Presupices die hard here—almost as hard as centenarians who live in insanitary cottages on ten shillings a week.
Therefore, I am not surprised, says Nat Gubbins in the "Sunday Express," to learn from Mr, Anthony Bertram, the housing expert, that English people dislike flats because "they are inhabited by actresses, lords, and foreigners."
The conviction that actresses are immoral will never be entirely eliminated from the English mind. Only the few who know them intimately are aware that they are the most scrupulously moral and hard-working women in the community, The prejudice mentioned against lords is not because they are lords but because they live in fla's. The English, who love their lords better even than their cricket, football, and greyhound racing, like to think of lords living in ancestral mansions surrounded by adoring retainers.
When they descend to flat life they lose their glamour and aloof mystery. It is also suspected that there is something funny going on with the actresses.
And regarding the prejudice against foreigners, that is almost too well-known to be worth mentioning.
Although we do not exactly dislike them we cannot help feeling they are odd and peculiar, the nicest of us having a sort of protective feeling about them, mingled with a vague curiosity, In fact, we are as interested in the foreign species as we are in the Giant Panda—except that most foreigners are not so cuddly.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.