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Derby Day.
fortable of the year. There is no other which does so much to make horse-racing a
sport.
national
London's Police.
HERE, THERE
and
EVERYWHERE.
American Medals For Englishmen Two Englishmen have just been honoured by American societies.
Sir Henry Wellcome, the British| scientist and benefactor of tropical] medicine research, has been pre- sented with the American Phar- maceutical Society's medal for ex- cellence in pharmacy.
try.
POLITE SOCIETY IS
COMING BACK
SIGNIFICANT CHANGE
SINCE LAST YEAR
END OF 15 YEARS' CHAOS
(By Patrick Balfour.)
THEN I asked a hostess of this,aside he is behaving in a manner
W new London season whether unnatural to him to man. If he
Root Of Evil
Yale University has just pre- she had noticed any recent social flings them suddenly aside he is sented the Howland Memorial Prize change she replied, "Yes Young behaving in a manner unnatural to for "distinguished achievement in
men are answering invitations him, and the result is no revelation the field of government" to Mr.again. They also write to thank of his true self. Philip Noel Baker, Cambridge
you after the party" Athletic Blue. Olympic runner, and
It is a humiliating reflection on The truth is that this cult of in- former Labour member for Coven-our times that such #statement formality sprang from two prin- should need to be made or seem cipal motives: laziness nad seldsh- The prize consists of a medal at all striking. The truth is that ness. People could not be bother- and an award of U.S.$1,500. It while other ages have been more led to think or to talk intelligently, was given after Mr. Noel Baker's affected, others as hectic, the pre-so they took to cocktails and wise- lecture on "Europe and the Next sent epoch has outshone them all cracks. They were only out for War."
as the age of bad manners.
themselves, and good manners Doubtless, Mr. Baker, who is a But this phrase is passing: of)(meaning consideration for others) pacifist, told the Americans what that I am sure. My friend's re-were a waste of time. they wished to hear
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Ogden Mills, "the real generalis. simo of the coming attack on
the Administration,”
John W. Davies, "capable lawyer,
dangerous enemy."
many Hall.
any other living being respon sible for our participation the War."
The
to emerge
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Suc-
mark is Indicative of a significant. But a new generation is more change. Society, since the war, solema than its predecessors, more They Shoot At The Blue Eagle has been in the melting-pot; ita serious-minded.. interested In other Mr. Cornelius Vanderbilt junior, constitution. Its manners, its mor- things and other people, while its journalist, society critic,
very and als, its
existence. But it predecessor. humanised by finan staurch ally of the President, has seems quite clear to me that from cial adversity and learning by issued his list (with comments) of fifteen years of chaos it is at last bitter experience, la realising that the ten principal enemies of the beginning
in a more no one can get very far in the pur Roosevelt Administration. They stable form.
suit of happiness, or even in the For example, if one thing distin- struggle for mere material uishes the London season
on ceas, unless ho consider his. which we are now embarked, it is fellowa. its reversion to formal entertain-} Good manners far deeper ment.
old-fashioned "ball," than mere punctillousness; they which ten years ago was mocked jare the windows of the soul: They James M. Beck, "deverest or allfat, is returning in triumph. The imply kindness, fellow-feeling, hu
Wall Street masqueraders."
"party," which took its place. is man sympathy. John F. Curry, leader of Tam-receding into the background. Moreover, if good manners are Those quaint pyjama-and-bottle af-now making a reappearance on the things of the past. social stage, their infuence will be Thomas H. Lamont, of 7. P. fairs are
There is no more of that "Tet's felt in private life. There is as Morgan and Co., "more than ring up some people and get up a much room for politeness in the party" spirit; engraved invitations home as in somebody else's home, are issued weeks ahead and the towards people you know as to- Lord Trenchard's annual re-
than they wards comparative strangers. The No longer is the English port on the Metropolitan Police,
"de-dance lists are longer
have been for years.
reason why the Edwardians made a Derby what it was, a sage critic covers a transitional period. His
The Derby House Bail this sea success of marriage was that they wrote some forty years ago.main reforms were authorised
"com.son will be remembered as a signi- were The causes he alleged for its de- by Parliament only in the second
too well-mannered, showed ficant social landmark. Women in too much consideration for each cline were that less money was half of the period, and some of
tiaras and in dresses which for other and those whose example staked upon it than in its Vie-them still await implementation. Mra. Alice Roosevelt Longworth, torian prime, and that it had Not until next year can even a "queen of the gossipy beehive." some years have been reverting to they were, to admit failure.
