A Reliable Machine at a Popular Price. FOR ORDINARY WORK AND FOR WRITING IN SEND FOR CATALOGUE AND PARTICULARS TO THE AMERICAN TYPEWRITER CO.,87, Gracechurch St., London, E.C. Advertisements. iii National Incorporated Waifs' Association (Otherwise known as "Dr. Barnardo's Homes"); OVER FIVE THOUSAND ORPHAN or WAIF CHILDREN are now in the Homes. Christian, Protestant and Evangelical" is the religious motto of the Association. The work is supported by all sections of Christendom. In their operations, all Christian people may, and do, join hands. Last year 6,780 Children (the Greatest Family in the whole world) were maintained in the Homes. Applications for urgent cases are received at any hour of the day or night. Destitute children of any age or creed, of either sex, and of any nationality, are eligible. Deaf or Dumb, Blind or Crippled Children, or those Diseased and already Given Over to Death, are, if destitute, always eligible. The most searching inquiry is made into every application, but NO REALLY DEstitute Boy OR GIRL IS Ever Rejected. Each case is determined solely upon its merits, without election and without the intervention of wealthy patrons. The Homes have, in the 33 years of their existence, admitted 38,605 Waifs and Strays, without any distinction as to age, sex, creed, or birthplace. In 1898 alone they admitted 2,406 fresh cases. From 50 to 60 Fresh Cases are admitted weekly during the winter months. About 1,500 Young Children are Boarded Out in rural districts, under careful supervision. Technical training in some one of the fourteen handicrafts carried on in the Homes is given to every Lad capable of receiving it. All the Girls are brought up in Cottages on the family system, or Boarded Out, and carefully instructed in the various branches of Domestic Service or Dressmaking. 10,660 Trained and Tested Children have already been placed out in the Colonies. Of these 98 per cent. have been successful. Three Lodging Houses and a Night Refuge, open in the Metropolis, and Ten "Ever Open Doors," in as many Provincial Towns, are accessible throughout all hours of the day and night to homeless Waifs and Strays seeking temporary shelter. These Homes co-operate actively with the N.S.P.C.C., and receive freely and at once all destitute cases recommended by that Society, or any of its Branches all over the kingdom. In all, these Institutions now comprise 91 distinct Homes, dealing with every age and class of destitute and needy childhood, and 18 Mission Branches. Funds are Urgently Needed for Food and Maintenance. Donations and Subscriptions gratefully received by the Treasurer, WILLIAM FOWLER, Esq.; by the Chairman of Council, HOWARD WILLIAMS, Esq.; by the Founder and Director, Dr. THOS. J. BARNARDO ; or by the Bankers, LONDON AND SOUTH-WESTERN BANK, and Messrs. PRESCOTT, DIMSDALE & Co. Offices: 18 to 26, STEPNEY CAUSEWAY, LONDON, E. iv L Advertisements. CONTRASTS. IFE is full of them. The Mansions of the very rich are near the dwellings of the distressingly poor : outside homes of happiness, the homeless and wretched fight their unequal combat with misery. The Contrasts are too vivid abounding wealth and unbounded poverty side by side. the ST. GILES' CHRISTIAN MISSION commenced its work amongst the Poor and Degraded in St. Giles. Now its operations are limited by no boundaries of parish or district, and confined to no one class. Whenever and wherever the Workers meet with the Sick, the Destitute, the Dying, the Homeless, the Sinful and the Erring, then and there they assist and counsel them. animate for further efforts, and pressing needs call for prompt attention. We want financial help for the maintenance of our Homes for Friendless Juvenile Offenders; Homes for Women and Girls; Discharged Prisoners, and for our work amongst Prisoners' Wives and Children, etc., etc., etc. Food, Firing, and Clothing are distribute I to the deserving poor. We beg a hearty and liberal response to our appeal. Banker: Messrs. BARCLAY & CO., 54 Lombard Street, E.C. Treasurer: F. A. BEVAN, Esq., D.L., J.P., 54 Lombard Street, E.C. Superintendent, WILLIAM WHEATLEY, 4, Ampton Street, Regent Square, London, W.C. BEGIN WITH THE CHILDREN" LORD SHAFTESBURY used to say, and he was right! RACCED SCHOOL UNION of which the great Philanthropist was the practical Founder and President to the end of his long and useful career. The Society has 150 Local Mission Centres in the congested districts of London. It touches at least 100,000 souls weekly through its manifold agencies, sustained by over 5,000 VOLUNTARY WORKERS. It has a sensible scheme for helping the bootless, clothing the ragged, and feeding the hungry. It has a Register of over 5,000 CRIPPLES n their own homes-poor afflicted little ones who need "MOST EVERYTHING." It sends away over 6,000 pale-faced children and adults to its Holiday Homes in the Country each year. It gives some 30,000 of the poor children a Day's Fresh Air. In varied other ways it relieves distress, encourages thrift and industry, and helps the most downtrodden to rise and to learn to help