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class. Pray tell the children that their truly Christian 

 Charity will go to help the sick with hunger typhus, 

 who are very numerous this terrible year. 



Allow me to express once more my most hearty 

 thanks and believe me 



Your most obedient and thankful servant, 



VLADIMIR BOBRINSKOY. 



Mr. W. Barnes Steveni, special correspondent 

 of the London >aily Chronicle, who had made a 

 tour through famine-stricken Russia early in 1892, 

 wrote as follows of his visit at the home of the 

 Bobrinskoys: 



On one of their estates they had established a 

 priute or Children's Home. This the Count took me 

 to in the afternoon. I found there dozens of children, 

 whose appearance bore eloquent testimony to the kind 

 treatment they had received. Some of the parents, 

 the Count told me, had died from cold, hunger, or 

 disease; the others were totally unable to provide for 

 their offspring. / 



In the management of this home the Countess 

 Bobrinskoy an exceedingly pretty and refined lady 

 found plenty of congenial and womanly occupation. 

 In spite of the atmosphere of the place being anything 

 but fresh, she, personally, saw that the wants of the 

 little ones were properly attended to. 'We are care- 

 ful," she said, "not to admit the little starvelings to 



