THE SHERIFF'S BADGE.
[To THE EDITOR Or THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—Some few weeks ago one of your correspondents threw cold water on the suggestion of presenting a badge to the unsuccessful recruit. A young junior in our office has just been rejected after nearly four months' training with the new Army, having strained himself at the work of digging trenches. To look at the young fellow one would imagine that he was in perfect health, he appears so fit and robust after the hard training he has gone through. He told me that when he was in the train on his way home last Sunday a sergeant spoke to him, within the hearing of a carriage full of passengers, and said that a strapping young fellow like him was wanted at the front. How humiliating to have this said to you when you have tried to do your bit, and how different it might have been if he had had some badge such as the High Sheriff is presenting to the unsuccessful recruits
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