A false system of Yogic in inter national affairs was fabricated, Just 18 unreal as if Euclidean reasoning were founded upon—to use a contradiction of terms—a series of tntrue axioms, And Britain took more closely to her heart than did any of the other nations. Problems arising within the League were to be solved by means of this false logic, Lines of resening were followed which were bound to. fail because other parties to the argue ment were not bound by the system, Dut preferred to Jock the. realities Im the face and act accordingly.
The only doctrine which can possibly apply in these days is that of ale rebus stantibus, and that recog-life, There is about the individual not fight in the next war, if and Certain crispness of thought and when it comes, may be taken as though the times are tenser there is mere symptoms of their immaturity.
wealth of pole which suggests to They represent a phase through which the onlooker" that Individually—and, Jadolescence has inevitably to pass, therefore, if properly handled, in the and the older generation in giving smass—Britons are just as able to rise such incidents too much importance {othe occasion now as. they have fare guilty of the mistake to which been in the past. England lp living older age is 80 often prone. ata greater speed, The spacious Adeals of Sacrifice 1011, or 20 they seemed then, have disappeared, Competition hes They would fight! The same high ideals animate them as those which, Yecome Keener, the demands" upon the individual have become reater, Inspired the enormous sacrifices of Dut they are being met with © quiet the Great War. The same spirit enthusiasm which augurs well for the abroad in the land, and the mar future, hood of the United Kingdom would New Women of England require Ite if any more urging to fo to the Colours in this year of No reference to this new England face than they did twenty odd years would be complete without some ago, But, and here is the danger, thing weltten about its women. Much they would do it with a greater; has appeared "of Into" tending 10 understanding, a fuller realization of compare the 'English woman' une the perils they would have to face. favourably with those of other coun The danger les, therefore, not to tries, notably of the United. States, Great Britain herself, but to those Most of those comparisons have been she may be called upon to fight, for superficial through failure to realize this comprehension which youth now all the factors which have contsipossesses, the consequent greater apbuted to the creation of the Ameri-redation of the sacrifices it may be can fisl, The melting pot which fealled upon to make, will lead to a fas "brought forth. that glorious demand for a greater satisfaction in ereatere has combined all that the ultimate result. Not by the full ood in many nationalities, whi application of the doctrine of voe Greater degree of adaptability and a vletis, but by the more certain as-Wivid-consciousness of beauty has surance that youth shall not be provided "a finished product. which called upon lightly again to provide eserves all the encomiums bestow-for the security of posterity. fed upon it, Indeed it is something of that But does the English girl fall so thought which has inspired these de-far behind In. beauty? "Your own clarations of youth. They are anima omnibuses, trams, tubes and public ated neither by cowardice nor a laces will speedily give the denial, reluctance to meet the demands which Perhaps' the ratio" of beauty Is not the needs of their country must 80 great, but the sheer good health times make upon them, but with a of the young English woman cannot clearer vision they demand that the possibly be denied. "Refuge in cos: fruits of such sacrifice shall be found Ietics is hiding one of the English {in reality and not in the vain put dir's main beauties, her complexion, but she is learning how to dress.
Bult of the clusive oni tru fan unapplied idealism.
tle true that she, like her In these very troublesome days American. sister, 1s too" closely f0l-almost seems as if age were being lowing the screen for her styles 1a given another chance. Past fears dress and make-up, with the result have a cramping hold upon all its Ghat Individuality is yielding to the processes while a new generation who stereotype, Nevertheless ats fond the knows nothing of those fears is pro-English girl is just as fine as ever essing towards maturity, starting she was, specially: when It comes to doing her Job. Which, after all, i from a much higher level han the predecessors, and taking for granted etter, a. good dinner cooked by a much that earlier generations had to capable pair of hands, or a. repast faequire in an ever increasing at-Wweenched from a number of tins by /mosphere of surprised enlightenment, delicately manicured fingers? The Britain's Bloodless Revolutl answer is given dally in millions of English homes.
It is in these days of preparation, when middle and old age are holding the tiller until youth is ripe enough The diction of the English working to grasp it, that Brilain is passing girl 1s Improving, at least so far os through one of its silent, and, fort London is concerned. The speech of tunately, bloodless revolutions." The some of the girls operating lifts in Tory of a generation ago would sput-the big department stores is someter with rage at the doctrines which thing of real beauty and a joy to the Conservative of the day has now] listen to, while to listen to a couple taken to himself. There is in_politi-of them' in a tube or a bus ical thought a gradual swing to the suggests that all that is good of the Left—not to Socialism nor to Com Bl pronunciation is permeating jinnnism. There may be reactionaries alt ranks of society and acting as ut even they, consciously or un-0 much of a democratic leveler consciously have modified their out-that it will soon be dificult to say look, and, even though,—perhaps, where one stratum ends and another they hold to some of their doctrines, begins. There is still much affectathere is a realization that change on in speech, but chiefly in circles was not only bound to come, but where it really ceases to matter, and actually upon them and the real dif-even there it appears to be diminference between political parties 10- ishing. day is not so much as to the neces-'There is, 00, a new courtesy! sity for such change but as: to the Jabroad in the Tond, terest, @ willingness to be helpful speed with which it shall be brought} the stranger.
The writer, mis-'The fact 1s that, willy-nilly, it is aken for some reason for an already taking place and Britain no Australian, had Australia House longer stands for things es they were, pointed out to him by the conductor but as they ought and will be, moving of a bw, as If, perhaps, he wished at a speed on which the tortoise to dismount there. On being in-might look with scorn but with a formed of his real destination, the certainty which may ultimately give! whereabouts of which the conduct the hare furiously to think,
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