THE LEGACY OF THE STABLES.
[To the Editor of . the SPECTATOR.] SIR,—I wonder whether you or any of your readers could tell me what has become of all the horse-cloths, blankets and other clothing that used to keep warm the numerous carriage- horses, cart-horses, ponies. and even donkeys in stables that now hold only soul-less hieehanical vehicles ? This clothing used to exist by millions in private stables, in the stables of large firms, distributing businesses, fire-brigades, to say nothing of disbanded squadrons of cavalry. Is much of it mouldering now in cupboards and chests where it keeps nothing warm except moths and their grubs ?
My reason for asking is that there would be such grievous waste in allowing any to go on mouldering like -that through this coming winter, while hundreds of thousands of human beings are perishing from cold and exposure. I am thinking particularly of the million Christian refugees in the Near East. Horses may be pagan (Mr. Pecksniff would regret to say) by nature, but most of them, if humanely treated, develop a kindly feeling towards mankind, and I feel that they would, if it were passible for them to express themselves so, jump at any chance of joining with the many human beings who arc sending their old clothes '(decently clean ones) to the Imperial War Relief Fund, at the. New Hibernia Wharf, London Bridge, S.E. 1, in answer to the urgent request made for warm things by Di. Nansen.—I am, Sir, &c., GERALD MILLER.
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