24 SEPTEMBER 1910, Page 18

QUAKERS AND NERVOUSNESS.

[To THE EDITOR OF THE "SPECTATOR."] SIR,—May I, a Quaker member of the British Association, mention another instance of inherited self-control P I was at the firat 4u4er "Kummer school" hell. some years ago Scarborough. During an afternoon excusion in a brake one of the wheels came off. The party (mostly young, of course) suppressed their just alarm, and the driver was understood to ejaculate : "If they had not been Quakers they would all have been screaming." The " heredities " of the Society of Friends are, for ill or good, leaving it by degrees; but the above may illustrate further the quotation given by your Philadelphia correspondent in the Spectator of September 3rd.—I am, Sir, &e., E. R.