12 FEBRUARY 1898, Page 16

COLDS.

[TO THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."]

cannot understand how you can have any difficulty in staying in bed (Spectator, February 5th). You have only got to establish a reputation for suppressed gout. Nobody can say that you have not got suppressed gout. Bishops and Cabinet Ministers and the parish clergy could not get on without it. Of course, it is the part of a really good wife to go about saying that "she never knew him so irritable."—I am, Sir, &c., BLANKETS.