"SOMETHING ATTEMPTED: SOMETHING DONE."

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LIII, Issue 222, 13 January 1911, Page 7

"SOMETHING ATTEMPTED: SOMETHING DONE."

What is more pathetic than a distressed child! Try to imagine your own little ones cast upon the" world—fatherless, motherless, and destitute! And vet there are thousands who but for Dr. Barnardo's Homes would have no shelter but the workhouse, and no prospect in life hut that of pauperism. Dr. Burnardo's Homes have been instrumental in rescuing 7-2,500 destitute and forlorn little ones and -training them for the battle of life. Their family is the largest in the world, numbering" 0044 boys and girls. An attractive little album has just,reached us, entitled "Something attempted': Something done," and shows the work they are doing—rescuing the raw material, "nobody's children," and moulding and shaping them morally and physically, and turning thern into klf-reliaiit.. selfrespecting good citizens and empire-build-crs. The album shows in pictures how '•the raw material" is moulded and turned out as - 'tihe finishul article." A contrast ca=e is given of a boy rescued when he was eleven years old; taught the .trade of a compositor in *e Home; emigrated nine years ago to Canada, where he is now following hiis trade, anil is also a volunteer in the Queen's Own Rifles. This lad recently visited England with his regiment, ami called to see the Homes which had done so much for him. And the cost was only ,£(l6 per annum for maintenance and training, and £lO for emigration Surely a. good investment! Another case is given of a motherless little cripple rescued from a terrible home of destitution, sin and misery; taught the trade of a bootmaker in the Technical Schools at tliK Stepnev Home; placed in a situation; now owns the business and a branch, for which he has recently engaged one of the Home boys. The destitute cripple thus helptd is now, in his turn, helping another destitute boy. A striking contrast is also shown of ten boys (who from their photographs bid fair to become young hooligans), being placed .in the scales of Dr. Barnardo's Homes and weighed; and on the other side "not found wanting,'' represented by a composite block of the same ten boys recently admitted to the Canadian Navy. Thus boys who, if not rescued, would probably Income a clmr*re upon the country, and might perhaps fall into evo, or even criminal ways, are inould'ed and trained to protect the Motherland and the British dominions beyond the seas.

Tih-se Humes have tnilv attempted somethiiiL', and by Hod's help they have accomplished something. Their Majesties the Kin.!i, Hie Queen mid Queen Alexandra are patrons, and our late King, Ed-1 ward VII., said, "Tliesr natinnnl institutions are carrying out a work dear to nil who wisli well to tiieir country." Help is needed to continue this great work of rescuinjr from the ranks of child destitution and misery ill* thousands of other hovs and o-irls who will apply at the •'Ever-open Doors" all over the Kingdom ilnrinsr the winter, at the rate of 34 per day. The boys and girls who thus apply are sheltered pending enquiries; they are i not allowed to sufl'er and starve while ! enquiries are being made; for tlieir need is urgent, and tlie charter of the homes j is, "No destitute child ever refused ad- [ mission," (lifts of all kinds—money, clothiing, blankets, toys, etc., will be specially welcomed bv the honorary director, Mr. William Baker, L.L.8., at headquarters, 18 to 2fl, Stepney Causeway, Loudon. E.