Awaking to an Easter which gives little promise of a settlement of our Cifficulties, We once again wonder at connection there can be between rabbits and Easter eggs, and why they are always in juxtaposition in our confectioners' shops at this season, However, so long as the models be of something sweet and eatable our children will not inquire too closely into the origin of symbols. "Though Emily Post has no notes on the subject, I understand that in the best nursery circles the correct procedure is to commence -ating chocolate rabbits tail first (a rule which used to apply when devouring sugar pigs in ancient days when they were manufactured), From now on for a few days Shanghai mothers will be agitated to note that disintegrating animals and candy eggs have bee? left exposed to microbes awaiting further assault at a later date, and Goubtless correctives will be the next items on numerous family programmes, "Kiss Me, Hardy"
From a Shanghai schoolgirl in Eng-lend comes the story of a general knowledge paper, which abominations, despite all we hear of advances in educational methods, apparently still flourish, Well, one question is seid to have quoted "Kiss me, Hardy. and asked who was reputed to h said this, The answer from more than half the class came back: "Laurel." I cannot of course be sure that my schoolgirl informant is not "pulling an old one," for being as fallible as the compilers of the funny magazines apd the joke columns, I may be repeating an old chestnut, but it was given me for an original, Anyway the answers served the ex-miners right, for who is any better for remembering these unimportant ghostly messages from' dead folk of history? True, the gossip of history is all that we remember of text book lore after school days, and such things as: "Look after poor Nelly," "Calais will be written on my heart, "We are not amused," and "I never take off my clothes before it is time for me to go to bed" stick long afte" constitutional items have left our minds, What does one remember about the Siege of Londonderry, for instance, beyond the fact imported by Mr. Meiklejohn that there was only one fat man in Londonderry at that time and he dared not go out? This item will at least intrigue our modern diet faddists, for if a man can retain his fat on a genuine starvation diet, then there seems no hope for the adipose. the fuller life will do it from choice rether than from necessity, and in order to develop their talents, Aye, there's the rub. Not from necessity, and, not, to develop their talents! Unfortunately employers are so insensitive to women's needs that they almost insist that those they employ shall pit their energies towards developing the business to which they put their hands, and are net a bit interested in the feminine necessity for self-expression. So long as a female employee brought grist to his dull commercial mill, the average man of commerce would not care one jot whether she developed a pink or a purple aura, nor would he bother about her personal entertainment in office hours.
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