The inadequacy of such sums with which to bring up a child has at last led to action, and the maximum of 5/- a week has been done away with. The maximum payment in the future will be 10/- a week. This Act (which is called the Affiliation Orders Increase of Maximum Payment Act, 1918) came into operation on January 1st, 1919. Provisions Affecting Soldiers and Sailors. If a soldier is alleged to be the father of the child, action must be taken while he is in England or Wales. In Scotland and Ireland the bastardy laws are different, and if he is abroad or under orders to go abroad action cannot be taken. The summons should be served on his commanding officer, with a sufficient payment to cover his journey to and from the court where his case is to be heard. Before the war the alimony granted to the mother for a child by a soldier was even less than in ordinary cases; this injustice has, however, been ended and the allowance now granted for an illegitimate child is 6/8 per week. FOOTNOTES: [235:1] The word illegitimacy is derived from the Latin _illegitimus_, meaning "not in accordance with law." [235:2] The bastardy laws in Scotland and Ireland are different from the English laws, and therefore the figures for these countries are not given. [235:3] First half-year. Transcriber's Notes: Italicized words are surrounded with _underscores_. Variations in hyphenation have been left as in the original. Examples include: pre-requisite prerequisite re-marry remarry safe-guarding safeguarding up-bringing upbringing The word "gonorrhoea" has an oe ligature in the original. End of Project Gutenberg's Women's Wild Oats, by C. Gasquoine Hartley