Studio: international art (42.1908)

Studio-Talk

and hoping for something
to turn up. Their existence
cannot be the happiest;
certainly it is not the most
useful. Distress often
comes to them when they
are least prepared to meet
it, and it comes to a class
who, as a whole, will not
beg for help, that is to say,
charity, or accept it if
offered. There are many
such. How, then, can they
be helped ?

This was a question
which was put to a meeting
of ladies and of gentlemen
who met at the Friends'
meeting house last
winter. Many schemes
were discussed, but the
toy-making industry was
selected. The promoters
of the Scarborough Winter
Industry, as it is called,
decided to start in a small
way, and, indeed, so quietly

TOYS made in workshop for unemployed started BY the scarborough did they WOrk that the funds

winter industry ^ ^

work was carried out were

portions of the memorial
have previously been illus-
trated in The Studio. The
whole work is now nearing
completion. H. B. B.

SCARBOROUGH.
—Many visitors
to the seaside in
holiday season
must wonder what becomes
in the winter of the various
people whose summer
occupation seems itself
nothing but pleasure. What
does become of them ?
Many emigrate to the large
cities and seek or engage in
winter employment there;
others—too many others
it i.s feared —remain behind ^^^^M^^^MB&BBf/Ai^jSSsB^ -• ~»

living carefully upon the « wbsselton-mine, kimberley " by hans vot.cker

earnings of the summer (See Berlin Studio-Talk)

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