Cast-off clothing is greatly needed. Old garment and rags are used to supply work for those who woul otherwise need relief, and the work is made a means training for self-support.

The Charity Organization Society will send for pack ages, Address, 105 East 22d Street. Telephone, S 18th Street. If parcels are sent, kindly mark them fo "The Workrooms for Unskilled Women," 516 Wes 28th Street.

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CHARITIES appears this Charities." week in a new dress. To substitute an idiom of boyod for the shop-talk of the printingce, it would, perhaps, be more accurate say, it is going into long trousers. For, m now on, CHARITIES will reach its ders with a longer page, a broader broader ge, more words to the page, and, we ist, as much serviceability to the word. For this slight physical change in HARITIES is planned as the expression its editorial policy-an expansion along rtain lines, retrenchment in others. (The technical departments of CHARIEs will be omitted from the magazine umber published the first Saturday of ch month. They will be omitted only reappear in a departmental numbere third Saturday-which, it is hoped, ill be found strong in its discussion of e problems and the progress along those tal lines of social work and study which eal with the dependent, the delinquent, id the deficient, and their relations to e state and the community and to priite initiative. In this number will apear the specialized and more thorough apers, and many of the most valuable ontributions from the associate editors f CHARITIES Who well uphold the tradiions of the Charities Review. A comrehensive survey of legislation pending his winter in two score of states, and havng a bearing in a variety of ways upon his field, will appear in the first-the 'ebruary-departmental number.

And what of the regular magazine umber? That will give more heed to the ompunctions of time and interest on the art of the general reader. Those phases f philanthropic effort of whatever sort

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which appeal more especially to the laymind will find space here articles which should give a busy man a glimpse of current questions from the social viewpoint and a grasp of "what this charity business is about anyway"-articles which can be picturesque in that they show life in a different perspective-not only how the other half lives, as Mr. Riis puts it, but how the other half looks at life, and how, indeed, the men and women whose work lies among them look at it.

There was an example of one or another of these things when Dr. Weyl told of the relief system of the mine workers (the Review of Reviews stated that CHARITIES was the only publication to take up this phase of the great coal strike); when Mrs. Kelly sounded a warning which others had failed to see in the fall of the great industrial states in the scale of literacy among children; when Dr. Shaffer foretold the social results among the children of America, which are following the visit to this country of Adolf Lorenz. A long list of articles throughout the year could be marshaled in kind.

A justification of this change can come only with an increase in the circle of general readers interested in CHARITIES, and interested the more through CHARITIES in the charitable activities it describes. It is here that our present circle of subscribers can be of assistance as some of them have been in the past-in suggesting CHARITIES to their friends and in sending us the names of those they may think interested, those they may wish to interest. And for all such courtesies in the future, as in the past, however trivial they may seem to the doer, CHARITIES extends its thanks most heartily.