TWO BIRDS wiTir ONE STONE.
(To THE EDITOT or one " Sezereroa."1
Stit,—On getting in my pass-book, I find I have T200 surplus. If I buy War Loan, I shall be investing it to my own profit. If I give it to war charities, I shall be diverting it from the national offensive. What is one to do ? I asked my wife, who said " Why can't you do this: send it to war charities on the understanding that they put it into War Loan and have the interest for them- selves ?" This struck me as a fine idea. Then this occurred to me: that I ehould send it to you and ask you if you would be so scry kind, busy as you are, to send it to permanent war charities, on the understanding that each recipient shall invest it in War Loan for account of the charity : you, of course, to have an absolutely free hand to give it where you like. I know that I am asking you to do my work for me, but I make the request—with much diffidence and hesitation—for Ova reasons: first, that your selection will probably be better than my own; and, second, that probably others of your readers may be in my difficulty and may be glad to know of such a solution. So I venture to enclose the cheque to your order, as the worst that can happen to um is to get it back again!
A lady I know has just come back from nursing blinded " Totanties." Site says that it is pathetic beyond all words. Ono poor chap, in addition to being stone blind, had lost both his hands at the wrist. To the visiting surgeon who asked Ilion clwerily how be fared, he returned: " I'm broke, Sir, broke! " How can tiny of as put money by, even to invest in War Loan, when so many brave young chaps are utterly broke as the result of fighting for us! So I enclose my elletple, Sir, and hope you will not send it
back to me.—I ma, Sir, ffe., Too OLD TO FRIT. [Our most generous correspondent will find the solution of his problem in the letter from the Duke of Connaught printed on the previous page. We Imre sent the cheque for .ff200 to King George's Fund fur Sailors. to he invested in War Loan on behalf of perma- nent charities of the Mercantile Marine. No class deserves more and needs more than stir seamen and their dependants; and if we think spevially of the Merehant Navy, it is because its seamen have had the ride of fighting man thrust on them, as it were, by necident. They- were invited to become heroes, and they accepted the invitation. If our readers could know who our correspondent is, they would probably share our belief that our choice of a destinar for his money will be peculiarly satisfactory to Mtn.— I'D. Spectator.]
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