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THE SILK STOCKING"

A PHILOSOPHICAL DISCUSSION.

appearance.

LONDON AND LONDONERS SIXTY OR SEVENTY YEARS AGO.

Scarcely a year passes in which some "Il faut soufrir pour etre helle," new book on London" is not added to said the French corsetiere of the last the already extensive list. The subject century, as she laced the panting Bam- indeed is inexhaustible, Messrs. T. sels into 17-inch stays. The fashions good: Fisher Ugwin, Ltd., have recently issued have changed, hut the maxim holds one bearing the title "Londen and Log- there is no limit to the discomfort wo- doners in the Eighteen-Fifties and Six-men will endure to achieve a standard of One would imagine that ties. The author is Mr. Alfred Rosling Bennett, who, it will interest many of

nien, being so mach wiser than women our readers to know, is sa nacle of Mr clear that foolish, frivolous garments in this question of dress, would make it I. S. Bencett, general manager of the found little

that a wise young in Hoogkong.

the selection of The book, which runs to nearly on, considering

wife. future

would say to himself: pages, is a record of recollections on a

No! That girl in extravagant clothes,

and transparent sto

stockings. great variety of interesting subjects, and

and possible the author combines with a wonderfully shoes is not the wife for me! want matt who retentive memory a pleasing gift of litera sensibile, practical young womant

Bac ary expression, which makes a dip into will make an economical partner.

Only in the moral the pages of this book doubly enjoyable, does he do this? The forty-six chapters in the book cover story books of the Victorian era. In rent the smart an iadnite variety of interesting topies fife he loses his heart from the costumes and customs of the girl time, to such matters as the first London sailway, and the frat underground, the

China & Japan Telephone Co.'s interests might be favour in their sight.

Loadea tube, and laying of Atlantic cables. A number of interesting illustrations are interspersed, inchading a reproduction of a map of London in 1837, showing the 78 principal toll bars. In addition, the author tells us there

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who, in manner and appearance can hold her own in any company, and taste that style are a credit to his The girls kaow this, driss

And so the accordingly. shoulder their full share of the blame those pretty, ailly, silk stockings.

to provide which American clerks have been demanding larger salaries. Some one has challenged the utility of the silk saying that it is merely pretty:

were 100 side, or auxiliary, bars designed Lady Aott-Bower bas rushed to it!

and

defence with an article in the London Evening

ning News.

prettiness is worth men he realian they are probably wise paying for she says, "and those who don't agree should go home and dig up their gardens and plans cabbages. Cabbages are not so pretty, but en much more usefLL"

to prevent the chief ones being invaded.

The final chapter in the book is one of reflections on the change that have taken place in the last sixty years. The general charseter of these very interesting ob- servations may be gathered from the following quotation: "Old fogies are reputed, and often justly, to be incap able of revogaising improvements, and to think that the country must neces- sarily be going to His Apollyonic Majesty when views and things they have been brought up to are replaced by new-fangled notions and devices. That may be my may he wrong, aud sincerely trust am bus present-day developments and symptoms seem to furnish forth no in

I is reported thas the otherinere considerable cause for disquietude, as to Press having attacked Board School edu the future of England, Great Britain and cation as fute and a sheer waste of the Empire. In the author's judgment public money. Mr. W. G. Case (Lab., England is no longer the earnest England Wellingborough), who maintaina that it of the Great Exhibitions of 155 and is in no way inferior to the average 1962 Luxury and laziness, he says. bave Public School education, has challenged. Mincceeded thrift and industry, and he Lord Bothere to sit for an examina xives us this picture in the Brual paration on a series of questions suitable graph of the look: –

case.

BOARD SCHOOL EDUCATION.

CHALLENGE TO LORD ROTHER› MERI.

"Alent while the good ship Britmata, to a Board School boy of 14.

Lord Rochermere is to pay $1,000 to with helin adrift, surges among the rocks. the officers engaged chiefly in scheming Labour Party' funds if he is not to displace their rivals: the crew one sessfal in answering T3 fr coat, of half on strike and the other half think the questions, and the challenger is to pay ing they ought to be; the passengers mostly dancing the Lernpipe: the few who refrain-well, what can they do! Only doubt and hope."

