We sincerely trust that Mr. Treves's appeal for the Chil-
dren's Country Holiday Fund will have the result of sending a very large number of subscriptions to the Secretary, No. 10 Bnckingham Street, Strand. But while doing all they can to give town children a country holiday, subscribers must not forget that their charity is the merest palliative to the evils of town life of which Mr. Treves spoke, and upon which our corre- spondent, Mr. Horsfall, has dwelt so often in our columns. Those evils remain, and must be attended to if the nation is to keep healthy in body and soul. At present the conditions under which the future men and women of England are growing up in our great towns are entirely inconsistent with physical, and so to a large extent with moral, sanity. We must face the problem of purifying the air of the big towns, and giving their dwellers something better than the sordid dreariness and meanness of their present surroundings. It is said they do not mind the squalor, but is not that the most appalling fact of all P We are breeding a race which does not mind mud and grime and foul air,—nay, prefers them.
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