4 DECEMBER 1936, Page 21
A BAFFLING PROBLEM
[To the Editor of THE SPECTATOR.] SIR,—Can a woman be a mother, until she has borne her child ? If not, how can a mother be a pregnant woman ? (p. 933, col. 1).
—Yours obediently, PUZZLED. [Mothers who have borne more than one child are not unknown.—En. The Spectator.]