3 NOVEMBER 1888, Page 3

Mrs. Temple,—the wife of the Bishop of London,—writes a good

letter to Tuesday's Times in favour of what she calls " an inebriate home for women," which is just what she does not mean; the home is to be a home for inebriate women, but it is not to be an inebriate home ; quite the reverse. We suppose this curious transposition of the adjective is made by way of avoiding the application of a disagreeable adjective to the patients of the home. But when the true meaning is so very obvious, and when it is so very essential to the success of the home that the meaning should be emphatically expressed, it is surely not very wise to spoil the English of the institu- tion's name, for the sake of an inappreciable delicacy of_ expression.