Six more examples of the way in which old age helps the life-boat service have to be added to those given in The Life-boat for September of last year.

An anonymous gift has come from " a poor old woman of eighty, but who admires these noble fellows," the life- boatmen.

Another comes from Paignton: "I enclose P.O. value 13s. 3d. towards your funds, as small Christmas gift from one in eighty-fourth year. A few coppers saved week by week. I trust, D.V., to do this yearly." A lady writes from Wimbledon: " I am sorry you have had the trouble of writing for my subscription; it was a simple oversight. I thought I had sent it. I have had to cut off many little charities, but I hope never to drop my life-boat subscription. But —you will excuse an old woman of ninety-one, too crippled with arthritis to leave her room, and hardly her chair, and so not able to look to her little affairs properly. As long as I live, and can, I will send my poor little guinea, and only wish I could do more for your splendid work." A lady of Kirkby Stephen, who is ninety-two, has sent two guineas.

» f A subscription of ten shillings has come from Sidcup from a man nearing his hundred and first birthday, who has subscribed for seventy-five years.

Another subscription of ten shillings has come from a Scottish lady, 104 years old..