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NOTES OF THE DAY

GERMANY'S BARCAIN

BRITAIN: LAND of

Bad HABITS.

A

by

Lionel Hale

MANIFESTO published by

Nowa despatches from Paris in- dicate that Germany is attempting to obtain from Great Britain a large sterling loan in return for Germany's promise to refrain from any action which will be Hikely to embarrass the Lengue of Nations in Its attempt to dis clpline Italy. According to the Paris version some considerable progress has been made. A bar- gain of this sort presupposes a certain amount of pressure on the part of the bargaining party. Germany, let us say, requests i loan from England in return for a pledge of neutrality. But what if no loan is forthcoming? Doča

a Fascist leader in Rome has it not seem like holding out some very harsh words to say the alternatives of a threat or about "pernicious British ha- promise? That sort of bargain-

bits." Its author, Signor ing is not the sort of thing to be en- couraged. If it is true that it is

Marinetti, pleads with his going on in Europe and that Brit-countrymen to adjure certain ain is netually prepared to listen habits which he considers an- to such overtures, it indicates a Italian; and the list is an in- state of tension very much more teresting one. desperate than we had supposed. Moreover, it will crente a feeling

Here it is: "Tea-drinking. of apprehension in France which | snobbery, golf-playing, Puritan- will most certainly be reflected in ism, clean-shavenness, pipe- future international dealings and smoking, bridge-playing, and In- which may even destroy the un explicable Apathy to Women." animity at Geneva on the part of the Great Powers. A nation which The Englishman has always attempts to profit from others' mis hewildered his European neigh- fortunes, or attempts to win ud-bours; but up to now he has been, vanisgos at a time when other more of a figure of fun than a countries are straining every nerve Horrid to keep a precarious peace, cannot cians, of course, have always Example. His politi- expect sympathy when she herself been considered to possess the in fneed with difficulties within or Stubbs Rd. dangers from without. It is, how guile of Machiavelli; but he him- ever, only fair to Germany to self has been looked on as an state that her leaders have amiable eccentric, the simpleton dofinitely declared for neutrality in the present erisis-a circumstance which shows the necessity of taking the Paris reports with considerable

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PREVENTING ROAD ACCIDENTS

Although the figures periodi

DEAN INGE

He shaves himself.

of Europe. With his guide to pat the head of his favourite books and travelling ulsters and niece, his passion for cold baths; he used to be the Buffoon; but now ed fellow shaves.

But, every day, the abandon-" he appears in his true colours, the Villain of the piece.

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MK STANLEY BALDWIN Ile smokes a pipe.

And while I am not sure that our English habits are good, I Now, with regard to the de- am, at any rate, sure that there testable vice of clean-shaven are worse habits. A man can- SIGNOR MARINETTI has un ness, Signor Marinetti seems to not do much harm by playing masked him. "Look at the me to show not only the re bridge, but he can do a great

The octopus of State control is steadily extending its influence, and the time may not be far dis-blackguard," he cries, and be- former's zeal but the reformer's deal of harm by playing dicta. tant when even such a personal ware!" He begins his day by courage; it can hardly have tor. And a taste for drinking matter as one's diet will be dictat-ten-drinking, when he should be escaped notice that the noblest tea is better, I fancy, than a ed by the universal Grandmother singing Giovinezza," which you Roman of them all, Signor Mus- taste for drinking blood. according to what she considera cannot do properly if you are solini himself, is clean-shaven. best for us. Already we see mul drinking tea.

titudes of school-children sucking

As Foon as I read Signor

The Very Idea!

milk through straws as a sort of He then satisfies his snobbery Marinetti's attack on clean- vision of the shape of things toby reading the Court Circular shavenness I trembled for its come! The savants of the British in his morning paper and by author, for he seems to me to: Association, at their meetings in gloating over the reports of the have put himself into the un- Norwich, have this year given marriages of marquises and the enviable position of a man who more attention to the feeding deaths of dukes, habits of the people than on any

runs through the streets of HOWLS AND HOWLERS Berlin crying with a holy rap- previous occasion. It looks as if He then goes out to play ture, "Down with tooth-brush

