Special attention is drawn to Mrs.
Harpur's report on the operations of that most effective charity, The Foreign Women's Home, during the year 1994, This organization performs hhere the functions of a charity which demands in an. especial degree the womanly qualities of sympathy, tact and discretion. The very nature of iis tabours precludes anything but the most general reference to the assistance "which ft gives to obscurant is sometimes an effective claimant to electoral confidence. The notion is truly appropriate in the mind of a protege of the master of press "stunts." Tt seems to take insuMicient account of the eventual failure of the cause which Lord Randolph Churchill made a pretext for his Slibustering and the failure the "Fourth Party's" leader. But Mr, Randolph Churchill is wise enough, presumably, to know how fickle "stunt" press' magnates can be. Lord Randolph had not that handicap. He nevertheless forgot Goshen, Mr. Randolph's. memory may be more tenacious, but will his Fleet Street backers sacrifice for hint their habitual dislike of consistent allegiances? But then, again, the Churchillian tradition lays no special stress on consist Jency, so perhaps all is for the best. foreign women in distress, For 1 reason, if for no other, the support Given "to. it must be warmly come fronded, and commended tu the most practical way by urging its needs on the attention of the community, The fnances are fovealed in, Mrs." Har-Fison King's stotment. "They" show that the Society commands resources which enable it to face the future without" undue perturbation. At the ame time there is an overdraft at the Bank. This suggests that, although no dire appeal for funds is being mad charitably-minded in Shanghai shaula be Invited to see that the sup-ort given to what is really a tragic deserving fatitin poo mre: TRereased In volume, "oe really it possible,
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