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Crown Prince is the head. They have collected a 

 large amount of money and are distributing it with 

 much wisdom. It is interesting to note that the 

 highest classes of Russian society are taking up this 

 work of relief with great enthusiasm. The nobility is 

 doing admirably, and it is not only confined to the 

 men of rank; the women old and young, married and 

 single, are vying with each other in their efforts to 

 help their stricken country-people. 







Many young women of this class are at the head of 

 the soup kitchens in the interior. They are labouring 

 day and night, not as ornamental figureheads, but 

 they lead in the work and set a good example that is 

 thus more eagerly followed by those under them. The 

 taste of practical and useful employment that many 

 of these people of high rank and birth perhaps now for 

 the first time enjoy may be of immense value to them 

 and their country in the future. Many men and 

 women do not know what they are capable of doing. 

 If they once start in the right direction they will 

 follow it, and, instead of leading lives of uselessness 

 and indolence, bound only to seek the pleasure of 

 this world, they may learn that there are higher aims 

 in life, and that to ''love thy neighbour as thyself" 

 gives more satisfaction than not to know that we have 

 any neighbours at all. 



The generous spirit which prompted our people to 

 respond so liberally to the appeal of the Russian 

 Famine Relief Committee of Philadelphia, will never 