Down with Looth-A Postscript For The More

a great offensive for the improve-several rounds of golf, golden moustaches! ment of the national diet is to-hours wasted when he might be brush moustaches!" ward. We are making a muddle listening to patriotic speeches or of our ments. It would be difficult polishing his sword. During his to decide which are suffering more

It may be that the Duce has

cally issued do not consistently from malnutrition, the rich or the rounds of golf, lost to all sense no need of a beard, for he has

reflect the fact, it has been made poor. Both scelions of the com- apparent that measures taken inmunity, by their errors of eating, the Old Country to reduce road giving the dietetic experts acute

pain.

casualties are tending in the desired direction. None the less, the number of people killed | IGNORANCE IS BLISS

day,

present

The

Leisure Hour

Edited By Eddie "I'm having a new evening gown

"Surely you

as low as that?"

of shame, he makes matters a strong chin, a very strong chini worse by smoking a pipe. If a indeed. It may be, on the other smoking, he may soon find him- fearless reformer will sow seeds made, but my heart have it cut an man makes. a habit of pipe- hand, that the words of this

self-smoking-the-Pipe-of-Peace; of contrition in his heart, that and did that ever get a rising he will retire for a week or so, nation anywhere? Did Caesar and emerge proudly with a beard They had quarrelled and she had smoke a pipe? The question is as fine as (say) the beard of the returned his gifts, comb and

Emperor of Abyssinia.

the parting.

red,

brush.

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knows life in

Yot a further selection of “how!-

Caesar extinguished himself on the battle-fields of Gaul.

One of Drake's most famous 'ex- It may be that history would ploits was singing the King of

every week in traffic mishaps in the United Kingdom is un-bears got on very well without

It may be argued that our fore-absurd.

After lunch, presumably, he But at all events it was un- "It will make comfortably high. The opera carefully weighing and balancing plays a few more rounds of golf, commonly plucky of Signor easier," she said.. tion of the human factor on the their diet; that they knew nothing still smoking furiously, and Marinelii. roads was recently the subject of vitamins and calories, and were when the light fades he hurries

"Sorry, old chap, but I'm looking none the worse.. Their ignorance to the bridge-table, puritanically little perplexed about of discussion at the British As-

I must confess that I am affor a little financial succour again." was bliss and it is folly

these "You'll have to hunt further. I'm for us resisting the temptation to raise sociation meeting in Norwich, to try to be wise.

not the little financial sucker I used when varying views on the sub- thought of what we eat, can we

per- By taking a few friends and paint the town pernicious habits: I am ject were expressed. However, add a cubit to our stature, since perniciously maintained his "in whether they are pernicious or

And all day long he has plexed, thai is to say,

about to be." according to repute, the people of

not. If we look back on the issue may be regarded, there

everyone the old (knowing nothing of vitamins) explicable apathy to women." can be no questioning the point were sturdier than we? One won- I myself think that "inexpli evidence is very confusing.

great Englishmen of history, the certain parts of Hongkong assumed an' aspect of terrible competition that if the fallible human ele- dera whether all this fuss aboutable apathy to women" does not

in the way of social achievement. the persistent tendency of the Brit-fit very well with golf or bridge. Wesley renounced it; Mr. Lloyd, success my little dinner party was,

Dr. Johnson drank tea, John, ment could be eliminated, and

"You've no idea what a complete ish citizen to eat the wrong foods I have seen (and heard) elderly George is no bridge-player, but said one Mid-level lady to her Peak all traffic made fool-proof, the is not a super-illusion of the fad-and irascible gentlemen playing problem of the roads would solve dista, who are more numerous in a foursome when some gay Asquith was; Disraeli played no friend. "I expect you noticed all

England at. the itself. But that is asking for

than at any previous period.

time young thing has driven blithely games, but Drake played bowls; the cars outside my place? Nine. the impossible. There may be

mania for regulation and stands into their midst. They were not Lord Curzon's snobbishness is teen altogether! But you didn't room for the greater applien- ardisation spreads rapidly through apathetic then.

balanced by Lord Shaftesbury's last Saturday I only noticed three have many guests at your place out the land. It may tion of mechanical devices to

