4 JANUARY 1952, Page 8

If anyone would like a little further information about the

Spartan custom of exposing children I can offer it—on the authority of a fifteen-year-old examinee in a certain public school : ... The children were brought up very ahead of them- selves. When a child was about one year old his mother put him out on the hillside for a week to see whether he could look after himself, without outside help. If the child was still in a decent state she would bring the child back and he would be considered strong. If he was dead she wouldn't keep him."

This last decision seems sound. JA1N-us.