Here asin many other places we visited, the names of Rotary and Mr. Horton are mentioned with affection and respect, but the mainstay of the home is the contributions solicited by Miss Henderson personally. Tite principal need is money, though gifts of clothing, milk and cod liver oil would also be appreciated. After seeing what Grandma can do with her few dollars, we would plump wholeheartedly for cash. Her ability to make one dollar do the work of the other four that ought to be keeping it company, leave little room for doubt that the old lady can put funds entrusted to her to a better purpose than even the most competent of her well-wishers.
Miss Henderson's home is known s St. Faith's Orphanage and is situated at 52 Jessfield Road. If you e any difficulty in finding it, just ask for "Grandma Also on Jessfield Road is another refugee institution known as the Children's Camp and run very much on Junior Y.M.C.A. lines by Mr. William Leo of the National Child Welfare Association. Here 460 boys and 180 gris of tender years, 25 per cent. of whom are orphans and homeless, receive board, lodging and education in pleasant surroundings that include spacious ing fields and ample sleeping accommodation. Phy-cal training forms a prominent part of the curriculum and there is a hospital with three nurses for the sick Three meals a day, however, and an abundance of soyabean milk have cut down the number of patients to a minimum.
The principal needs, one learns, are warm clothing, cod liver oil and money to buy more milk. Of these, the first would appear to be an urgent one.
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