Few English rulers would be so crude as to put half the people in concentration camps because they id not like the look of their faces.
o, they will let them live happily ever after in Manchester, West Ham, Halifax, Wednesbury, Normanton, and Glasgow, and will not resent an occasional intrusion into the pleas ance of Pall Mall. For those who cannot quite enjoy Manchester or Glasgow and who are bitten with the bug of intellectual superiority, there are the respectable wildernesses of Hampstead Garden Suburb, Boars Hill at Oxford, a University Settlement, and the City of Edinburgh, which looks as though it was always over a game of billiards and give the law to those privileged to listen to them. Across the road in seen the chaste blue and white sculptured frieze of the Simon Pure Athenaeum. Instinetively we pass quietly in case we disturb the cloister-like peace of the exalted persons who use its unique treasures. Next door is the Travellers, a most exclusive affair. It was here that Tallyrand spent his leisure hours. when ambassador in London. This cunning old fox, who had promised to obey no less than thirteen different forms of government and had successfully intrigued against them all, found appreciation of his talents and silence from his mistresses. Its outside appearance at the time of writing is that of a traveller who is too tired to enjoy a wash and brush up.
The next is a ghost in stone. It is the Reform. a citadel which, in the spacious days of Gladstone, was the temple of the Whig iconoclasts. Today it resembles a tomb of the Pharaohs, for its treasures are buried and with true pathos the only notice on its doorway is written round a little circle, which reads: "In case of fire, break the glass."
The larger building next door is that Holy of Holies known as the Carlton. Any person who is not true blue and lacks the rich blood which naturally flows in the veins of all sound Tories would be far too bashful to cross the threshold. It is not done, gentlemen, it is not done. It was at a meeting in this club in 1922 that the reign of Mr. Lloyd George was declared to be at an end.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.