Apropos of the above, I was taken two days ago to sec the Bachelor Girls' Exhibition in Westminster—not the girls themselves of course, but things for them. We got into thi wrong hall at first, among mountains of woollies and hug-me-t and old ladies and bearded clergymen. But a friendly policeman explained that this was a mission and set us on the right track, minus two shillings we had paid for entrance and could not recover.
The phrase "bachelor girls" seems curinasly rxehaic now, and rather silly. There are just giris—some follow a trade, some don't, but all are brought up to have one, even among higher placed maidens who might do nothing but cushion and sew a gold seam, and whether they live in rooms by them selves or with papa and mamma their independence ems equally admitted.
The first object we encountered was a huge stall covered with engagement and wedding rings, which hardly seemed in keeping with the name of the exhibition. Further exceedingly _depressed-looking. damsel with an immense head of hair, partly made up in three different styles at once, sat on a sort of throne, with a man alongside (but_why a man?) to exhibit possible ways of doing the hair. By the time we had lost count of these, as of the innumerable stalls of coameties, face creams, lip-sticks, nail-polishers, eyebrow-trainers and others dressing table properties, we up commenting on the inconsistence of human-kind.
The most interesting part was the Chamber of Horrors, which was Jearefully put in the charge of fof the prettiest girls in the Hall, though this was not the only source lof its interest. Here were a ducking-hair—also called a tew or thewe—of 1579, from Inswich, used for! the correction of scolds; a whipping. post, presumably for cases beyond treatment by the chair, and any number of relics of the militant jsuffragettes—the print dress worn bya lady of title at Holloway, the Inote-book of another who recorded how she beguiled the time in hospital by tearing up her sheets, and how she was bitten by a dog, which really might have happened to her any: beautiful young sufferer being for-ably fed, with hideous glee, by a [peculiarly brutal-looking doctor and to fall ading like the German mark? "The country's position," he added, "is absolutely sound. Our share inthe world's gold holdings has practically doubled in two years. Our wheat production is 10 Per cent, more than it was in 1920, whereas during the same that of the United States clined 40 per cent. Wi rear industrial countries millions of unemployed, we had only 1,000 last June." Some of Tradieu's compatriots are inclined to doubt the wisdom of making such. proclamations of prosperity, which. they regard as certain to excite envy and increase the chances of war, That this possibility is not overlooked by the Government shown in a series of articles in the "Matin" by M. Stéphane Lauzanne, who has been visiting the frontier defences along the line extending. from the North Sea to the Mediterranean, It consists of what he describes as a "chain" in which the old-fashioned forts, now merely targets for heavy artillery, are replaced by a great number of small-ive positions.—Their and other trained men that Lauzanne is driven to the conclusion, that the country will have to revert, toa professional army. In the next war it will not be sufficient to shout ux armes, citoyens!" and rush the front in a frenzy of
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