new blood should be introduced to the B.W.A. at once, and an extensive drive for new members is taking place just now. It is known that many British women who could be useful to the association have never yet joined, and it is hoped that they will now be willing to help share in a burden which is becoming increasingly diMeult for the thinning ranks.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.