A. MEDAL FOR WOMEN. (TO TEE Eorros or ram 0 13rscrAros."]
Sre.,—This seems a fitting moment to suggest that a medal be struck for women. There are numbers who are doing work requiring both courage and skill, and yet nothing in the way of a public recognition can be made. Could not women gain a medal "for courage" as men do "for valour" ?—not necessarily for saving life, though this could be included. I make this suggestion in hopes that some of your readers may improve upon it. We know that women can be made "ladies of grace," but this does not touch the rank-and-file, so to speak. In the Times of May 28th, in a column on "Stricken Serbia," we read under the heading "A Dangerous Service " " The service was dangerous as well as honourable. Two of the Scottish nurses died of typhus. . . . Many devoted men and women took all risks in response to the call for aid. ... One
English lady, Mrs. Hardy, who came alone, took charge single- handed of a surgical hospital of about five hundred patients, and with the help of one woman, a Serbian lady doctor, tamed it into a marvel of good order."
In another part of the same Time, see read of a little girl who in the raid on Southend was "severely burnt before she was rescued by her elder sister, who, displaying great courage, carried her from the room and extinguished the flames."—I
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