15 JULY 1916, Page 12

THE NATIONAL ECONOMY EXHIBITION.

)TO THE EDITOR OF THE " SPECTATOR.")

Sta,—The article, " The National Economy Exhibition," in the Spectator for July 8th, raises hopes that wo central-class folk may be positively " happy though servantless " ; but what is the use of making our mouths water when the water itself is denied us by time and money / All of us can't take a trip to London Town. Some genial, wealthy, leisured man might actively " do his bit " were he to be enterprising enough to take around the countryside a travelling show of this economy bag of tricks. Failing that, a similar Exhibition might be arranged in some half-a-dozen provincial centres. Surely the scientific management of the home is appealing more and more to every intelligent woman ; hence everything that induces the smooth-running of the household is