21 MAY 1910, Page 3

A letter in Tuesday's Times draws attention to the serious

injury which will be done to the drapery and clothing trades by the prolongation of general mourning to the end of July. "There will be no possibility," says the writer, "of disposing of the heavy stocks of coloured goods this season, and next year many of them will be out of fashion." We cannot help feeling that much of this injury would be avoided if the general mourning were brought completely to an end in June, without being followed by a period of half-mourning.