IN the report of Life-boat Day in Greater London, in the last issue of The Lifeboat, it was stated that for the first time no buttons had been found in the collecting boxes. But buttons were, after all, given for the help of the Service—but in a very different way.

One of the collectors in St. Pancras tells us that she was stopped by an old woman who was selling a miscellaneous collection of small goods in the street, and the following conversation took place.

'' Are you collecting for the Life-boat, Miss ? " . . ~ T ? J ies.

'' Well, I ain't got no blooming money, but you saved my old man, so here's a packet of buttons. Sell 'em for the Life-boat.".