THE WAR GRATES.
[To THE EDITOR or rag " Sriersrox."1 Sta,—Toci narrow and fast rules may not be made as regards the memorials to our dear fallen soldiers in France and Flanders. The gates of the grave which no man openeth and no man closeth belong to God, and where our heroes lie surely it is enough to limit the size of headstone; but why banish the cross, the emblem which has taught men how to live and how to die ? Such a proposition as only to allow headstones of a uniform type is surely a grave error. Why prevent the suffer- ing relatives from adding the few words that they deem best as a tribute to the loved ones, to those who have given their lives to save their fellow-men ? Save us from red-tape over the graves. Let the father, the wife, the sister or brother set up (within a limit of sine) the cross or headstone that teems good to them, and so spare them more unnecessary sorrow or dis- tress, and help them to remember that "the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory that
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