joid styles will again throng gilded ceased to compel the interest of first judgment be passed upon
Hurrison Williams,, "symbolises drawing-rooms to the strains of generation so often made a meas The reason why the succeeding the success of the Trenchard re- all England.
the arrogance of the public the "Blue Danube," aurrounded by of it was that so many of its mem- If the money forms as a whole, but the report utility companica.” which is won and lost upon the
escorts who request, politely, the bera thought good manners a form gives further evidence, if evi Richard Whitney, president of race is the criterion of imports dence be needed, that the charge
next but two. The reveralon is so of hypocrisy, whereas in reality the New York Stock Exchange, marked that it can hardly be long they are the only foundation for a ance, never WAN a Derby 60 of "militarisation" attached to "flooded Washington and the before we start bowing, scraping, successful, because unselfish, re- momentous as that which will them WILL more irresponsible
country with ruthless be run to-day. The system of than
Pro- and hand-kissing again.
lationship. most criticism of paganda." world-wide sweepstakes has Scotland Yard. Nothing could
London In Limelight It is significant of the cleavage
The coming generation, in res- multiplied the financial excite be less militaristic than Lord in the old party system since the Moreover, there is momentous pecting good manners, may well be ment beyond all comparison or Trenchard's attention to the hu- New Deal that at least two of the change which will surely enoue: able to show a better record in calculation. The crowd who will man personalities of his men."enemies" are or were prominent for the alim, boyish figure does not home life. go to the Downs to-day are only and his endeavours to see that members of the Democratic Party. a small fraction of those who the policeman's lot is not un-
are concerned the result. Yet happy.
are
The question of the living quarters of the police has been
Senator David A. Reed,
magogue first and last." Senator Simeon D. Fess,
bines the worst features Beck and Reed,"
of
Is it too
much to hope that accord with stately entertainment, and any case Mae West is the society's reversion to decent stand- popular film star of the moment.jards of behaviour is more than a.. Can it be, then, that women will passing fashion, that it. Implies a |revert to curves?
renewed sense of its responsibili
Your Daily Smile! the crowds, we may be sure, wul be far more numerous than they, causing the Commissioner par bridge fiend regards his pastime is began last year. when London. in awakening of finer sensibilities The importance with which the The reaction towards formality ties, that it even portends an were when Lee.h's page-boy, ticular concern. Of the married! a rapture of excitement at its quarters recommended by Lord exemplified by this story. One the eclipse of Berlin, the decline after a dead and aballow period? picnic delights, wished it "were Onslow's Committee for the In-scathingly, "Well, you're
man called upon another and said of Paris, and the depression of The intellect, at least, should Derby Day ull the year round.”
nice New York, became for ner Divisions only 500 of 800 fellow, I must say. You told me time the leader of cosmopolitan formal entertainments of the pre- the Arat derive greater stimulus from the Electri LгUIKUS and motor sets recommended are on the
teas of thou way to completion, and Lord I'd meet a bridge expert at that social life and lived up to that sent than from the promiscuous transport convey sands in the time that the drags Trenchard suggests that 1.000 is turned out to be a beastly swindle. Berlin, Paris, or New York had
dinner party last night, and it responsibility more nobly than orgies of the past. and the barouches and the don- the necessary number. To supply The fellow can't play bridge for ever done. key-carts conveyed hundreds, this deficiency is. however, leas
urgent than to improve the ac nuts. He only builds them, you There never Wax & time since
488," commodation for single men, and the English nation began when he deplores again, as he did in a so small a proportion of the Eng-speech to the Police Federation | Dumb; "I hear they glish people had so little to do in last month. the "deplorable" established a home for their daily ute with that no character of the section houses, operators." Bell: “And animal, the horse. We have u.e which are almost entirely of pre- they name it," Dumb: "Listened to London society after a long A total of $5,765.18 (£409,2.9)
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Foreigners, many of consider CANCER RESEARCH
CAMPAIGN.
able distinction, flocked to London and had to be entertained; and, asj have they were strangers such anter- telephone tainment had, of necessity, to be what did of a formal kind. Dignity return-
absence.
