1 JUNE 1918, Page 12

[TO THE EDITOR OP THE " SPECTATOR.")

SIR,—My mother once called on a lady in a German town who took a " select number " of resident pupils. A sister of mine was to be one. The housekeeper, however, received my mother with regrets and apologies, saying that Madame had only that very morning " accompanied the pensioners into vacancy in wagons."—I am,