ABSTRACT
The Pall Mall Gazette seems to be labouring under a delusion that the officers of the Royal Artillery at Woolwich are the originators of a philanthropic scheme whereby to ameliorate the condition, and alleviate the sufferings, of soldiers' wives. Our contemporary writes: “The scheme now initiated contemplates five measures of relief. It is proposed to apply such funds as may be raised, in the first place, to send women ‘married with leave,’ who have been unavoidably left at Woolwich, to join their husbands. ‘This,’ says a circular which has been issued on the subject, ‘is the best thing for the wives, the best thing for the husbands, and the best thing for the Service; and there is often nothing except want of funds to prevent women from being thus sent out to their husbands.’”