Colony Contributes £409
was collected in the local drive in I believe that this tendency has aid of the British Empire Cancer Stout Maxim: More waist less been maturing, by way of reaction Research Fund Campaign and bas against fifteen years of unres-been forwarded to the Treasurer of trained behaviour, for some time the Fund, in London. In addition We are by nature a formal people. I to this is added the sum of $20 Wo have never been good (£1.8.4) representing a last-minute:
anonymous donation received in jesse among the convention of memory of "G.H.J.”
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She was anxious to learn the
paradox that while the horse is war construction and in many Inn"
instances data back eighty ousted by machinery from the work of the world, the horse as years. The lack of privacy, of an instrument of sport is vastly rooms to read and write, and of
lighting and heating of quiet speed. more popular than ever. The adequate catering arrangements main reason is clearly in the are strikingly described, and the latest about her neighbour's' ac- Bohemians. We are more at our unique adaptation of horse racireport proposes the erection of cident, and, turning toward her ing to the natural man's desire at least two up-to-date section husband, who was reading for the excitement of gambling. houses with proper restaurants evening paper, said, "Henry, did polite society than in the studio Donations received amounted to We do not now hear of a town and other quarters.
you see anything in the paper tie is our natural evening uniform. at the Concert realised $582.05; and and the backstairs bar. The white $1.512; donations for, and collections ringing with continual stories of
vast sums
the
about Mr. Green running over his staked on anything REVOLVER LICENSE
and everything and recurring ruin. The tradition is Now
NOT RENEWED.
Fine Of $25 Inflicted.
mother-in-law 7" "Not yet," replied and "mannere makyth man" was the Empire Day Street Collection
the husband. "I havent come to the sporting news!"
either.”
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always our, favourite motto.
After all, there is everything to
Revolt!
|produced $3,788.93; making a grand' rather of moderation, but the
be said for polite society: for ele-total of $5,882.98. In addition there was the anonymous donation gance as opposed to vulgarity, res- habit, is more widespread than
Visitor: "It's funny, but I can traint as opposed to exhibitionism, referred to above. ever. Yet it would be a blunder Mr. Chiu Miu-chau, of No. 4 Ar- never get your baby to play with conversation as again wisecracks From the total recceipts the sum to think of the Derby crowds senal Street, was fined $25 by Mr. rattle Artist Mother: "Not at and doubles entendres.
jot $120.90 has been deducted for- as drawn there by the excite E. W. Hamilton at the Central all; his father was never athletic against convention
expenses. come. pro- ment of their bets, past, present Magistracy this morning for being
fessedly from a distaste for or prospective. With one greating possession of a revolver with-
hypocrisy, a taste for simplicity, a The fortnightly meeting of tho Bection the driving force is the put a license, on May 18,
He: "Can I marry on $50 a desire to be natural and a need for Sanitary Board was held yesterday Mr. J. M. Hall, appearing for the month 7" She: "Not me." feeling that whatever else be
afternoon with Mr. I. A. D.. Fore-^- easy intimacy. accused, pleaded guilty on a tach-
But "politeness is considerate-rest President, in the
chair.. missed or denied in the year the nical offence, saying that his client. Many old naval customs are said nose, not hypocrisy; simplicity Others present were the Hon. Mr. Derby must be seen Another, had been renewing his license to be popular in the Air Force. may spell vacancy; the natural is. M. Henderson, Vice-President, and probably a growing company since 1917, bat owing to illness in With the exception of dropping the all too easily confounded with the Dr. J. M: Gray, M.O.H., Mr. Wong each successive year, go down to his family he was not able to re-pilot, of course.
animal; and as to intimacy, It is a Kwong-tin, Mr. L. C.. F. Bellamy, Epsom because they have been new it this year.
thing which can only come by slow Dr. Li Shu-fan, Dr. R. A. do Castro- taught that everyone in England-Sub-Inspector Baker collaborat "And why does the death of this degrees. It is not attained by the Baabo, Mr. C. J. Roe, secretary, and ought to go at least once, Fasti-ed Mr. Hall's statement, but added friend affect you so deeply?" "Ah! sbrupt-demolition of all barriers. Mr. Im Ping-tseung, assistant secres dious racegoers may condemn that accused had moved from his flad I married him I should now Certain restraints are natural to tary The business transacted war 'Dorby Day as the most uncom-former address without notification.
be a widow.
'man: L ́hë filings them" anddenly formal:
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