DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.

Horowhenua Chronicle, 20 December 1911, Page 2

DR. BARNARDO'S HOMES.

| Tun executive of Dr. Barna'rdo'.s . Homes is making its animal appeal for funds to further t-he work of the institution. A circular letter iust to band reads as follows"TV Mother died from starvation last December." This is one sentence in til© I'cvord of little 8a ivili ami Jane, aged nine and four, and suffices to tell tlio whole tragic story. A good Avife and mother; a decent husband ; tramping week after week in search of work; these are the outstanding features in this sad narrative; and the need, after a.ll the striving, is "Death from starvation." Think of it! The hard unequal struggle to keep death from the door in this land of civilisation—willing to work, seeing wife and children wanting hare necessities and yet unable to provide them. Tlie heartrending pity of it! Enough to drive man or woman to desperation under the strain. These are two of the thousands of children whom, by God's 'help, we are able to succour.