Apropos of slums I sco that 12 schoolgirls of Maidstone and 12 of Manchester are to exchange courtesies in May. The northern children will stay for some days in the prettiest parts of Kent and then the southern Children will have their turn among tthe factories of Lancashire.
"The idea seems decidedly worth cultivating. We often hear of exchange visits between the schools of this country and some part of the Continent. Wellington has lately got self criticized by arranging such on exchange with some Nazi schoolboys precisely at the time when Oxford jand Cambridge have refused to send delegates to. the 550th anniversary plentiful ara comparatively cheap as this one, "Usuatly between the ends of shrysamtherntig and the Tater port of February flowers are a rich fan's luxury. This" year we have fad "anemones "and "frees "and eaffoaiis though not growin oxtct. doors have been purchasable for four five weeks." Now too, massies of it ete are being cold In the strets With grapes," peaches, nectarines plums and pears Notore ud the seasons have no mote power over the Pleasures of this tuxurlous ety, By the way, the green grocers ars stso selling fine-looking. mushrooms, which T have always associated: with ows. 'September' mornings, The fair-tale of Beauty and the Beast andthe ras in December il son have any, meaning for Chinese Interest Continues Although the Chinese Exhibition ended last night the interest it evoked in thing Chinese continues ardently, The windows of art dealers in the West End are prolific in Chinese porcelain, brocades and furniture, and there are frequent auctions of Chinese curios. Chinese carpets, of course, have long been superseding those of Turkey. The latter are not to be compared with what they were, while both in design and manufacture the Chinese carpets are almost unapproachable.
Now there is to be a new Chinese play to be given at a matinee at the Cambridge Theatre, for charity, on March 31. It is calisd "Weeping Willow" and is based on the story that is woven into the design of the familiar willow-pattern plates. Actually it Is not a Chinese composi: ton, but the Chinese Ambassador has read the play and made some sugestions, and has appointed Mr. Liu the secretary of Embassy to super~ vise the painting of the scenery, and the dresses. Several well known people, Mrs. Baldwin, Lady London erty and Lady Orford amorly them fare on the organizing committee Mr. Liu is also helping to arrange music for the play. The iden hax been suggested of getting Chinese musicians to play real Chinese musie, but those who know what it Is ike tre a little doubtful of its appeal to non-Chinese ears, Women and Oxford The intrusions of women into Oxford have frequently been criticized, bhut only by men. Now one of their own number, Miss Margharita Lask, daughter of the K. C. of that name and an undergraduetic of Lady Margaret College has declared that wonien have no place in Oxford and it is a bad thing for the university that they were ever admitted, celebrations of "Heidelberg, because Jof the pernicious interference in German universities by the Nazis, But it seems to me personally. far more important that girls and boys should firet know how their "opposite numbers" live in other parts of their own country.
In the Duke of York's sca-side camp and in some others, I believe, public-school and working-class boys tive on equal terms, with very happy results I am told, and it would be a {Good thing if girls could do the same. For the crepancies between North and South England are really bee coming a serious question for the Men are part of the tradition built by men for hundreds of year writes in. the of educat cannot. be absorbed into that tradition, cannot fet anything save, frustration from Being surrounded by that tradition and remain unassimitated, al Because the thoughts of "ood well educated youn: women to thoughts of marriage, says, many young men are involved in engagements years before they should be thinking of such things. there is no college life for woman [whole nation.
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