per week, one quarter to one half of which must be paid for rent.
Concerning the futility of the people who try to help, I wish to make one notable, noble exception, namely, the Dr.Barnardo Homes.

Dr.Barnardo is a child-catcher.

First, he catches them when they are young, before they are set, hardened, in the vicious social mould; and then he sends them away to grow up and be formed in another and better social mould.

Up to date he has sent out of the country 13,340 boys, most of them to Canada, and not one in fifty has failed.

A splendid record, when it is considered that these lads are waifs and strays, homeless and parentless, jerked out from the very bottom of the Abyss, and forty-nine out of fifty of them made into men.
Every twenty-four hours in the year Dr.Barnardo snatches nine waifs from the streets; so the enormous field he has to work in may be comprehended.
The people who try to help have something to learn from him.