THE TIDINESS OF RURAL ENGLAND.
ITO THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."]
SIR,—Your vivid and picturesque article in the Spectator of August 14th on "The Tidiness of Rural England" has stimulated your correspondent, the President of the Liverpool Ladies' Sanitary Association, to inquire : "Is not the ugliness of English cities accentuated by the masses of dirty paper and rubbish allowed to lie for hours in our streets P " &c. A similar question was asked by the late Lord Randolph Churchill in the Times shortly before his death. Will you allow me space to press upon your readers, and through their influence upon others, that it is foolish to expect decent behaviour in the poor and miserable while the surroundings are such as your correspondent describes ? If the main thoroughfares are untidy in the last degree, how can one hope that the back slums and the lodgings and inhabitants thereof will be cleanly and tidy, and if uncleanly and untidy, how can one hope that the inhabitants will be otherwise than drunken an
Police Magistrate, Clerkenwell.
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