BOON I have seen them (and heard humanity; Milton, but not Marcars

be necessary for freedom-loving Bri- them) at the bridge-tabies when

lowe, was a Puritan; Raleigh the prevention of accidents, and tons (whose freedom is already to their charming partners failed smelted a pipe, but Ruskin des- "they were mine--I had no visitors "Oh," said the other, placidly, the future may be expected to a large extent a thing of the past to return their lead; and on such Gordon, and Isaac Newton were,

pised it; Macaulay. General that day." bring forth many inventions rather than of the present) to band occasions they are even less they say, apathetic to women, that can hardly be imagined to themselves together and announce apathetic. But this by the way. but they do not say the same of ers" from the classrooms:---

to all interfering experts that they We have seen an illustra-will continue to eat what and when

Exhausted, then, by these Charles II,. Byron, or Henry tion of this in the case of robot- they please, and that while the pernicious habits, the wicked VIII, controlled aeroplanes. But it chewing of State straws may be Englishman sinks into bed. very good for babes and sucklings, seems unlikely that the day will it is not a proceeding in which hausted by golf, swilled with ten, have been very different if Spain's beard.

Snobbishly, misogynistically, ex- ever come when every

motor self-respecting adult can find entsc drugged by his pipe, he goes to Gladstone had shaved his side- vehicle, private, public or com- for satisfaction.

Nelson was mortally killed at the sicep, recruiting his strength for whiskers or Balfour given up Battle of Trafalgar, and died after mercial, will be controlled by a

the ceaseless round of vice that golf: Contract Bridge was not it. self-acting robot chauffeur. In ed; it was recently stressed by

awaits him to-morrow.

known in the lifetime of the The King was not to order taxis. any event, such

a dévelopment à leading traffic official at Home resume

I have omitted from this Duke of Wellington, but if he without the consent of his Parlia would be regarded by many as-namely, that on all occasions demeanours one of his habits, player he might never have won for, committing suicide under the

of the day's mis had been fanatical bridge- ment.

To-day many people are in gaol robbing motoring of much of its where there has been human perhaps the most pernicious of the battle of Waterloo,; if King influence of drink. pleasure. When science has failure of any sort, the degree of

them all. He shaves himself. John, had been able to smoke a

Queer Elizabeth's face was thin. done all that it can do to make danger has been in direct ratio is a thing he does unfailingly would have had to sign Magna testant,

Now this is serious, because it pipe, who knows whether he and pale, but she was a stout Pro- the highways safer, there will to the speed of the moving ob- every day. He does not play Carta? still remain the necessity for thejects. Yet there are still many golf every day-indeed, I have

"Phillippe was a brave queen; she married Edward 'L." discipline of the human mind, motorists who proclaim that known some noble. souls who

Breeding Poralan cats is the thereof speed has nothing to do with the have given it up for a week at BUT it may also well be that it chief industry in Persia travel on wheel or on foot. And ease. Obviously, it has,

Ja time; he may miss his bridge is not upon these things

James IV. was a populous King ond experience in Hongkong, as in until, this fact is realised to the there may be rare days when he The Abyssinians, I imagine, are

Saliva is a liquid that flows out. when he goes to the theatre; that a nation's greatness rests.

of a volcano. England, shows that that dis-full by the motoring public, so reforms and

Shakespeare wrote drinks coffee not likely to take much comfort comedies, and errors.

tragedies. cipline cannot be inculcated in long will needless traffic fatali- instead of tea; sometimes he from the reflection that their Brussels is famous for its car- a week or a year. It is of ties be recorded. If every sickens of his degrading puritan country is about to be invaded pats and sprouts." gradual growth and needs to bo motorist were to resist theism and is carried home drunk; by a pure-minded nation that

In Holland the people use water- insistently encouraged

he may lose his pipe and take to drinks no tea, despises golf and power to drive their windmills, and temptation to indulge in high garettes, he may relax his bridge, has a very soft corner developed. But there is one speed whilst out driving, the snobbishness and say good-day in its heart for women, smokes football match is called a refugee. The man who keeps order at a. central factor to which atten- road casualty list would show ato a coal-heaver; he may conquer cigars, and grows hair on its tlow ennnot be too often direct steady diminution.""

In the United States people bre This apathy to women so far as face.

put to death by elocution.

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