If children creep into the majority of these suggestions to lonely women, it is because the writer believes that in children one may find real happiness. Perhaps, in some parish or another, there is a lonely woman with an income of anything between 100 and £250 a year. She is well-educated, has travelled, and has a faculty for lucidly describing that which she has seen in foreign parts. Why not inaugurate a series of lantern lectures for the edification of the children and even the adults of a lonely parish. The cost of a lantern is comparatively small, and in the neighbourhood of Charing Cross Road one can obtain any number of limelight-lanterns on hire, while the same firm that supplies the lantern will be able to supply slides. At the London Emigration Offices of some of the Overseas Dominion Governments, slides, depicting life in their particular colony, may be bo:rowed.

Here is another, and perhaps simpler, suggestion. The lonely woman may have a large garden, and be interested in botany. Let her encourage the children of the village to cultivate a tiny plot of that garden. Let them plant their own choice of seed, but explain the stages of development. It is out of such beginnings that garden cities are made. " But," you say, ' how can I, a lonely woman without a friend in the parish, encourage those children to come ? I cannot knock at every door and invite the parents to send the child." Certainly not ! The mind of the child is one of the most difficult of problems, and there is only one way of solving it. Always endeavour to give a child the impression that its mind is more comprehensive than your own. Let the child lead; you follow. Pretend inordinate interest in anything that it does, no matter how simple; correct it by suggestion, and you will understand the real meaning of the word appreciation.