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Immediate Allowances without Voting: Widowed, Fatherless, and Distressed. To widows, being natives of Scotland, as
also to Scotsmen's widows of other nationality, whose families have, in either case, been left unprovided for, allowances
are given for the maintenance of their children up to the close of their school period. Over one hundred widows in the condition
described are in actual receipt of assistance for the upbringing of about three hundred children. Allowances and donations
are given, moreover, to deserving natives of Scotland upon whom misfortune and poverty have fallen. Applicants for these allowances
have to be recommended by a Governor; then, after considerate, but thorough investigation, their cases are laid before the
Committee of Management, and allowances apportioned according to the respective circumstances. This charity is bestowed in
the form of either a monthly allowance of from 12s. 6d. to 20s. so long as the need lasts, a donation amounting to not more
than 5, or occasionally a free passage to friends in Scotland. Relief to the Destitute. Immediate relief is given by
the Secretary to any deserving native of Scotland who, through want of work, illness, or other cause, is temporarily destitute.
The help is rendered by orders for the supply of lodging, food, or clothing. As a rule no money is given, and when, by way
of exception, money is given, it is in sums rarely exceeding 5s. During the year over 2,000 persons are thus relieved. Beneficence
of the Charity. In the ways above specified it is sought to assist as far as possible, according to their several necessities,
all natives of Scotland needing and deserving help. The aged and the permanently invalided are granted pensions or monthly
allowances, enabling them, with aid from friends, to live either in homes of their own, free from harassing care, and in some
measure of comfort, or as welcome guests in the homes of sons and daughters not in a position to wholly support them. The
mother afflicted by the loss of the breadwinner, and anxiously facing the darkened future, is sustained and cheered by a donation
providing for immediate wants, and inspired with fresh hope in the assurance that in the days to come she will still be enabled
to maintain a home and bring up her fatherless children. The sick, again, are happily tided across the interval of pain and
weakness. The anxious for work but unfortunate, struggling in a prolonged ebb of fluctuating trade, are helped to redeem pledged
tools or clothes, have their rent guaranteed, and thereby a shelter assured them, while, in addition, every effort is made
to assist them in regaining employment. The Charity s Needs. To carry on this beneficent work to an extent and with an
efficiency creditable to Scotland the actual funds of the Charity are inadequate. The Committee of Management confidently
appeal, therefore, to every Scotsman wherever resident, and to everyone who by reason of descent, family ties, education,
business, or residence has a connection with Scotland and Scottish affairs, to aid them in rendering this great Charity still
more worthy of its traditions and more able to discharge its growing responsibilities. THE 248TH ANNUAL FESTIVAL WILL BE
HELD ON SATURDAY, 30th NOVEMBER, 1912 (ST-ADREW S, DAY), AT 6.40 FOR 7 P.M. PRECISELY, IN THE KING'S HALL, HOLBORN RESTAURANT,
W.C. The Right Honourable ARTHUR JAMES BALFOUR, M.P., IN THE CHAIR. Tickets for the Banquet, ONE GUINEA each, are now
ready. ROYAL SCOTTISH CORPORATION, CRANE COURT, FLEET STREET, E.C. T. R. MONCRIEFF, Secretary.