'This is the time of year when, with ttle else doing, we all fall to' eriticling each other. The modern girl comes frst, of course—when did she fnot?—the "Dally Telegraph" giving [prominence to a letter by Lady Dun-alley, who declares that in spite of fall the advantages. won for her in the past few decades "the position of women now is far lower than it was in Victorian days." But this is because she so deplorably cheapens ey" mist "pander to Women are no, longer sweet and ud denunciations of the sins of Society. Against Lady Dunalley 1 could quale halfeadozen ladies. of equal age who maintain that the girl of today {s avast improvement hor of the past, being in particular much kinder and ess catty.
Our next critic is @ sanitary in" spector, speaking, at a conference of his fellows in Edinburgh, who declaimed against, the "rush counter" fan "quick lunch" habit. But where You have enormous conglomerations of men and girls, as In the city, all having to get. their lunches ina Single' hour, and get them cheaply, what. can you expect? The old re-Commendation for eating oystere—"chew the bivalve 36 times and eject what remains"—is good for all foods (except for the ejection part) but like many' other things available only for ihe leisurely well-to-do.
Last eritielsm of all comes from the Headmasters' Conference, where Mr. Gorton of Blundell's strongly criticized the method of teaching religion to boys, and incidentally to girls. Mr. Gorton put it rather well in saying that, in' his experience "they {tho [young folk) will not eritcize: Chris-unity Dut. will always criticize. the [Church, Directly you begin to. talk to a boy about the Church, his moral fears fy back." Most of us can think for young people who never go to church, yet, If you got into their confidence, you find that "they are intensely interested in religion.
the stereotyped formality of the ordinary church service which bores them and the very beauty of the Lituray is a snare: how much of it one can repeat mechanically while thinking of something quite diftercent, Yet if there were no fixed form of service, the whole management of {he Church might fall to pleases Ellen Terry's Letters A number of letters by Ellen Tetey were sla at austen this wel andi" ate. pathic to hile that the price "only "averaged a piece, at which they were bought her laugher, isn 'Baith Graig Of course Bilen Terry was' nek ror freional writer Yet the letters con. {sin same Goughts hat are worth Femembering a8 for Inntance!
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