HELP FOR THE ARMENIANS.
[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]
Sta,—The curious lack of response on the part of women to the appeal for help made on behalf of the Armenians has been much commented on. Are we growing more in- different to human suffering ? Or is it the result of the restlessness of the age that, while thousands of women can afford the pleasure of riding bicycles, comparatively few seem willing to part with a little money to relieve the cruelly persecuted victims of Turkish misrule? We are told how women and even children denied themselves many small luxuries during the struggle for the abolition of slavery. Surely the same spirit will prompt the women of England once more to do the little that can be done for the oppressed, and not allow our fellow- Christians in Armenia to reproach us with the words, "Is it nothing to you all ye that pass by ?"—Subscriptions may be sent to Mrs. Cole, 3 Trebovir Road, South Kensington, W.—I am,
Stc., ADA ELLEN BAYLY ("EDNA LYALL.") [The trite reason for the smallness of the Armenian sub- scription, which we nevertheless regret, is the British feeling that the wrong done is too big to be met by any subscription. The Armenians must be freed by fighting, their own or that of their friends.—En. Spectator.]
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