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Press, Volume LX, Issue 11730, 3 November 1903, Page 4

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS beds are- made up nightly. As a mark of "tier approval, the late Queen Victoria voluntarily expressed the wish ihat the "Bests might be called the Royal Sailors' Rests, and she supported one cabin out of her Privy Purse. Xo sailor is too poor nor too depraved to be received into these homes. The Portsmouth "Rest" possesses ail the comforts of home, the sociability cf a club, and the evangelical effort of an all-the-year-rouud mis- ■''««. It has a huge- restaurant, rending is, library, recreation rooms, class rooms, rooms for petty officers, baths, six hundred lockers, and a quiet room to which Christian seamen may retire for meditation and mutual help. It has two ha!":s, one seating three hundred, the other a thousand. Besides the work far the .-ailors, a great deal ii done .'or the sailors' wives and ohiidren. "Jack" thinks nothing of carrying to-day and !?oinsj of? for a year's cruise tomorrow, and but k-r the helping hand held out to tho=e left their condition would sometimes be far from happy. The wives are invited to trie "Rests" to the meetings, and to the fecial gsiher- ...-_•-. work ii sl s o found for ih ::•: in connection with the Needlework Guild. Such, then, is the outcome of writiii" f. sinele Mter to a lonely man. and Miss Weston's noble work is, 'as we stated at the onset, known the world over, and for carrying on which sbe nut onlv receives the approval of Royalty, but has the heartfelt thank-* of of the King's subjects, and is worthy to claim as being the "Best Woraiti