1 MARCH 1902, Page 15

[TO THE EDTIOIS OF TEZ "SPECTATOR.")

STE,—Referring to the article in the Spectator of Feb- ruary 22nd on "Class Distinctions amongst the Poor," the vicar of a large East End parish told me that when he took bis schools, numbering some seven hundred, into the country for their annual treat there were amongst them about two hundred children of unskilled labourers and of agricultural labourers, who had been attracted to London in the vague hope of better employment. With these two hundred the rest, being children of the artisan class, absolutely refused to play. The clergyman's wife kindly went apart with these poor little pariahs and did what she could to make the day a

happy one for them.—I am, Sir, &c., BENWELL BIRD. Wychbury, Mannamead, Plymouth.