themselves. In a word, the Society is an embodiment of THE GOOD SAMARITAN. Funds are urgently needed. All gifts should be sent to RAGGED SCHOOL UNION, 37. NORFOLK STREET, STRAND, LONDON, W.C. Advertisements. THE SHELTERING HOME for Destitute Children. Boys admitted from ten to fourteen years TRAINS AND EMIGRATES boys and girls who have lost one or both parents. A close supervision is maintained until they are eighteen years old. 95 per cent. are successful. Many have to-day their own farms, shops, or other businesses. Some have risen to be ministers, doctors, lawyers, journalists and teachers. This Charity appeals to the generosity of those who feel for the helpless children of the poor and are willing to help them to help themselves. keeps a child a Month in the Home. of age. Girls from four to sixteen. Applications for admission to be addressed to MRS. BIRT, Sheltering Home, Myrtle Street, Liverpool. Contributions may be sent to above address or to Hon. Treasurer, E. C. THIN, Esq., 24, Chapel St., Liverpool. A CHRISTMAS DINNER IS GIVEN IN ST. GEORGE'S HALL TO FIVE THOUSAND OF THE STREET CHILDREN OF LIVERPOOL. HE BRIDGE OF HOPE has been AN OPEN DOOR in Ratcliff Highway for TWENTY-ONE THOUSANDS of WOMEN and CHILDREN have passed into its shelter, and through it have been led to honest and pure lives. DURING THIS PERIOD Ratcliff Highway has greatly changed its character, largely through the influence of THIS MISSION, and there is less open vice. IN CONSEQUENCE of this, the MISSION has, during the past few years, become largely PREVENTIVE; and the SAVING of CHILDREN who have been born into circumstances of great danger, is now its chief object. IN THE NIGHT SHELTER, REFUGE, and CHILDREN'S HOMES there are some 240 to be WHOLLY PROVIDED FOR, besides a great deal of other Mission Work in St. George's. The whole is most economically and carefully conducted, but to MAKE IT EFFECTIVE, £4000 IS NEEDED ANNUALLY. Of this, over £400 is EARNED BY THE YOUNG GIRLS IN TRAINING. MANY OF THOSE RESCUED from Ratcliff Highway in the EARLY YEARS of our WORK, are to-day living HONOURABLE and RESPECTABLE lives; while the CHILDREN, WHOM WE HAVE TRAINED IN OUR COTTAGE HOMES, are most of them living useful and happy lives at home and abroad. WE HAVE NO ENDOWMENTS. NO DEBT. NO FUNDS IN HAND. WE EARNESTLY DESIRE to celebrate our Coming of Age by obtaining the FREEHOLD of some of our CHINGFORD COTTAGES, and we are in PRESSING NEED of contributions FOR THE COMING WINTER. 28, BETT'S STREET, ST. GEORGE-IN-THE-EAST, MARY H. STEER. LONDON, E. vi Advertisements. THE Children's Home, Orphanage, & Refuge Chief Office: BONNER ROAD, LONDON, N.E. BRANCHES: LONDON, LANCASHIRE, BIRMINGHAM, FARNBOROUGH (HANTS), ISLE OF MAN, ALVERSTOKE, CHADLINGTON (OXON.), CANADA. Founder and Principal: REV. T. B. STEPHENSON, D.D., LL.D. Vice-Principal: REV. ARTHUR E. GREGORY. More than 4,300 children rescued. Nearly 1,100 now in residence. Amongst these children are the Orphan, Destitute, Epileptic, Crippled, Blind, Deaf and Dumb, and those who are otherwise Disadvantaged in Life's Race. The Children's Home is a distinctly religious Institution, but the teaching is wholly Evangelical and Unsectarian. Need, not Creed, decides the question of a child's admission. Remittances should be addressed to Rev. Dr. STEPHENSON, The Children's Home, Bonner Road, London, N.E. Reformatory and Refuge Union 32, CHARING CROSS, S.W. "To Seek and to Save that which was Lost." Patron-H.R.H. The PRINCE OF WALES, K.G. Bankers: Messrs. BARCLAY & Co., LTD., 1, Pall Mall East, S.W. THE chief aim of the union is to elevate and re claim the neglected and criminal classes, by educating them in the fear of God and the knowledge of the Holy Scriptures. It carries on three distinct works : 1. Promoting the Improvement and Extension of Preventive and Reformatory Efforts. 2. The Rescue and Training of Destitute and Neglected Children. 3. Sustaining direct Missionary efforts. These are:-Ist. A Woman's Mission to Women, which employs 22 Christian Female Agents, each with an assigned district. 2nd. Two Agents, better known as the Boys' Beadles, who are employed to look after the Waifs and Strays of the Metropolis. 3rd. Three Rescue Officers, who take children from the worst haunts of vice and misery, and place them under proper training. Contributions are earnestly requested towards these various objects. Annual Subscriptions especially solicited. DO YOU KNOW that there are 600 Theatres and Music Halls in London in connection with which upwards of 100,000 Persons are employed, of whom only the Smallest Fraction attain success? WHAT BECOMES OF THE REST? The Theatrical Mission has laboured for 26 years amongst these, seeking their temporal and spiritual welfare. Help is urgently needed to carry on the Winter's work. Weekly Free Teas are given to large numbers, followed by a bright Gospel Service. A Cheque or Postal Order tor I will ensure a free tea for 60 poor Chorus Girls and Pantomime Children. The Theatrical Mission, Macready House, Trustees: Contributions should be sent to the Secretary, |