SCHOOL TREATS v. COUNTRY HOLIDAYS.
[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—There is a practical side to this question which I should like to lay before your readers. School treats cost about 2s. 6d. per child for a day's doubtful pleasure or profit,— railway fare, dinner, and tea ; £50 for four hundred children. Now this sum would pay the expenses of sending half the number away for a week, with better results to the two hundred fortunates, and little loss which could not be re- paired by milk and buns in our parks to the less fortunate. But why should we not have holiday weeks endowed in the same way as hospital cots? And why should not children earn a week in the country as a prize for good conduct and polite manners,—needful accessories whose cultivation might be encouraged with advantage to the community in these
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