A SUGGESTION.
[To THE EDITOR OP THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—To those who are anxious to do something to help in this crisis, even in a small way, and with a desire only of inducing others to do likewise, may I relate my attempt to be useful ? On August 2nd, before war was declared, I went to a firm of advertising agents and asked for the names and addresses of one hundred mechanics' institutes, public libraries, &c., in the United States, and ordered ten addressed newspaper wrappers for each of the hundred institutes, &c., &c., and have sent off, day by day, as many newspapers, periodicals, as I could secure. The cost of the addressed wrappers was about 2s. per hundred. I am now repeating my order for another thousand. What a field there is in neutral European countries, South America, and the Colonies for others to do the same on a larger scale, and so assist in the formation of a sound public opinion on the war abroad!—I am, Sir, &c., A. B. [Excellent. We envy our correspondent his quickness and initiative in seeing where and how to do a useful piece of work.—En. Spectator.]
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