IN A GOOD CAUSE.
Among the minor charitable organisations of London not the least admirable and useful is the Santa Claus Home at Highgate, which the two Misses Charles have been administering with such devotion and success since 1891. Its modest aim is to keep open twenty beds for small children suffering from hip and spinal disease, and to give them such treatment as will prevent them becoming hopeless cripples; and this purpose hitherto has been fulfilled no one can say exactly how, but with help not only from known friends but mysteriously from the ravens. To-day, however, the high cost of living has set up a very serious obstacle, and debt and failure seem inevitable unless five hundred pounds can be collected quickly. Any reader of Punch moved to bestow alms on as sincere and deserving a a work of altruism as could be found is urged to send a donation to Miss Charles, Santa Claus Home, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, N.6.
"Although its run in the evening bill must necessarily be limited to two weeks, steps will be taken to remove it to other quarters should it prove to the taste of the public. That failing, it will continue to be given at the —— Theatre for a series of matinées."—Daily Paper.
The italics are ours, though it is not really our funeral, as we never go to matinées.
