ALLOWANCES FOR OFFICERS' WIDOWS. (To TIM Emma or Tea ..Srscuron."1
SIR,—I read from time to time many references to the allow, ance for soldiers' wives and suggestions for adequate pensions to the widows of fallen soldiers. Scarce a word in the sariti
strain do I hear concerning the well-being of the belongings of officers. Is it nobody's business P As one who is not without military training and some active service, and who is now packing up to offer himself at home for whatever he is considered fitted, the question is of some urgency. I gather that my wife (or rather widow !) may expect on any retirement from this world—if that calamity befall me in Flanders—some £40 to £10 a year. Is that all any country can do for my belongings ? I believe it is less than the wife of a private soldier with a child gets. How many men such as I, ready, keen to risk the great sacrifice, are appalled at the prospect of the starvation of "genteel poverty" for one's belongings, and perhaps draw back ? Perhaps I am wrong; if so, Spectator,
Put me, put us, right —I am, Sir, lac., AFRICANDER.
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