THE WOMEN'S CLUB.
1To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I appeal again this year for the Women's Club in Tabard Street, which draws so much of its sustenance from readers of the Spectator ? The work amongst mothers which we began last year has already grown to such proportions that the club has outgrown the club-room. Eighteen hundred garments have been sold in the year, and I am glad to say they have learnt that better materials prove cheaper in the end.
That our lending library is doing good work, the following conversation will prove :—" This is a beautiful book," said a girl from one of the workshops to the lady superintendent the other day. "Thirty girls at our work have read bits, and I told them the rest. Forewoman can't make out what's come to us, we're so quiet at dinner ; we don't run about now chaffing the chaps." Others tell us of how their fathers and brothers read the books, and beg to keep them another week. Thus the good seed seems spreading, and if we had only more money we might open another club.
May I add that we are starting a workshop for tailoresses as a practical attempt to counteract the evil of sweating, for which help is also urgently needed.—I am, Sir, &c.,
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