render it possible to have an order for payment made in one State collected and remitted by an officer in another State.  By this means thousands of pounds a year could be saved to the various States, and many a child prevented from becoming a burden to the people at large.  These are some of the problems awaiting solution and the women of South Australia will do well to make the salvation of these neglected waifs a personal care and responsibility.  Perhaps no other work of the State Children’s Council has more practically shown their appreciation of the capabilities of the children under their care than the establishment of the State children’s advancement fund.  This is to enable State children who show any aptitude, to pursue their education through the continuation schools to the University.  To private subscriptions for this purpose the Government have added a subsidy of 50 pounds, and already some children are availing themselves of this splendid opportunity to rise in the world.  The longer I live the prouder I feel that I have been enabled to assist in this splendid work for the benefit of humanity.

The years as they passed left me with wider interests in, deeper sympathies with, and greater knowledge of the world and its people.  Each year found “one thing worth beginning, one thread of life worth spinning.”  The pleasure I derived from the more extended intellectual activity of my later years was due largely to my association with a band of cultured and earnest women interested in social, political, and other public questions—­women who, seeing “the tides of things,” desired so to direct them that each wave of progress should carry the people to a higher place on the sands of life.  To the outside world little is known of the beginnings and endings of social movements, which, taken separately, perhaps appear of small consequence, but which in the aggregate count for a great deal in what is popularly known as the forward movement.  To such as these belonged an interesting association of women, which, meeting at first informally, grew eventually into a useful organization for the intellectual and moral development of those who were fortunate enough to be associated with it.  This was the “Social Students’ Society,” of which Miss A. L. Tomkinson was the secretary and I the first President.  One of the addresses I gave was on “Education,” and among others whose addresses helped us considerably was the Director of Education (Mr. A. Williams).  Speakers from all parties addressed the association, and while the society existed a good deal of educational work was done.  Much interest was taken in the question of public playgrounds for children, and we succeeded in interesting the City Council in the movement; but, owing to lack of funds, the scheme for the time being was left in abeyance.