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NEW INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION.

SOUTH OF ENGLAND AS A TRADE CENTRE.

CHANGES IN NATIONAL LIFE.

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SLEEVES IN LONDON OFFICES.

CRITICS OF BARE ARMS.

WOMAN STOCKBROKER'S

APPROVAL.

ENGLISH VISITOR RUNS AMOK.

AT THE

SHOTS AT FRENCH POLICE.

QUEEN'S

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A strange story of an English visitor who can amok with a volter is told by the Dieppe cor- respondent of the Matin."

Opinion is divided on the ques

He states that an Englishman tion raised by the objection of Monaghan Board of Health to typists wearing shart-sleeved, low. hailed a taxi and asked the driver necked dresses at business. The to take him to Roven. At about board have asked the secretary to atory, it is working suggest to their typist that she six in the evening he started home-

A new revolution is reshaping in- dustrial England, and, as in the case of many other epochs in the national

without the

the North.

movement pro-

more ♫

knowledge of the should adopt

auitable in the same tax, but before be reached Dieppe he asked the driver people of England. A few, only fashion for the board-room,

wholehearted- Short sleeves were

to stop for a few minutes and went; a very few, experts that is his-

Miss Gordon approved by torians and economists--have yet Holmes, London's only woman off. A quarter of an hour passed, awakened to the fact that slowly rock-broker, and joint managing and the driver beginning to get but certainly, the venue of British director of the National Securities anxious for his fare, went in search

In tho

Ha found him industry de changing.

Corporation, Ltd,, who has bad of the missing man. North development, uguisnes, IN the South it proceeds apace. That, through her hands. "My

Petit Abbeville, but when he ap- the said, “all wear sleeveless jum-peared the Englishman drew a fe briefly, is the situation in most in-

at him. dustries; in others, expansion in

pers, and they strike me as being volver and flourished it the South outpaces expansion a very sensibly dressed for their The taximan naturally retired as work. I should regard long droop quickly as possible and drove at It, seems at first sight almost D-

ing sleeves, which collect dust and

onee to Dieppe, where he informed conce:vaule that a mising such an entirely now orien-dirt, and get in the way of the the police. tation of English life could proceed typewriter, as most unbusinesslike. before our very eyes and that in my opinion, the present sleeve people should yet remain in ignors dress of modern girls is sen- ance. But there is the fact. The sible for any sort of work, sport, explanation is that one does not or play. I wholeheartedly approve

of short sleeves in the office. see such a movement in the concrete se much as in the facts and figures which, A rule, a buried

as obscure official publications. These epenk eloquently of the change The principal source of revelation has been the Ministry of Labour: Gazette, which succeeding issues has analysed statistically changes

scores of young shortestant the neighbouring station of

h

in

had at laat denounced the shors-

Miss Kerr-Sander, the head of large secretarial training school, was delighted to see that someone sleeved dresses worn by office girls, The short-sleeved, low-necked dress," she said. is the one thing which I forbid among my girls Besides being unbusinesslike, this in the geographical distribution of fashion is not in the least becom person's employed. under the Uneming, as the girls seem to think it

These, ployment Insurance Acta

ia. it is downright ugly. I, warn- excluding from its investigations my girls that when they-bought the special schemes of banking and coed wardrobe they would insurance, show that for London and the South-Eastern areas they have to see that there were no short now comprise no fewer than 45.4 serves or low necks, as I refused per cent of the total for the entiro to send any of my girls out to apply for posts in such a ridieu- country!

lous attire."

natural This strikes me as a sort of comment to come from the backwoods of Ireland," said the secretary of the National Union of Clerks, referring to the criticism of the Monaghan Board of Health.

In "The London Area, They are supported by an obser- vation in the report for 1923 of the chief Factory Inspector, who points out that the area, surrounding London continues to develop in

Short sleeves are generally recog dustrially in a remarkable man- ter." He comments, too; upon nised now as being a great in "the astonishing prosperity of provement upon the stuffy old cus- Coventry and district. Birming- tom of long sleeves, which, I have

A watch was set for the return

of the visitor, who was observed to enter his hotel & title before mid- night, thereupon a commissioner of police, accompanied by a clerk and a constable, went in and calle upon the Englishman to open his door. The visitor half opened the door and greeted his callera with

bullet which grazed the con stable's ear, the policemen replied with a Valley and the commissioner rushed into the room, where he found the Englishman lying in a pool of blood which was flowing frem a wound in his right breast.

