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THE MODERN GIRL IN EPIGRAM.
HARROW HEADMASTER GIVES IMPRESSIONS.
Be good, sweet maid, and if you
can, be clever, And do your best, nor talk
about it long.
And so let life, death and the
Great Forever, Just come along.
The above version of Longfel low's well-known lines, "Be good, sweet maid, and let who will be clever," was suggested by Dr. Norwood, headmaster of Harrow, at the opening of Weston Birt, the new public school for girls; pear Tetbury, Gloucester,
A PRINCE'S LIBÈL ACTIONS.
ERROR OF FRENCH STATE DEPARTMENT. ·
A settlement was announced be- fore Mr. Justice Salter in the King's Bench Division recently of consolidated actions for libel, in which the plaintiff was Prince Felix Youssoupoff and the defen- dants were the Sunday Express, the Daily News; and the News of the World,
Mr. Norman Birkett, K.C; for Prince Youssoupoff, said that a short statement of the facts of the case, was very desirable.
Prince Youssoupoff was a mem- ber of the Russian Imperial family, and his wife was a granddaughter "Why" he asked, referring to of the late Alexander III., Emperor the Arst line, "should we expose: our sisters and daughters to the of All the Russians. They lived distressing alternatives between in Paris, where they were the re Stupidity and Vice?"
cognised leaders of the Russian re-
In his speech Dr. Norwood gave fugees who fled from Russin bo- his impressions of boys and girls, cause of the present Bolshevist re-
gime. some of hia epigrams being:
Boys suffer at times from en-
The Prince and his wife establish. larged hearts; girls are in dangered a business as dress designers in of auffering from enlarged con- Paris and London under the name sciences.
of Irfe, and the business was very
The boy will always do as much successful. They moved in society. as he thinks is fair, but the.girl and were well known in Paris and is apt to try and do what her mis-London and on the Continent geno
rally. tress thinks is fair,
The girl is the nobler creature, The Sunday Express published but the boy is the more, sensible a report that Prince Youssoupoff had caused a sensation in Paris by animal.
overstrain suddenly leaving the country, ad- Women sometimes themselves, and then they invari-ding: It is understood that he became involved in an unfortunate ably overstrain their pupils.
Dr. Norwood said, that there affair which will have possible un- pleasant consequences for himself. was talk, not, without foundation. He is thought to have left France of over-strain on girls.
for London or Switzerland, and will He admitted that that was the remain there until the fncidont faall of the professional tenchere, may be forgotten or settled." both men and women, who are apt The Daily News stated that the to expect too much, in and out of Prince had been "forced to leave school, of those under their care. Paris on account of a society "I hope Mrs. Craufurd (the scandal," and the News of the headmistress) will not make that World said, "the self-confessed mistake," he said, adding that he slaver of Rasputin has been ex- did not recommend to Weston Birt pelled from France." the Victorian idea familiarised in
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It was important that it should be made plain that there was not a word of truth in the allegations, Never Taught Before.
and the newspapers had never The opening ceremony at the ought to contend that the reports school, which has been described which they published were true. as the Girls' Stowe, was perform-The newspapers had been misled ed by the Duchess of Beaufort be- by a confusion of names.
Prince Youssoupoff had no de- The Metropolitan Police Force foren gathering of about 1,500, Jon January 1. 1928, numbered including 70 girls who are already sire to make money out of the matter, his only object being to 19,882 persons, headed by five at the school.
vindicate his good, nume, and to do The head mistress, Mrs. Houisen something to repair any possible chief constables, 35 superinten- Croufurd, has never before had damage to his business. dents, and 666 inspectors. These figures appear in the report of the been associated with the Giri stating that the report was com any teaching experience, but has
The defendants had apologised, Metropolitan Police Fund. Incident-
pletely without foundation and that ally it is interesting to note that, al-Guide and Boy Scout movement.
Mrs. Craufurd said that while the honour of the Prince was though the chief constables re- ceive salarlos ranging from £807 she had no teaching experience vindicated. The defendants would to 41,000 per annum, they receive whatever, she had been associated indemnify the Prince in respect of a boot allowance of 1s. a week! with character building.
costs, and pay him a sum of money "The more I see of young people which would be devoted to Russian The British Museum pays £2,790 of the present day the more do I charities in France.
a year for its police service; the admire, respect and believe in House of Lords £10,719, and the them. I bellave in their honest, House of Commons £13,977. The candid outlook,
policing of Hyde Park and the
Tower of London costs tho Office
of Works £25,899; while the Royal
Mint costs £7,101 to guard. The
"Would Scrub a Floor." "They take nothing for granted
sum of £20,610 is received from and, looking life straight in the public companies and private in-face, work out their own dividuals for police services.
sary that girls should have a good' foundation in learning, and they can still bo good wives and mo- thers if they have had a fair amount of learning.
our
ideas WB can still manage with courage."
houses if, even in the dark agca Miss Faithful, late Mistress of of the past, we learned Latin. Fecs, fines, and penalties im Cheltenham Ladies' College, said "I should be ashamed not to posed at the Metropolitan Police that she hoped this great adven-scrub a floor against anybody or Courts last year enriched the ture would not be eccentric.. police fund by £77,252, *whlle
"There are some things so well £3,687 came from the sale of old tried that I think we should still police clothing.
continue them. It is still
clean a hearth or turn out a room. "Weston Birt girls can hardly expect to do more than that in the. matter of mere housewifery.
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