M.A.B.Y .S.
1To THE EDITOR OF ens ..SPECTATOrt.") SIB —I am anxious, if possible, to brill.' the work of our Association to the notice of your readers, and to call their attention to our need of honorary workers. The Metropolitan Association for Befriending Young Servants (generally abbreviated to M.A.B.Y.S.) was founded in 1875, upon lines suggested by the late Mrs. Nassau Senior, for the purpose of looking after the young girls placed in domestic service from our various Metropolitan Poor Law schools (a large number of whom are practically friendless), and also of befriending young girls who come to our local offices wishing to enter domestic service, but are unable to do so for want of suitable clothes or because they cannot of themselves find suitable places. The 'girls are visited by ladies when placed they are pro- vided when necessary with safe lodgings while out of place: they are, when it seems desirable, trained in their 'duties : and they are cared for in sickness. There is a clothing Club where they are provided with clothes, which they pay for by monthly instalments out of their wages when placed. 'There are about eight hundred ladieff working With us, and about five thousand
nine hundred and forty.aix girls between fourteen and twenty under our care. We have thirty offices in different parts of London where mistresses in need of girls can meet girls in need of places on certain days and at certain hours. At one of our South London branches—St. Saviour's, Southwark—we are in need of an honorary secretary who would take charge of the office with the help of an efficient paid secretary and several volunteer helpers. She would have to give up two whole days a week, or the equivalent spread over certain days, and sometimes more than that. Any one interested in girls, and anxious to help them to something better than factory work, would find the work most interesting and satisfactory. Full particulars could be had by writing to the honorary secretary, M.A.B.Y.S., Polytechnic Institute, 103 Borough Road, S.E., or by calling there on a Friday by appointment to see her between eleven and one. The Polytechnic is fifteen minutes' walk from Waterloo Station.—I am, Sir, &c.,
Drylaw Hatch, Owshott, Surrey. S. E. Loon.
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