Excerpt from Twenty-Second Annual Report of Friends' Home for Children (Non-Sectarian), 1903At this time there is a deficit in the treasury of We, therefore, earnestly ask our kind friends to come to our assistance and aid us in making up the shortage, and if pos sible help us to pay Off the mortgages which are against our property, the payment of the interest on which drains our resources very much and prevents us from doing as much good as would otherwise be possible.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.