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THURSDAY, JUNE 10. 1920.
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ST. GEORGE OR SHARE- SPEARE ?
-VICAR'S REPLY TO SIR SIDNEY LEE
Sir Sidney Lee's proposal for [dethroning SL George and substituting Shakekame as `our patron saint is strongly opposed by the Rav. H. F. B.. Mackay, Vicar of All Saints, Margaret- | street.
-Three poinst on the subject} | were made by the Visar in his address to the crowded congrega- tion that assembled at the service which was held in celebration of |SL. Geurge's Day. He showed that} St. George is a man and not, as Sir Sidney holds, a mytb; that there is a certain gain in knowing
(acteristics; and that there is a peculiar suitability in St. George being the patron saint of
WOMEN, DRESS AND PUBLIC WHIST DRIVE HELD TO BE nothing about his personal char
LIFE.
CAN THE THREE BE RECONCILED!
A. M. Drysdale writes in the Daily ChromiVÅRS
GAMING.
BOARDING HOUSE KEEPER England.
FINED.
Blackpool boarding houses, at which whis: drives are conducted during the winter months, were affected by a local magisterial decision recently.
"I trust," he said, "that Si Sidney Lee has not brought upon himself the malediction which is carved on the poet's-grave, b2- cause I can conceieve no proposal more likely than this to move the bones of Shakespeare.”
Charles Driver, of White The answer to his proposal was House, Central Beach, was tined † at a patron saint must KS a 40 and costs for gaming by possible example to his followers, bolding whist drives, and Man and whereas none could ever Age Halliday was fined £1 for imitate the genius of Shakespeare. permitting the play.
all can imitate the faithfulness of St. George.
What are the reactions of dress and public life likely to be upon one another now that women have annexed pabir life to their provinge of dress? Shall we see furbelows and gekgaws in Parliament, 07 the judical bench, and at the Bar? Or will women tone down in dress as in speech to the drab average at Police odicers, who took part
after which men,
a brilliant in the drives, said 466 players As to the peculiar suitability of St. George being the patron saint process
exhaustion, have participated in six nights. o arrived and encamped? Wil Would-be promoters of whist of England, he drew a comparison [dress lose its galery and variety drives are in great doubt as to between his faithfulness and that So far, Or will public life take un strange whether they will be convicted of our own countrymen. culous and become more of gaming if they are prosecuted, he said, as the Church on earth is audacious?
writes a Daily Chronicle corres-concerned, St. George, so great When we say, with patronising pondent
and dear to his contemporaries.) tolerance towards the vainer sex. The following are some of the stands now sa an unknown private | that women are the creations of decisions arrived at in the law in the ranks of the armies of
Heaven. art as well as of Nature, we courts during recent years; -- forget the clothes history, perhaps In October 1911 the Salford **Eagland.” he said. “is celeb- even the clothes predispositions. Stipendiary fined the promoter of rated not for eloquent, or artistic, Loi men. Our public life, in truth, [a whist drive for unlawful gam-jor romantic figures, but for the
men-muanpolised as it has been in
†extraordinarily high quality of her hitherto, is laced and interlaced This decision wasananimously unknown privates. We have seen all over with the trail of dress.upheld in April 1912 by a King's a great wonder in the last six I must not linger upon the allur Bench Court, consisting of the years. We have seen ras: multi- ing topic of smart muffs, with Lord Chief Justice (Lord Alver-tudes of our countrymen tread which the Edinburgh lawyers of stone), Mr. Justice Pickford and with perfect simplicity the path the eighteenth century kept their | Mr. Justice Avory.
of loyalty, obedience, and duty. hands in training for their Following this decision there We have beat our heads in boai- clients' pockets, and much similar were several police court pro-age before the faithfulness to dury lore I have not spare even to secations of promuters of whist of the average man.
drives.
name.
PARTY SYMBOLISM OF CLOTHES. Who was it but men that desis de the party symbolism of clothes, the ingenious uniforming of the politicians The blue coat and the buff waistcoat of the Whigs have been responsible for Tors riots and broken heads. When Lord Grey, in 1828, appeared in the bosom of his family in a Wellington roat. the outraged Whig women of his hou-abule tore the rag of Toryism from his back, and, new as it was he never saw it gain. The same staza.
"We have seen cheery, normal,
In November 1912, at the Lon- ordinary, good fellows of everyday found not guilty after two juries ease, health, and all they boli don Sessions. promoter was life making a sacrifice of comfort. had disagreed.
mest dear. We have seen them!
In February 1913 another pro-march away to darkness and i moter, preferring to bare a case silence. We have realised it is brought before a jury, was tried these who are the wonder-workers and was found not guilty.
the Central Crimsal Court, these are the men who killed
the dragon."
