THE METHODIST ORPHANAGE
TO TBS IDITOB OF TKE PRBSS. Sir,—To-day saw the opening of a very beautiful building, and to-night I am thinking whether it is not just as important to build beautiful bodies also, as I heard from a most reliable source thst the children being reared in the home are not allowed to have butter, only porridge, bread, and jam for breakfast, this in a land overflowing with butter. Of course, we know in our grandparents' day it was considered extravagant to eat both at once, but now even the most uninformed should know how valuable an article of food butter is, it seems unbelievable that children should be deprived of it. Only the strongest sense of duty has made me write this, and as I have been subscribing to your paper for more than 20 years I hope you will spare an inch or two of space for it, also that someone else will take this up.—Yours, etc., E.M.H. November 9, 1934. [When this letter was referred to Mr A. E. Haynes, manager of the orphanage, he said that the statement was wholly incorrect, and that every day without exception the children are given a fair quantity of butter which was of the best grade.]
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Press, Volume LXX, Issue 21320, 13 November 1934, Page 8
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