At the Mansion House meeting in aid of the Metropolitan
Association for Befriending Young Servants (18 Buckingham Street, Strand), at which the Lord Mayor made so earnest an appeal for further funds for that most useful Association, it was not officially known that there is a special need just now for help in the necessity for replacing the laundry-home at Hampden House, Battersea Park, where twenty girls have been, and still are, lodged and taught to wash and iron, under the superintendence of two matrons, through the kindness of Mr. Helby, of the Steam Laundry Company, by some other suitable home of the same kind, which must now be established at the expense of the Associa- tion. As Mr. Helby can no longer continue to aid the Association in the way in which he has helped it for the last three years, by finding accommodation and work for these twenty girls, a similar institution must be founded at Green- wich or elsewhere by the Association, otherwise one of the most useful agencies for training, under careful supervision, girls not quite suited for household work, to remunerative labour, must be abandoned. Yet in the case of deaf girls, or girls hampered by any other slight deficiency which unfits them for domestic servants, such a home as this is quite invaluable, and we earnestly trust that the public will supply one of the simplest, most useful, and least risky of our chari- ties, with ample means for replacing the laundry-home of which they are about to be deprived.
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