22 AUGUST 1903, Page 16

RUINED TRADES.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May not the decay of the plush and aniline industries in England be in some measure attributed to the changes in taste and of fashion ? Plush, at any rate, is no longer con- sidered artistic or desirable, either for millinery purposes or house decoration. Probably there are other manufactures . which owe their decline not so much to need of Protection as to lack of demand.—I am, Sir, &c., St. Nicholas Terrace, York. • EDITH M. THOMPSON.