15 DECEMBER 1900, Page 14

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—" Collops " had

yet another meaning in the North of England fifty years ago, and may, for all I know, still have it. My grandmother, a Westmoreland woman, told me that in her youth on the Monday following Palm Sunday every household had little rolls of fried bacon, and the day was known as " Collop Monday."—I am, Sir, &c., M. P.