Among the minor charitable organisations of London not the least admirable
and useful is the Santa Claus Home at Highgate, which the two Misses
CHARLES have been administering with such devotion and success since 1891.
Its modest aim is to keep open twenty beds for small children suffering
from hip and spinal disease, and to give them such treatment as will
prevent them becoming hopeless cripples; and this purpose hitherto has been
fulfilled no one can say exactly how, but with help not only from known
friends but mysteriously from the ravens. To-day, however, the high cost of
living has set up a very serious obstacle, and debt and failure seem
inevitable unless five hundred pounds can be collected quickly. Any reader
of _Punch_ moved to bestow alms on as sincere and deserving a a work of
altruism as could be found is urged to send a donation to Miss CHARLES,
Santa Claus Home, Cholmeley Park, Highgate, N.6.
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"Although its run in the evening bill must necessarily be limited to
two weeks, steps will be taken to remove it to other quarters should it
prove to the taste of the public. _That failing, it will continue to be
given at the ---- Theatre for a series of matinées._"--_Daily Paper._
The italics are ours, though it is not really our funeral, as we never go
to matinées.
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[Illustration: SALVAGE.