May 14.
Gloncing over the long list of Indies presented at this week's Courts—the chief feature of which was a picture fof the Prime Minister looking much realist policy as he could in gold lace and knee breeches, leaving his house for the palace—i caught myself. thinking. that. the aggregate cost of uniforms, " dresses, ostrich feathers, shoes, stockings, lessons making acurtsey, hair-dressing, makeup, sandwiches, champagne, electric light and what businessmen call "overheads" would represent on which most of us would reuire happily. into private life. 1 also wondered how many "debs," starting the season fresh and interested, would end it otherwise than bored and blase.
All of which is, of course, a most improper bolshevik' way of thinking, due perhaps to a stuffy thundery day, when every part of England seems to have had rain except our own Gobielike garde
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