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washed and changed their things before DEMOCRACY'S MANNERS.
going to the play turning up in tweeds and homespar, and wecupying the most (BY BIN PHIL VENUGONES, PL}
cosy seats in the muditorium in this sinis. Democracy may or may not be 'n stop ter condition. There, they sit, punctuat forward in the process of human evoluing the stalls with drab spots of untid
ness-i offence to their aeightours in. tion. Very decided opinions both ways are held on this question, which is by no the audience at a discourtesy, to the means a new one, and may safely be left artists on the stage.
In the principal box of a fashionable to philosophers and politicians to worry their first-class brains over-in the suretheatre the other evening a host was clad apepper-and-salt morning lounge and certain knowledge that they willin
The effect was unseemly and in- come to no definite conclnaion whatever suit. on the subject. In any ense. Denaberacy congruous, I remember Sir Harry Johu- won't much care what their verdict maxston once describing in my pysener how in the remotest wildernesses of Central he, siner for weal or woe, it is a guest (paying or non-paying who can set tell Africa, thousands of miles away from which has obviously come to stay with thy surt of civilisation he always insisted upon each member of his 'exploring party us for more than a seasON.
With the inoral and subjective aspect charging for dinner into full evening Idres so that a standard of manners of Deinoerney. therefuge with its might be preserved, and to prevent the gratures ami aspirations, these trdita! tions have no concern... It is rather with ita abjective and visible manifestation as displayed in its clothes and its behaviour in pufilie places that should like to deal in spirit of respectful inquiry.
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IPS WAY.
I have never forgotten this story, and Teamber how much it impressed, we at the tina, and how wise, thought Sir
larry was.
One more riticism of the butter-day There is no doubt that ever since the audien and have finished. Why is arastice our manners kave deteriorated. it that, so many people seem to reach Many of us have given up even trying to the theatre in a state borilering upan be civil to one another "in traits and starvation. The moment they arrive, buses (when there are any), whilst others desperate efforts are started to require drras in a slack and slovenly way with-surishment of any description. This ing volves the passing of trays to and fro and eut auch regard to any sort of staminrd. The passing of the top-hat is perhaps not the trampling pag toes by attendants, altogether an unmitigated evil-though and every kind of overdones being in- nt its best and shinieat it had grown to Bietest upon neighbour, without regret he a symbol of solid respgetability which or apology. The jaws of the tween-lad we relinquish with a sigh. It may, of fraternity in stalls and boxes are gene course, he a mere nevident that this uni rally working hard by the end of the versal lowering of standarda should have first act, and chewing becomes pretty synchronised with the núvent of an au- general throughout the performance. Are nittedly democrátic Government. There these matters trivial and unimportant! I cannot think so since they are the had been a downwaril tendency, so far, as dress, and hehaviour were concerned long straws which show very clearly which before. Labour made its official appear way the social wind of democracy is ance at Westminster, and it is just be- blowing. That it may speedily shift into cause certain utterances in high places a more congenial quarter must be the about exhited ideals-with which we all prayer of its well-wishers and ita erities cenially agree-had led us to hope for alike. better things, that, we cannot help being a little hit disappointed when we realise the extent of the gulf which stift separing street: ates the vision from its realisation.
There has been much talk about clothes lately in. Socialist circles, such a clothes consciousness-it I may distort a familiar phrase that I feel less hesitation than I might have done in drawing attention to a subject which many may still be in- clined to regard as frivolous or negli gible. I do not think it is either of these things.
UN BEING WELL DRESSED.
In a sense, of course, clothes don't much matter.In comparison with the big issues of right and wrong" in buman affairs, they inatter not at all.
Meanwhile, let us bear in mind that very wise utterance of the sage of Down- It is the little things that count.“’
श SHANGHAI TRADE. Mesars.. Ilbert & Co.'s Piece Goods Market Report duted May 30th says:--
We have had another monotonous week of dull trading in all departments, a slight exception being, some speculative pur- chases of Venetians and other Fancies by Hankow dealers at very advantageous prices. Of genuine demand there is practically none and the explanation is given as the combinativa of active farm- ing operations all over the country and the approach of the Dragon Festival which fails on June 6th, practically coin-
days. The native settlement of accounts which is due to take places on that date is expected to pass off smoothly but rates of interest have already hardened mate rially in anticipation of a demand for funds, and, clearances have therefore fall cutsiderably.
Yet there is another sense in which they atter connously; for clothes inciding with the foreign Whit-week huli. diente much more than one might imagine at first sight they are the outward and visible sign of the inward and spiritual condition of the wearer. Which of us does not know that added sense of con fidence and self-respect that arises from the consciousness of heing, really well dressed'?
- naturally in no way
The latest news of the new crop in criticising the simplicity of dress neces- Amerin is that the growth is abou sitated by a modest income. Such a three weeks late owing to low tempern parel has a dignity of its own which is
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laziness or speries of inverted snob hishness deliberately prefer not to do so. These are the individuals who "help to lower standards and level downwards. There is, I believe, No. 10. Downing Street, a compatively humble though iamrasely privileged and permanent off- eial more powerful in some ways than any member of the Cabinet itself whose duty and pleasure it is to see that Prime Ministers are sent out to dinner in good condition so far as the outer man is con: cerned that is to shy with hair properly brushed and white ties not tour innch crumpled or askew, and with bats, and ronts that belong to them and are more or less suitable for the occasion.
LITTLE THINGS - COUNT
.It is related of one of our recent Pro miers will not invulge his name be yond asserting that it was neither Mr. Baldwin no Mr. MacDonald-that when starting out que evening from his official residence. for a particularly important public ceremony he manifested a certain amount of impatience during this tidying process in the hall and even ventured so far as to bint that he preferred tying his own tie in his own particular way-which was clearly not a good way. The grave reproof which greeted this exhibition of incident "Bolshevism on the part of the Head of the State is worthy of record
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