13 MARCH 1920, Page 15

Massingham's brilliant articles in the Spectator on the feather traffic

will find it difficult to understand why the Government of a so-called humane country does all in its power to hinder the passing of a Bill that would put an end to the most senseless slaughter ever• perpetrated. I, as an English girl, am ashamed of my countrywomen. Why cannot they, like the American, Australian, and Canadian women, show the British Govern- ment that there is a serious demand for such a Bill? The answer must be that the Colonial women have advanced farther on the path of culture, sympathy, and education than have their English sisters.—I am, Sir, &c.,

Whitcote, Hoylake, Cheshire. M. Ifoxon CAMPBELL.