September for many people is the month of the transition from holiday to work, In a week or so thousands of young folk in Eng: land will be congregating on station platforms—regretting each other after nearly eight-weeks' respite from—school. Politicians, although still free from the demands of West minster, will be thinking of taking a look at their constituencies. The bureaucrat will abandon that careless gesture which is betokened in his appearance at Whitehall in a flannel suit—even a soft collar He will permit the subfusc yur ments of blameless efficiency to clothe his form once more. There are of course those calculating business men and public servants who, when the leave arrang are planned, affect un ism which finds expression in postponement of their holiday until September breaks, They will in private confess that this move is dictated by the knowledge that during the regular holiday months, soothing quietude can be wooed in the otices. And they believe too tha holiday resorts give of the best to the latecomers. There method in their madness and in the effrontery of their pallor as contrasted with the warm tints of their returned colleagues.
Here. in sha reduced by the call of the taskmaster. The scenes in London jast now include thoss dey pullmans carrying. their fre of recruits for the the Far East. wings liner, the conmereial_ magnate setting wat on his usual cold-weather a his Asiatic interests, appropriate appurtenances—all figure in
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