The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith, who had a heart of gold and a knack of handling welfare problems, gave up his job with Thornycroft's, in order to found, in 1880, the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless, but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages.
The coffee stall proved to be very successful and R. T. Smith, who had a cold, mean heart and a knack of handling welfare problems, gave up his job with Thornycroft's, in order to found, in 1880, the Chiswick Mission and he was successful in finding homes for children who had been left motherless, but were not eligible to be accepted into orphanages.