WOMEN AND WAR.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR.")
SIE,—In taking my weekly treat by perusal of your issue of the 9th inst. I read in your article "To Our Fellow-Countrywomen ": For the first time in the history of the world, women and girls have been called upon to play a gallant and active part in the conduct of war." It would have been better for this letter to have been written by a lady, perhaps, but surely every Englishwoman will allow precedence to the women of Carthage. Does not Rollin say ?— " The temples, the palaces, the open markets and squares were all changed into so many arsenals where men and women worked night and day. . . and because they wanted materials to make ropes, the Women cut off their hair and abundantly supplied their wants on this occasion."
--I am, Sir, &c., LAURENCE C. PERKINS. 84 Hazelbank Road, Catford, S.E. 6.
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