26 JUNE 1915, Page 17

" THE CRY OF THE CHILDREN. " [To MR Eorros or THR . SeacTATos."J

SIR,—Can you possibly find room in your paper for the following suggestion P The war is now tan months old, and throughout the length and breadth of England "the cry of the children," orphaned of one or both parents, is heard. On the other hand, there are thousands of childless homes, rich in everything except child life. Why shoold not married people (yes, and unmarried ones too) fill the blank in their empty and often objectless lives, and remove the heartsclsing feeling of "not being necessary to any one" ? Adoption is, I know, a many-sided subject, but, whatever the pros and cons may be, in this case it could only be a form of mercy which " blesses him that gives and him that takes."—I am, Sir, &a.,

A. E. S. B.