The letters are, to be sure, of great variety, from all sorts of people in every condition of life, and indeed, from all parts of the world.

Four-fifths of these letters are, however, requests for money for personal use, with no other title to consideration than that the writer would be gratified to have it.
There remain numbers of requests which all must recognize as worthy of notice.

These may be divided, roughly, as follows: The claims of local charities.

The town or city in which one lives has a definite appeal to all its citizens, and all good neighbours will wish to cooeperate with friends and fellow townsmen.

But these local charities, hospitals, kindergartens, and the like, ought not to make appeal outside the local communities which they serve.