BARHAM HOUSE.

REFUGEE CENTRE.

CHILDREN EDUCATED.

One of the happiest centres for refugee children in Britain is Barham House, a beautiful, white-washed eighteenth century building, at Claydon, near Ipswich, Suffolk. The place, which was once a workhouse, stands in beautiful wooded grounds. It now houses ItHI German and Austrian children, to which have recently been added fifty from Danzig.

Barham House was once a Government constructional centre, and in its grounds are « number of bungalows., built oy those who were trained there. The hou.se is built in the shape of a quadrangle, and contains a disused chapel. The old workhouse mortuary is used as a storeroom. There are a dozen pigsties and a cow byre, and there are ambitious plans afoot for developing the place into -in agricultural centre. The children are living, on British public school lines, in four houses named after benefactors to the refugee cause. Thus, one is called Lord Baldwin, after the founder of the Lord Baldwin Fund, and another after Viscount Samuel, who founded the movement for the care of children from Germany. Each house is responsible for the cleaning of its own wing, and inter-house football is a frequent pastime. English lessons are given daily.