[To vas Eons or THE " SPECTATOR."]
STR,—Your article is well timed. Reform is greatly needed. Will it be believed that educated and well-bred girls who before the war broke out had qualified in First Aid and Home Nursing, who made their services available as soon as war broke out, and who since then have done excellent work and had large experience in nursing under a " duration " engagement, are to-day con- demned to the monotonous work of scrubbing baths and sweeping floors ? That is not fair to the girls, who are really being penalized for their forethought and patriotism—they would have fared much better had they stayed at home in ease and enlisted late in the day in some of the new and more favoured Services. It is not fair to the nation, which has no resources to waste in
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