16 DECEMBER 1916, Page 10

THE CURTAILMENT OF LUXURIES.

[To THE EDITOR or THE "Sesoraroa."I Sra,—Our soldiers in the trenches suffer awful hardships; they face death and suffering night and day without a grumble. They do not have tea and cakes and buttered toast. They do not have daily hot bathe and change their clothes twice a day. They do. not have clean towels, clean shirts, clean socks, clean handker- chiefs every day. Cannot we all curtail these luxuries and save labour and material? Are we too degenerate, too selfish, too self-indulgent to suffer little inconveniences for the sake of those

who are defending us?-1 am, Sir, &c., R. Corrox. Liwynon, Llanfair P.G., Anglesey.