"SPINDRIFT" AND THE LADY CORRESPONDENT.

Press, Volume LXIII, Issue 12963, 16 November 1907, Page 10

"SPINDRIFT" AND THE LADY CORRESPONDENT.

TO TIIE EDITOR OF "T«E PRESS." Sir —The "Lady Correspondent" was, at first, rather elated with good Mr "Spindrift's" remarks about her letter concerning Ben Tillett. 'Tripping lightly into print" sounds so young and girlish. But presently sober and experience reminded , her that "tripping lightly into print" is one of tho old. conventional phrases often used by writers when they want to bo sarcastic and superior; it had nothing to do with the lady's age. . But, really, is it not better to 'trip lightly into "print" than to move somewhnt heavily into it? Could Mr "Spindrift' disentangle his firct sentence just for the mere sake- of clearness? And what docs "bettor bark" mean in English? And too. is it not rather rune of Mr. "Spindrift" to accuse the churches of "remaining fatuously unmoved?" The dictionary tells us "iatuous" means imbecile, idiotic, impotent, silly, and many other horrid things, mc "Lady Correspondent" would not like to call tho churches such nasty names, trip she ever so lightly into print! But never mind. The "Lady Correspondent" acknowledges she has plenty of faults; her handwriting is atrocious, and perhaps "Spindrift's" is. too—hence the printer haft put things wrong, and that is one reason why hor "earnest 'but inefficiently-aimed solicitation" (what a sentence!) drew down "Spindrifts ,^— shall wo say "light" criticism. —Yours, etc., •THE LADY CORRESPONDENT."