The Archive · 1939

An English Failing

And in that connection the London rvansport Bourd have had to make a humiliating confession. They simply feannot. get bus and ta to throw their tickets fept on the floor Litter boxes Provided on the platforms but not One passenger in' a. hundred "ever tes them. "This does not affect the truth of what wes said above about Londoners' respect for thet paris. In' these' the lifer baskets are the whole very well used, But it ili people tenerally are dreadfully untidy. and lay are' almost invisible under picnic papers, newspapers, cigarette cartons and trash of every kind, Tu' Germany and, South Wales people con be fined on the spot, to be the only cure. But untidiness lies at the foot of many' of our short-comings, slovenly cooker; Service of meals for instance. There was a good deal of talk some time about teaching tidiness in the schools, but if attempted it certainly

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