WOMEN AS POOR-LAW GUARDIANS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THR SPICOTATOR.1 have just come across an article with this heading in am old number of the Spectator, in which the writer asserts that "there is no public function to which women are so unmistakably adapted, none in which their influence would be so directly bene- ficial, as that of Guardians of the Poor ;" and that "their very disqualifications for ordinary public life will in this capacity be qualifications." Your readers will, perhaps, be interested to know that in this parish—St. Mary Abbotts, Kensington—a lady has this year been eleeted one of the Guardians. There has beea no agitation, merely the appearance of the name on the voting- paper, and not in the list of the local ratepayers' association, so- that the election has been deliberately made in the belief that a. woman may well do useful work on the Board of Guardians, as I
sincerely trust she may.—I am, Sir, &c., F. H. A. H.
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