The silence and reticence which distinguished the figure of St. George are stanlingly suggestive, goli band running down the be thought, of all that is best in putside seam, a scarlet waistreat. English manhood, and none he long lace rules to the tips of his held is so fit as be, ta sum up man attended Queen Cardine,fingers, while glazes with real everything in the great sacriñas brilliant rings witstly them, and that have been made in the hernie trial a white top hat. and. |instedlof being mubbed as a pert.
dossy ringless rippling er geprs just past. abuulders, he hala popolar ovation, for Dear Hunt had made ti. where topper Radical budge
the public women. dar. jheng in a Cualition tue, a Sian Fen hat-pin, a Wee Free skin. or a Labour frill, they will be les- innonators than imitatOTA.
But that is symbolic wear a serious branch of politics. What of dress for the sake of dresd There, too, public blazed the trail.
FASTE baze
I snspect that it was the gold! in the colour of the primese that excited the passion of bi-raeli i fer that modest and chervie
innoce i dureret of the vak
FATE OF SILK HATS.
USED FOR UPPERS OF
- WOMEN'S SHOES.
All that the dazdy anka of the world; says Carlyle, le that it will! look at him, and in Justine to j Disraeli I must add that when
The silk ha, no lonžer an he had jnduced the world to look unimpeachable symbol of caste. him with all its million eyes. nowadays. zet badly trodder he discarded his peacek plumage on. for saber black,
But its
Time was when it had leisurely POLITICAL DANDIES,
Wil the Inns of Court be con-sucial grades, often descending!| I do not go back to such nator-stained to revive their severe by devious ways, from aristocra: ious Parliamentary dandies as statutes against the randy to the undertaker's man. Boem and Coke and Ralegh, in fashions which used to be witch career is apt to be cus short, as their silks and brocades and the youths of law? Eren so the folk have broken from iron rules feathers and laces and ruffs and women lawyers need not be dia-which used to give it a place, jawals and the rest Halegh pat-emaxed, for close statutes were rarely challenged in city, or on ticularly. bedecked with bis £60, safely ignored even before they church parade. 000 worth of pearls and diamonds.had become obsolete.
What becomes of the discarde still shines in the caverns of bis-
FANCY DRESS, ON THE BENCH. silk hat? tory like a candelabra or a des
Bad examples never lacked "Old toppers bought here."" is perate deed in a timid world. 1 resist even the temptation of Fox. eminence. The radiant costume one answer. displayed by a dealer if For occasionally neglected to the Chancery Court of the in the King's-road near Walham- wash his face and hands between Lord Chancellor, Earl of Shaftes green; and flanking the placard en all-night gambling bout and abury, caused the envious to com- are two of the most dilapidated resounding manly speech in Par.plain that he looked more like specimens that ever liament, it was to him rather than a rakish young nobleman" than scarecrow uses...
"My foot gues on every hat I any other, whenever he visited a judge. Worse still, the judge Paris, that the macaronis of his who sentenced Robert Emment to buy, whatever its conditions," dealer to a Daily) own years entrusted their delicate death appeared at the trial in the said the
"That commissions for waistcoats from fancy dress which he had worn at Chronicle representative. the metropolis of taste. But Lady Castlereagh's ruasquerade is not to make it less presentable, need not refer to such a remote ball-green and yellow, with black but simply to compress it for period.
stripes and mother-of-pearl but packing, for it has to be flattened I take a great party leadertons-not concealed by his judi- in order that a couple of dozen or compact almost of our own day, the hero cial robes, for he inadvertently so may go into a
parcel.
escaped
in thei: Jingo youth of many threw these open as he was pro "The old hats are not worth Englishmen who are not yet morenouncing the capital doom.
than middle-aged. Here just two descriptions of the dress of the orthodox Victorian protagonist of the Conservative cause
THE GORGEOUS DISRAELI.
Erskine went into the country much-only 3. or 4d. a.piere. 1 to fulfil his special retainers in understand that the covering is dark green coar, scarlet used for the uppers of ladies" waistcoat, and silk breeches, and fancy shoes." the hands which he extended It family circles a silk hat cons towards enchanted juries in bis sidered past wear or, perhaps, 1) A waistcoat embroidered irresistible appeals in behalf of only out of fashion is occasional- with gorgeous golden flowers--no political liberty were alwaysy requisitioned by women mem. doubt, primroses-patent leather decently clothed in lemon-bers, who cut it down and convert pamps, a quantity of cbains about coloured kid gloves, What a it into feminine headgear, cun his neck and pockets, and in bis jump from Montaigne's disquie-ningly altered out of all semblance hand a white stick with a black ting and barbersas contention to its original shape; or it may tassel.
that if we had been intended to be stripped, and the covering wear cothes we should have come transformed into a dainty vanity, ready-clothed into the world!"
hag.
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