WHAT AILS THE HOUSE OF COMMONS? t" Olt, don't you
worry about that!") -(To THE EDITOR OP THE " SPWILTOR."3 Stn,—" The Government only say this to frighten us "—the state- meet you put into the mouth of your hypothetical "working-class optimist "--iremtnds me of what a relative of mine in Liverpool told me, some weeks ago, of a conversation she had had with her maid, after the latter had returned from a "day cut." She said the friends she had been to see hadn't the smallest notion of denying themselves, or the least idea of the necessity for food abstinence. They 'were making no reduction whatever in their ordinary dieting—haying meat, and abundance of other good things, at every meal. On her asking them what they were going to do when the money gave out, they replied : "Oh, the Govemn- pont will have 'to feed sis."1 Your suggestion for a Committee "to set every Member of Parliament to work in every constitu- ency to educate the electors, and through them the nation," is
surely well timed.—I am, Sir, Ace M. A.
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