He was taken to hospital, where' he was questioned. It appears that he is an engineer, from Birming ham with a wife and one child. The French authorities have taken charge of the case.

CITY HALL.

Coming Shortly

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ham and its surroundings offer furno doubt, would be approved by R. B. SALISBURY'S the Board. Sometimes one has to ther evidence. As a centre for raw n.aterials and semi-products, it recognise that the employer has a has, through

and right to say what shall be the tone exhaustion, through the attraction of rural can- of his office, but, generally speak- tres, lost much of its status, and ing, one does not apprave of the competition from abroad has hit employer going beyond the require- meats of his business. So long as severely the junior metal trades. Yet by adaptability and ingenuity, his typist carries out her work effe by the switching from declining in- ciently and adopts a quiet manner dustries to those like the making of this should be all that is required motors, artificial silk and wireless, of hér. But employers differ. A demanded by the new age in which good many prefer to see their we live, and the making up of typists smart dressed, and speak- various staple food commodities, ing for myself I think short sleeves this vast area not merely holds its look smart."

A typist employed in a large own, but increases its industrial im-

City office who was questioned ad- portance

This latter fact is of supreme im-vanced & proposal for avoiding I and my collesguer portance, because it illustrates per-contention. haps the main reason for the South found that the most sensible things ward trend-a change in the type to wear," she said, "were smart,

overalls and character of efficient industrial long-sleeved methods. Hitherto, it has been frocks. By doing this we can wear claimed that initiative, invention, any kind of frock we like under- experiment, have come from the neath without fear of getting it North. There seems now no doubt soiled or looking unsuitably dress- I know several other offices that such qualities are to be found ed. principally-shall one day?south where girls get over the difficulty

The in this way." of the Derbyshire peaks.

| Ministry of Labour Reports, from which we have already quoted, show that in the years 1923 to 1920 prin- cipal decreases in personnel of em- ployment were mainly in the old Industries located in the North: principal increases were almost con- Anod to Dewer industries, and, "with services which are opening up the Southern countryside, urbanising the rural areas.

Some Consequences. In an interesting summary of a gigantic MASS of figures, Mr. Hamilton, formerly assistant editor of the Ecunomist, and now a men ber of the Balfour Committee on British Trade and Industry, set up by Mr. Ramsay MacDonald during his Premiership, says this change may be at least as revolutionary as the great change in the middle of fast century, which shifted the economic centre of gravity from textiles to coal, iron and steel, and engineering, and created the Trade Union movement in ita modern form.

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A runaway borse at Clerkenweli fell into an area and its head and front legs went through the win- dow of the kitchen where Mrs. widow, of Waterloo- Gwyther, a street, was cutting beans.

Mrs. Gwyther stated that as she there was a load sat working crash, the area grating and the window. fell. in, and there was a horse, big as life, and foaming at the mouth, hauging with its head and front legs right through my kitchen window. I am an invalid and the shock upset me. My son, who was upstairs, came running in and somehow they got me out of the room."

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The son stated that the horse turn- ed on its side, snapped the shafts of This is not an over-statement of the the van with which it had bolted, situation. As the process develops, and fell headlong into the kitchen. there will clearly be radical deve. It went wild, kicking and strug- lopments in rational problems. gling as we tried to get it on its Oac scarcely need fear that the legs. It smashed the furniture, South will be industrialised with chairs, table, a chest of drawers that careless disregard of amenity crockery and glass ware. We got and of health which characterised it on its legs, and then the problem was how to get it out of the kit the industrial revolution in the North, but obviously danger lurks. then. It couldn't go the way it and those organisations which seek came, for the area grating is only to preserve what is left of beauti- about two feet wide and there is a fal England would do well to be sheer drop of 'eight or nine feet from the street level to the kitchen. "After a great deal of strug gling we got the horse through the

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was One of the stairs derived most of its inspiration from şard.

Trade smashed. In the yard the horse Fri. workers; the Northern

There is no Uniopiam, too. The South has al-west wild again. ways been a brake on precipitancy. direct way out to the street. We Will it now become a spur There got some planks and scaffolding and will be repercussions, too in poli- make a platform from the sird tics, and as the moment it looks as door up the next flight of stairs to

the hall, and then, kicking a good Mon though the Left stands to gain.

Indeed, there arises a fascinating deal, the horse wis persuaded to array of speculations, most of which out through the front door to Tace. time only can determine. But that the street. It got quieter then, and

WAL time is not likely to be long draw the driver led it away. It was In ten years we shall, no only slightly scratched in: one or

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