London, Sept. 13.
Seriousness is reported sweeping, over the country houses, projecting its shadow on the approaching Little Season. Discussion of the. day's shoot at dinner gives place to grave consideration of the state of the country. Important ladies whose lorders cannot be ignored—there are still one or two successors of the Duchess of Wrexe—are preparing lecture courses for the young people, classes in Air Raid Precautlor raining in polities and election can-wassing. These things must not be eft to the Left-Wingers and the Pink Intellectuals, or what will become Jot the country?
The truth is, one suspects, that having "ad "an exceptionally dall iminer season, after" the. natural forder of things people want 10 sce Row much duller" they can make the autumn. Then next year there will probably bea violent reaction, yet all sides life moves to. @ more Sober rhythm. A lecture agent whom 1 low tells me that he has ever nown such "demand for Tecturers of sola equipment. in tubes and buses one may see Joung its, who a year ago would have been reading thrillers, now absorbed {mn treatises On the nutritive value of tinny fish or the racial, inequalities of Central India. And. a8 for Knit: ting, though it has been a steady obit Yor some years now, itis pure fied with positive fever.' One firm of knitting-needle makers claims. 10 be makeing 30000 pairs of neetes very wee, and. makers of wool, Wworsteds and silks are equally busy. When T'was a chitd 1 sed to think the. periodical visits with. liao oF moines to, the. Toeal" wool shop Berlin, wool and. Scotch fingering trove ity apecilitiens how "dark Was and how sty It smelt—the ieriet expedition of the week, But the young generation now flat ver ouch displays like a wicked nobleman ogling the innocent village
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