The photographs of them are simply dreadful.

I had the committee to luncheon the other day and we passed them around.

We are getting subscriptions from all over the State, and Mr.Cedarquist is to arrange for the ship." The Relief Committee in question was one of a great number that had been formed in California--and all over the Union, for the matter of that--to provide relief for the victims of a great famine in Central India.

The whole world had been struck with horror at the reports of suffering and mortality in the affected districts, and had hastened to send aid.
Certain women of San Francisco, with Mrs.Cedarquist at their head, had organised a number of committees, but the manufacturer's wife turned the meetings of these committees into social affairs--luncheons, teas, where one discussed the ways and means of assisting the starving Asiatics over teacups and plates of salad.
Shortly afterward a mild commotion spread throughout the assemblage of the club's guests.

The drawing of the numbers in the raffle was about to be made.