When the Queen, on board =the Empress of Australia, was asked to go on deck and see her thirtieth iceberg, she replied that she was very comfortable inthe warm Jounge and that one iceberg is much like "another." Which only" shows what a sensible woman Her Majesty is, One may well sympathize with the King and Queen., I once took eight days to eross the Atlantic; they will have had 11; and of all soa Journeys the Atlantic is the most boring, the immense luxury of its Miners rather adding to than mitigating the tedium. It is like living cone Unually in the palm garden of a Park Lane hotel.
'Meanwhile the Princesses have been having a tremendous burst of limelight, particularly on a visit to the Zoo,' where the giant panda did all her tricks for their amusement, standing on her head and lying on her back to drink @ bottle of milk; and Princess Elizabeth reproved her sister for giving the elephants too many buns, and immediately afterwards, to Princess Margaret's intense joy, an elephant snatched away the entire bag of buns from her senior.
But even more exciting was the ride inthe underground, from St. James's Parke to Tottenham Court Road and back, with a change at Charing Cross, where they got lost ike many others in the wilderness of escalators and subways, They went Vike the ordinary lieges with their governess and Lady Helen Graham. with no notice given to anyone, and travelling cheek by fowl with char-women and messenger boys, and they were actually not spotted until near-at Tottenham Court Road, tis whelmingly in favour of retaining the use of the "cat." As one woman expresses it with the usual common sense of her sex, "We don't pretend that the eat reforms a criminal; we do say that the fear of it stops him from making a beast of himself." Crimes of violence against "women and children have undoubtedly. increased in recent years, and dimeult not to associate this with the corresponding Lenience shown in the whole treatment of crime. So much sentimentality is" worked up for every criminal, that it would really seem as if his victim were the one to blame for exposing his, as-gallant to temptation, By an odd coincidence, the day after the women's conference, it was reported that a. convict (I think in Chelmsford Gaol, but have mist aid the reference) was flogged for at-ticking a Warder. It is some comfort Not, perhaps, before it was time. the National Fitness Council has decided to send out a questionnaire to 200 women-athletes, to settle the question "Are athletics injurious 10 health 2" Sixteen questions are listed. including habits of smoking. diet, training, nerves, and others, design-Jed to show the effect of athletics, Jany, on future motherhood. Althoush the questions are hardly yet in the post numerous leading tennis players, Ihockey players, cricketers, golfers and swimmers have of course. al-
Feady been interviewed. Some are already as fruitful vines upon some masculine wall. The others are quite certain that they will be equally teapable of the same role when fate sees fit. But the results of the questionnaire will be awaited with Interest. To the lay mind it. would seem to be a matter of the old Greek wisdom, "Nothing in excess." The girls whose names are for ever in the "Papers hunting championships may not injure their health, but they ido acquire a very scorched, wrink-Ted and weather-beaten appearance. ed the tour, "holding fesses should see life not only from palace window, but alco from the standpoint of the crowd. The next adventure should be to give them their Iunch in a City ABC. tone and two o'clock.
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