5 APRIL 1913, Page 19

"THE COMMON TASK."

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] Sin,—With your permission I should like to thank, through the medium of the Spectator, all those editors and article. writers of both sexes who during the past fortnight have said such nice things about my letter on the above subject. I had no idea when I wrote it that it would cause such a flutter in the newspaper world, for it seemed to me I was simply portraying. what hundreds, nay thousands, of working women are quietly doing the world over.—I am, Sir, &c.,

S. H. B. L.