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SLOWER TRAINS:

IN SPITE OF FASTER ENGINES.

In the past few years throo now classes of locomotives with which British railway companies. have openly expressed the highest satisfaction have been brought | into service in this country-the "King Arthurs" of the Southern, the "Castles" of the Great Wes tern, and the Pacifios of the London and North Eastern. Yet the remarkable fact remains that Failway travol is little, if any, faster than it was, writes a tra- voller at Home.

Indood, in some cases it is slower. .Bournemouth is longer within two hours of Lon- don as it was a dozen years ago. And we travel to Scotland hardly any faster than we did a gonera- tion ago. The very best time on this journey was accomplished, in fact, about 35 years back during The race botweon the rival West Const and East routes.

Apart from Devon, Cornwall, and South Walos, fow districte are very much nearer in time to London than they were at the be

Tho ginning of the century. acueleration of the trains to and from the Wost' is due, both to the shortening of routes and to the determination of the Great Wes- iern in bo the fastest line.

Thero is to-day only ons train- from Swindon to Padddington, 77 miles in 75 minutes-that is better than our best before the war.

The other long-distance train booked at a speed of over 60 miles an hour-Paddington toi Bath by slip coich, 106 milos in 105 minutes has been In existence for some time. So the recent increase of locomotive power does not seem to have Baved any time to the traveller, though it does enable the new engine to cope with the increased! weight of the trains. The now Incomative can deal with fifteen for sixteen corridor coaches-can, in fact, draw a train rather longer than the platforms at even some of the important stations.

But this, impressive fact is not likely to console the man who takok longer to reach his destina-i tion than his father took in those remoto years at which we all

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HORRID FAIRY TALES.

A BAN ON BLUE BEARD.

An attack on the old-fashioned fairytale; with its usually gruc- some ending, is made by u correspondent of The Daily Chronicle.

Every child loves fairy tale (sho) writes, but it is extraordinary' the number of stories, famillar to us from childhood days, which contain tragedies.. For my own part I har all those tules from the nursery, having discovered the effect they have on the im- pressionable mind of a child. There are plenty of delightful tales written by modern authors which can take their place. Even now I can feel a slight thrill of horror when I think of the story of "Bluebeard," which exercised. such a dreadful fascination over my mind that I repeatedly askod for it to be re-told, only to beg for the story to be broken off at a point when I could bear no more.

AGE LIMIT-SIX.

A doctor whom a represenin- tive of The Daily Chronicle inter- viewed said fairy-tales should cortainly be left until the child is six or seven years of age.

"The child's mind is so impressionable. and its nervous system so easily disorganisod that the greatest care should be taken, in the first! few years, to avoid undue excite- ment of any kind," he added. "{ would certainly not allow any small children of mine to be told such a tolo as 'Bluebeard,' or avon "Rad Riding Hood.""

MisH Margaret McMillan. whone work at the Rachel McMillan Open-air Nureury School at Deptford is well known, holds that up to the age of two à child is so busy rogistering im- pressions of the world in which it finds itself that there is no novd to tell it tales, and in any caso nothing at all gruesome should ever be allowed."

"At the age of about six the child is, as it were, a little savaga running after pigeons, tousing animals-and. has to learn that cruelty is wrong, and that which have to be ourbod.

"At this age I seo no harm in the old fairy tales "being told. The child will not now accept everything us literally true, and the 'horrora' of a fairy tale will: leave little, if any, impression."

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