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Auckland Star, Volume XLIX, Issue 148, 22 June 1918, Page 18

From this week onwards .Tack Tar may write one love letter every seven days that no Censor's eye may pry into. remarks an English newspaper of April 20. The Privilege Envelope, long ago past its experimental state in the Army, is quite new to the lower deck, which will now be put upon its honour to restrict the -weekly missive to family and private affairs. One other concession and the two services will be "pegs." Letters may come home without a stamp from the soldier ou active service; whereas the sailor on active service ha_ to pay his penny (or three-halfpence) per epistle unless there are no postage stamps available, an elastic provision which is not stretched in his favour. The "tyranny, hypocrisy and boredom," ■which Mr Granville Barker says are the constituents of 'the happy English home." are not domesticity, .but the decay ot domesticity.— K. Chesterton.