WOMEN'S SHARE IN PATRIOTISM. [To TER EDITOR OF TMI "SPECTATOR :]
suppose it is no exaggeration to state that the men of this country are at last fully aroused to our extreme national peril, and intend to see that our sea and laud forces are reorganised and brought, up to the pitch of efficiency necessary for security ; but is it not just as important that the women, too, should awake and realise the
part that they are now called upon to play ? I mean the education of their sons in the real meaning of the word "!,Patriotism." Nowadays wo often hear the idea expressed that when a woman has borne two or three eons she has "done her duty to her country." Surely this is not enough. The mother needed in England now is she who will teach her boys from their earliest infancy that it is the duty of every citizen to make the necessary sacrifice of time and pleasure to become efficient in the bearing of arms, and so to be ready to defend his country whenever the need should arise. If only the mothers of the country would realise the great responsibility that lies with thorn in this matter, I think the safety of the Empire would be more fully aaenved.—I am,
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