ven to retrospect and these days. The! mind harks "back, making comparisons, invidious and otherwise. In our case, it wandered back a Hittle matter of 90 years, the excurion prompted by some excerpts from the "Hereford Times" of September 2, 1887. "The date awoke something. of the "them was the good old day dictum in us, People were botter off then, we persuaded ourself. There was far less to do and far. more time in which to do Further scrutiny of these ence however, brought swift disillu ment on this score, It transpires that even then people re busy in their simple under the caption of births, we note that:
"At Howth, the lady of the Right Honourable Justice Perrin, of a daughter. This is the 22nd child of the learned Judge."
One wonders if it was also the 22nd child of the lady of the learned Fudge. If so, she would easily have qualified at Shanghai as one who might authoritatively address the the subject of school fees, fares, and the:
influence of night life on ing child, ete., ete.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.