Such is the description of this fne White ermine coat with silver fox sleeves. the local beauty parlour if you do not want to emerge looking like a Christmas pudding.
I suppose 1 might not suggest that it is quite possible to enjoy the summer without rivalling the Red Indian, and that the simplest way of getting the skin white is to keep it white? But that would be too Victorian, Catchy Headlines The British Association now meeting at Nottingham may be full of super-charged craniumis grey beards amd hygienic underdotting, but when it comes io publicity it has the snfartest American advertisement manager beat to a frazzle. It always is careful to meet at the season when newspapers are crying out for copy, and it is an adept at expressing scientific speculations in catchy headlines.
Naturally there has been much about dwindling population. By 1945 there will be 50,000 fewer brides and the population of Great Britain having reached its peak will rapidly to about 5,000 by the end of the century. Why it should stabilize itself at that figure, and not, having by 10 per cent.
Dr. Lawrence Browne a distinguished Arabic scholar, produced a modern Elijah. He doubted the story of the ravens bringing bread and flesh every day to the prophet, but said that he knew personally of a Christian convert from Islam having been saved from starvation by d Kite dropping some food at the critical moment. So he might have been kinder to the ravens.
Mr. H. G. Wells got a tremendous amount of lime-light with his denunciation of our "Note-and-corner" method of teaching history. Every child is brought up to believe that the progress of mankind revolves entirely about the doings of iis own country. "The crazy combative pa-triorism that plainly threate: destroy civilization to-largely. begotten by the school-ruster and school mistress in their teaching of history. Equally mischievous is the furtive anti-patriotism of the leftist teacher." Mr, Wells wants to have history, taught on the scale of a comprehensive survey of all the human race, -With little regard for geographical division kings and chronicles, but everything about social development and inventions, biology and physics. But Mr. Wells is an out-and-out-internationalist and most of us cannot attain unto it.
in general the lectures suggest two thoughts, one, the familiar one that we have not yet nearly had time to adjust ourselves to the earthquaking inventions of recent years, radios, aeroplanes, motor cars, cinemas, all violently impinging, on our daily habits; and the other that our clever men are so absorbed in analyzing the phenomena of life, that they have forgotten life itself. They seem like children continually digging up the seeds in their gardens to see if they sre growing. If the British Empire is to go down into the dust for want of children, it will do so as other empires have done. But the spirit ai the age, so-called, has already known such marked changes since the war, the effects of which are still so visible in various ways, that
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