offers "of professional engagement "Perry has held out against" the
vith considerable astuteness. "His amateur status enabled him to add to value, by winning whatever els ayu, tennis had for him. He feels now that with virtually no more Worlds to. canguer ne can aall his services at the top of the market. The financial results are overwhetingly attractive to-a young man who. has, forcibly adopted the old motto: if tennis. interferes with your business: ive up your business." &n'the fins and in exhibition matches he will now be able to make a fortune beyond the dreams of the man who plods in the usual profes: sional or "commercial advantage of the enormous chan; wrought by the publicity given to a game to which he has made import ant contributions. At the same time open to doubt whether this luring the desirable residence, that it should have taths h. and ¢, council's water, and all_ modern conveniences, house agents will from henceforth have. to announce the bomb-proof or gasproof qualities of the buildings they jate endeavouring to cent. this, Irrespective of the gravel sell or'the being wiped out without option If-an aeroplane bomb were to light on one's premises? Difident couples, secking fo, furnish "their homes at the imum cost compatible with. the would-be~husband's. income, can be envisaged reasoning among. themselves: the bedrooms, drawing zoom, dining room, furnished, what of th gas shelter and the bomb-proof dug-'Out? These must,.of course, be decorated in a fashion consonant with the rest of the house and worthy of the social position of the owners, An extra burden which must be laid to
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