London, Oct. 15, The unfortunate prevalence in recent times of suicide among. the young lends interest to the speech of Miss Faithfull, late principal of Cheltenham College, at the Church Congress, where inter alia two first class "stunts" have been evolved— the decay of sermons and. the equality of all races. Miss Faithfull discussed the modern girl and passage or two may be quoted {for the benefit of "The young people of to-day old in some ways beyond their years. We cannot understand these children who have grown up too early—these children of the wa who have had to bear sacrifices that children before them have never had to bear. I have found them rational, philosophic, determined, lent, little hard, perhaps But they have not absence of religious teaching in the home, They consider four generation responsible for the horrors of the war in which they have had to suffer. They think we should apologize to them and make it up in some way. I think they expect a higher standard of us than they expect of themselves. They expect us to meet them as long a3 as autocrats. comradeship in their elders, but not submission to them.
So many mothers and fathers are encourage dren to call afraid of growing old, that they
them by their Christian names and treat them with a familiarity that often becomes defiance and ends up in a lack of morals and defiance of the laws of God. We do not want to turn children into little men and little women before their time. But parents must know their own children and find out their difficult es and their desires. They do not Jat present. In the rush of out~ tide interanta, they ye litle "at years, The only control that the young will acknowledge is the control of those who know and love them.
"It is irritating to the young to be told continually that smoking is, a crime, of, at best, is vulgar. It forgotten that dress in every ce has been ridiculous, that paint fand powder are not new but were the rule in. bygon The crinolines of the Victorian age, the swishing skirts of our own, were just as bad as the short and tight skirts of to-day, "Smoking, powder, and paint, and present day skirts are on an emtirely different footing from drinking, swearing and being in debt. We have to: appeal to young women in new way and they will respond. We want a.new crusade of the people realize, not social character of selfish indulgence, the wrong and misery and injustice inflicted children by divorce, and the wreck of homes. We want to ask of youth the time of peace big and definite things as we asked of it in time of war, and it will rise to it. We want a mission to the West End; we want Savonarola—many we want to set on new Holy War and a new quest of the Grail."
Loxoon, Nov. 5—Mr. Ronald McNeill, Under-Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs, has been appointed Financial Secretary to the Treasury in place of Lt.-Col. Walter Guinness, who succeeds Mr. F. L, Wood as Minister of Agricul-
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