[To ma EDITOR or IBM "SPECTATOR:1 SIR,—In view of your
recent articles on recruiting, you may be interested to hear what two or three busy women in this manufacturing town have done in their sr are time in this direction. Though the proportion of recruits here is as high (or higher) as in many centres, it is well known that among a class who do not read the newspapers, or merely the rose- coloured headlines in the cheap Press, many women and girls are keeping their men back. Many of these people also look on enlisting as merely a refuge for unemployment, and with work plentiful there is no need to " join." To these a suitable recruiting influence is a woman speaker who can bring home to them in graphic language the gravity of the situation. We have obtained permission for short addresses to be given to mothers' meetings and to girls' and women's classes (Church and Nonconformist), and in the mess-rooms of works where women and girls are employed. The address aims at bringing home to them that the war is not "a long way off "; at stimulating their imaginations as to its realities and possible developments; and hence the duty of influencing their sons, lovers, brothers, &c. Judging by the kindness and measure of success we have met with, it is evident how much more might be done in this direction amongst women by other women with more leisure.—I am, Sir, &c.,
[We trust that this excellent work will be widely taken up. Let it be made clear what invasion means for the homes of the people, and how invasion can be best kept from us by winning the battle in Flanders. It is there that our homes are now being defended.—En. Spectator.]
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