DARKENING CHURCH WINDOWS.
[TO THE EDITOR OW THE " SPECTATOR."]
Sin,—The problem presented by the above national requirement is not so hopeless as it at first appeared to some in positions of responsibility. We have seventeen large windows at Millbrook, and we can satisfactorily darken them by night (and still use them for their proper purpose by day) at a cost of about Is. 6d. per window. I shall be happy to furnish any of your readers with full particulars on receipt of a stamped envelope for reply, together with 2s. 6d. for the instructions. We have a debt of about £950 on our day schools through being compelled to build oven after the outbreak of war, and every sum received by me in this way will go to that fund. I even venture to hope that, of those who will be as pleased as we are with this economical method of discharging a national duty, there are many who will be glad to give us further help in tho task of wiping off so great a debt. The burden was cruelly forced upon us at a time when all needless building was being postponed by most public bodies (and the district Education Committee unanimously agreed that our schools could perfectly well wait) until work would be badly needed for those brave men who are now defending our churches and our homes from a barbarian invasion. Darkened churches will then be a thing of the past, and some of the material used will still have a market value.—I am, Sir, he., HAROLD PETTItAN. Millbrook Vicarage, near Plymouth.
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