SUFFERING WOMEN SIR,—As your correspondent G. Valentine Morgan suggests, it
might be possible for some arrangement to be made presently for showing German women how great is the power of love by receiving them as guests into homes in this country, with, as she (I think) feels would be necessary, strict supervision by some outside authority to prevent their being asked to help with houiehold duties, these, presumably, being undertaken, in the absence there will be of domestic assistance, by the hostess. But will there not be thousands of women of Allied countries who may have suffered im- prisonment, and even torture, at the hands of Germans during the time of enemy occupation, and who have had their homes destroyed and husbands and families massacred, who (if, as the writer of the letter referred to says, they have retained their reason) might first be offered hospitality and affection? All those overflowing with amiable good-nature towards everybody, no matter how the recipients have "offended these little ones," might read with interest the refreshingly human remark made by St. Paul about one Nexander, the coppersmith.—! am, Sir, Your
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