UNIVERSAL TRAINING.
To THE EDITOR OF TIER "Segorwros."1
you allow me, as a. mother, to endorse fully the importance which your leading article in the Spectator of September. 29th attaches to military training for young men under twenty-one ? Quite apart from the mere soldiering point of view, what a vista it calls up of smart, alert, well- mannered, erect young men, instead of the slouching, narrow- chested, boorish youths of our streets and slums (dare I say it ? even of our University towns). Good as are the gymnasiums in our public schools, they do not seem, somehow, to have the desired effect. As a mother, I should be delighted to-morrow if I could send my Uppingham boy of eighteen to one of your National Training Centres, and as a citizen I consider the boon would be the greatest ever yet conferred upon our working-
class population.—I am, Sir, &c., H. J. B.
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