'And before leaving the question, of meat and drink, T would mention that the Board of Education has just announced what 1s called "a nation wide campaign" to improve our cookery. 'The curricula of all public fand elementary girls' schools are to be examined to see how much space they give to instruction In cooking: fand municipal authorities have been circularized on "the need for {urther facilities for young women, both before and after marriage, to obtain guidance and practical Instruction in matters of household _fanagement, more particularly in household cookery." "Why can't they just say, "the ced of housekeeping and cookery lasses for girls"?
But what a paternal Government we do live under, even if they use rather stately language! There seems no branch of life now in which we are not followed and watched and guided by anxious oMeials from Whitehall" or the local Bumbledon, The trouble about this tatest display of care for the consumers is thay It does not start far enough back English "cooks break down because they Jack imagination, That 1s. the frst faculty to cultivate. The materal they have to work on is the best In the world, but It has to be conessed. that Continental cooks beat them by their inventiveness in, dress-Ing up the worst to look ike the Dest, Voltaire's sneer about the nation that has 161 religions but fonly one sauce. The average English Its a waste of the most distressing order, for' the barrenness "is emphasized by grim relicts of what were fence prosperous. shops, dye-works, print-mills, silk Matures, and cotton factories, while the thousands of homes, Wrecked and deserted, tell times which once were comfortable through the gleanings from thriving industry, "tu the now devastated Civic Centre "qemnition bow-wows" decades ago:
fact {t Is believed to have evolved an atmosphere, moral and social as murky os the mud of its physi foundation, but I'm not so sure, we danced. in the aummer prosperity, and not all of us provided for a rainy day—that Is not our way—but no one can say that we are not now facing up fo things in a some beauty in modern development miraculous manner while the kindly, was. formerly showing, also a good ftuman nature of the giving during deal of initiative. Here, in shattered past months has been apparent to all. beauty, we have the direct example One of the reasons for this may be date of "iman's inhumanity to man," that for some years we have been and thinking people are wondering accustomed to hard smacks from un-how the world ever deserves to prom expected quarters, and a little fellowgress when waillke genius can devise feeling makes one wonderous kind: Such hellish treatment for some of man has known when he, like his the most intelligent works of man.
7 neighbour, was going to be knocked bers of refugees who have poured iting isle against which he. cond We have been amazed at the num down idea ninepin fy some surpris: our micht, and. some have wondered not, calcula Shore the many thousands came from "t Of scullion and king, He who has senses to perceive The beauties that ebonnd, What matter though of gold he Not coin, in dank and gloomy vault, But colour, scent and sound.
It is interesting to learn that the writer is young Mr. L. Cecil Tiling worth, the son of Mir, and Mrs, contemporaries when they were not cook's conception of a sauce is rome-'Sera enough to mest her at whist, thing out of a bottle, fs a sexjous rival now of bridge. cre parties, churades are to be the thing.
This Christmas at country house] His Hire Purchase System Eihuve seen several dire sions as 6 Fresh back from a run round tow they thos be Sleds woe Sain, ust to bearm up the Valencia bow they sould be played, some of Governments "Mise Ellen Wilkinson ow "Zone they re snd ly tem stent triumph on Friday of areand mis Mer mcrducing to. Partiament a. Dil "Clumps." (For a first-class descrip: which received the Government' tion of charades, see the account of Whole-hearted blessing. And she a the house party in": me Eyre,"
Socialist, and from Jerrow, the Which Rochester gave to make Jane thought " of which usually makes Jealous of Blanche Ingram), Ama-Ministers get hot under the collar. Your theatrical based on nursery But Miss Wilkinson's Bill, to amend are also going to be popular, the whole system of hire purchase, even harlequinades, which, it had everybody's sympathy. In the may be added, are finding their way ands of a respectable firm hire pur back Into the pantomimes, chase Is useful and free from objec With old amusements, old refreshtion. But it has opened the door to ments find their way back to favour, amount of knavery and hard Newspapers give prizes for the best tment.
-*hut'the trip. suggested will explain numbers, and give some reason for the haggard looks of the driven, cee In in the Bala the Balance this period none can. prophesy what will eventuate in thig city. prophet has so far turned up with much ¢heer, though we have our persistent school of optimists still with us. One must conclude some 'Umes that one half of our immediate world Is living in Hell Itself, and the other halt ina fools' paradise.
Those who have. had eyes to see, and have not been bemused into fore {gotfulness by the progression of goy Ife which had fo some degree per
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