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 theater. Only the members of the commissions will have access to the steps.

“The commission will be composed of Messrs. Ringuier, Tricotteaux and Charles Deschamps, Counsellors of the Arrondissements, and the persons who happen to have the cards bearing numbers 200, 400, 600, 800, 1000, 1200, 1400, 1600, 1800, 2000, 2200 are requested to join them as witnesses.

“The 15 winning numbers will be immediately posted up.”

This incident in St. Quentin, at which members of the Christian Science War Relief Committee were present, was typical of the dignified method of distribution of all the refugee garments of the Comforts Forwarding Committee; and it is interesting to note that even the poster announced that it was to be a distribution of Christian Science, although it is hardly to be supposed that the authors thereof realized the truth of the statement. It is evident that the loving, comforting thoughts of this Committee accompanied the garments.

It was the desire of the War Relief Committee to send the Comforts Forwarding articles where they were most needed. One such place was Nantes, the fifth largest city in France. Already burdened with its own poor, the distress and suffering were greatly increased by the large number of refugees allotted to it because of its size. In addition to many cases of clothing which were sent here and apportioned to the families where instant relief was needed, ten cases of uncut flannel were given to the Society for the Aid of Widows and Orphans. Headquarters were opened, and the women who could work came there and themselves made garments from the flannel—a bit of constructive work with value.

Another industry in which the material of the