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[To rat Ems. or rag " Sescryvoz."] Sta,—As yet another

mother, one of whose eons lies in France, I crave space to make two euggeshoin—quite short and easily carried out. One, that if the present plan of uniform stones with oral top be adopted, one side of the stone should bear the official, uniform inscription, and that the neat-of-kin should be allowed to do as they please on the other side, subject only to a censorship to prevent the very small danger of any blas- phemous or obscene words being chosen. The other, that graves in existing French churchyards—many of them already marked with a memorial stone and well tended—should be left as they are. My own son's grave is in such a place, and I sympa- thize deeply with what Mrs. Rosalie Armstrong says in your