Lodging-houses to which women in their hour of sore need may turn with the certainty that their self-respect will not be destroyed.

But under the present conditions decent women have no chance of retaining their decency or recovering their standing in social life.
Listen again! a widowed tooth-brush maker speaks to us: "Dear Mr.
Holmes, I feel that I must thank you for still allowing me a pension, and I do thank you so much in increasing it.

When I received it my heart was so full of joy that I could not speak.

My little boys are growing, and they require more than when my husband died six years ago.

I am sure it has been a great struggle, but I have found such a great help in you, I do not know how to thank you for all that you have done for me and many poor workers.
"I do hope that God will still give you health and strength to carry on the good work which you are doing for us.