By Ouve Dex and the training will be completed in three months, that being regarded as the average length of an engagement.
Apart from class work, the brides will be conducted to museums, to famous old houses, to the carpet and tapestry departments of the great furnishing shops, and even it is said, to that centre of fakes and fal-ials, the Caledonian market in order to test their tastes in picking up antiques and their instinct for detecting brummagem. But surely three months is a very little time in which tu teach the girls how to evade the wiles of curio-dealers.
How differently they do these things in Germany. There a decree has tately been proclaimed by Herr von Schirach, Reich Youth Leader, that all girls who are members of the Hitler Maidens' organization must go through a period of household training, a sort of equivalent of the labour service which all young men have to perform before their army training. Not only domestic arts but work in farms and hospitals is to be taught to the girls. Life is real, life is earnest in Germany. We frivolous Londoners laugh. But some think it would not be a bad thing if similar rules were enforced in England, particularly for the men. home of the Howards till the end of the 17th century. An earlier Arundel Hotel was praised by Dickens as "among the best and finest in the town." The present one is a quiet comfortable hostelry, little known to the general public, but beloved by country lawyers for its nearness to the Law Courts, and having also a regular country, or rather county, clientele, like some other inconspicuous London hotels. I stayed in one of them once, and really felt I had committed a gross error in not obtaining an introduction beforehand. At one time that meditative body, the Flyfishers Club, had rooms in the Arundel, but they have long ago moved io Piccadilly. Whether ti younger generation of "the count; want something more frivolous, or are too poor now to stay in hotels, I don't know. But the site on the Embankment is to be "redeveloped"
—that loathsome word—with more unnecessary offices, and so exit the quiet old inn.
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