There appears no end to the versatility of the Geddes family, if the report be correct that Sir Auckland of that ilk is going as our ambassador to Washington. Of course he has a certain amount of leeway to make up compared with his brother Sir Eric who started the' boom in Geddes stock. From being something in the railways the latter blossomed forth into a General and then an Admiral. He appears to have filled both positions to everybody's satisfaction, and he certainly suited the uniform, and then he became a politician. No sooner did this happen than Sir Auckland appeared on the scene, and thonch graduating neither throuch the Army nor Navy, he rapidly leapt into prominence. From being war. or temporary. both have ition or politic ministers, and now Sir t auckland threatens to invade the sacred precinets of the diplomatic service. Tt is like the Lord High Executioner ig gale, As one sometimes is in trances. To a height that few can scala, Save by long and weary dances, Mer. 4, A "Red" Mayflower Some people may have felt some incongruity in the recent deportation from America, the fine flower of democracy. of a ship load of "Red" agitators: but the great majority will have admitted that constitutional government sup: ported by the bulk of the nation has every right to protect itself against anarchy. So it is easy to imagine the hubbub that aros" when Dr. Perey Grant. of the Enisconal Church of the Ascension. in New York. compared ithe Buford (the that carried the Reds) with the Mayflower, and that in the pulpit. This is what. he is reported to have said "Two hundred and ninety-nine years ago today the Mayflower sailed into Plymouth Harbour. To-day the Soviet ark sailed, from New York. T am not sure that the sailing of the "Soviet ark will not take a place in history equal to the landing of the Pilgrims. To deport persons for having and preaching ideas is a very materialistic thing to do. You may deport three hundred or three million and think you are going to deport ideas, but you're not. Could one have devised a more fruitful method of advertising a cause or a more successful method of gaining friends for it? This deportation seems to have cast discredit on the boasted American tradition of free speech and discussion, the tradition that was so loved by Abraham Lincoln."
Bishops were mobilized against Dr. Grant and copious evidence of the essentially anti-Christian nature of Bolshevism was adduced. But Dr. Grant stood his ground and. supported by his churchwardens, appears to have weathered the storm. It is not our business to criticize him, but we think we have heard of people of his calibre on the English side of the Atlantic. Are they not of the kind whom libert was thinking of when ho condemned The idiot who praises in enthusiastic tone Every century but this and every country but his own, Dignified Dancing iis important movenens "reomty Further details may be given of
noted in these columns, to render dancing more dignified; the jazz is to go and the "shimmie" is to be chief mourner at the funeral, while. possibly, jazz shoes, jazz stockings, jazz dresses and the hundred and one other things which have be adjectivally jazzed will probably act as pall bearers. At least this is the wish of the American National Assoriation of Masters of Dancing. The art is to become something in the nature of a stolidity. Devotees, are to be instructed to dana from the waist down, not from the waist up, they will not, be allowed to "twinkle" nor perform any other ° astronomy ical feat which may occur on the spur of the moment. while as to demeanour on the ball room floor the Association issues the following instructions "Dancers should assume a light, graceful position. There should be no jerky half-steps, for these cause undesirable variations. Partners should not dance cheeks close or touching, nor should clasp be tight. 'Neck "holds' ard positively unpardonable. The gentleman's arms should encircle his partner's waist, his hand resting lightly just above the waist line. The lady's left arm should not encircle, her partner's shoulders or neck."
From all of which it might be. deduced that it is also no longer permissible for a man to bite his fair partner's car in order to obtain a hold with his mouth which modesty refuses his hands.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.