MUSIC THE "SPOILER." LORD BIRKENHEAD'S "FRANK CONFESSION.

The Earl of Birkenhead was the prin

to the Newspaper Press Fuad if Lord Rothermere is successful.

Lord Rothermere, who states that he left school at the age of 14, has accepted the challenge...

dipal guest at the sixth annual dinner of the wise Platononia! the choruses

On

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never have in my life been able to

An isochromatie Plate, giving a Fine Eender. ing of Tone and Colour Values without the in the history of the human race have use of A Light Filter, On account of its Been controlled by music, but I have to High Speed, the Plate is quite suitable for confess that some of the weakest and Hand-Camera Work, and 'is Une of the Best worst-directed movements of our frail All-round Plates obtainable, as it is capable humanity have been not a little influenced of dealing efficiently with practically say by music. I recall a quotation from subject that may present itself.

who wrote: "On oc- the Federation of British Music Indus casions of public

"not by

boy's, tries; which was held in the Savoy Hotel should be sung, not

but by old recently. Mr. F.

B

of their Allen

because of presided over men who,

greater 240 members and their

stability

of character, will impart a soun. guests. The Earl of Birkenhend, giving the der morai tone to the muaic." Br coast of British Music, said: Your so adds that if the old men feel any mis- ciety cannot be denied the gift of givings on the score of failing voice they humour. They have invited me to pro- nust be mellowed with wine until their

hearts are warm within thein and pose the toast of British Music.

and they many an occasion the hat has been struck are more ready and less ashamed to sing. from moderately blameless head when (Laughter.) recommend British music thr Royal Anthem was sung be to you with enthusiasm. (Laughter.) cause I was musically disqualified from cannot, unfortunately, end it, so let us

tell

from it something which however

It mus one tune from another, and it fats almost be tortured and tried, may avo giving seemed to the watter

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of singular offence to non-musical persons. (Lou unimportance which tune was

being

Jaughter.)

If we can, indeed, attain to ed at any moment.

Tt that goal we shall not perish without the (Laughter.) would have been far more sensible to glory of achievement. (Laughter and invite his Grace, the Archbishop of Can-cheers.) terbury to propose the health of Ir. Sir Hugh Allen, Professor of Music at Mr. Oxford Coiversity, who replied, said health of Mr. Birkenhead had shown what a real

Lord

could think about music. Winston Churchill to propose the (Laughter.) The gramophone and the

of Trotsky. Let me the

(Renewal laughter.) pianoia bad done more to help musical in commending the students ia beir work than almost any- the tonat,

plain that thing else. perfectly

already difficult by recommending any form of foreign music. (Laughter.) Let me also make it perfectly plain, so that my qualifien- tions may be honestly understood, that.. although am a poor man, would rather pay 50 than sit through any classical concert which has ever been. ex- in this or any other country. It has always seemed to

Vicima Yaughter)-to invite

to

the

Forge-aughter)or to invite Britisher

it

I do not add to a task

hibited.

me that music could only be tolerated on the basis that it was not too loud. (Laughter.) Mr. Gladstone, although a Scotsman, was not addicted to gull, One day he was persuaded to have a round, and wits asked what he thought of him

Xperience

He replied thate it WAS AL walk spoiled. (Laughter.) have thought when 1 listened in restau- rants and other places where music has been generously expended, that it was good talk spoiled. They do say that music is food of love." Even for that I am too old. (Laughter.) Excepting for commercial purposes-(laughter)-we must reject that cloying appeal.

THE TORD OF MUSIC.

salute you, Mr. Chairman, nut, in- deed, as a great musician but one whom I may describe as the Henry Ford of "the musical world." (Laughter and cheers.) If you had we give your decision upon the rival issues of music or mass production, I suspect that your voice would

to the latter subject.

be

You are given, won the

high-brow charion of

framing

there

wor

the

is no

hav

of the musician. Ebelieve you

have often Bung "Except F be by Sylvia in the night

no music The nightingale. (Laughter.) Although not, "myself a musician,

inn, let me remind you that music has played a world. Men

part is the to useless battles inspired by strama of music. The great King David, in many ways an admirable character (laughter)-es per- haps on one well known occasion misled by the strains of music. (Laughter.) I am prepared to admit that some of the strongest and most stirring movements (Opstinued on rest Column).

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