From the pictures we went down to tea, in a Renaissance dungeon, approached by winding stone steps match. However, the waitresses re' anything but dungeonlike, stout, cheerful women who might have been models, say, for Rubens, and the meal was good and substantial, But anything more completely like what the irreverent associate. with the words "Royal Academy" you cannot imagine.
It is curious, by the way, how few really good ta-rooms there are London. 'There are hosts where yo can adequately satisfy hunger and rst, 'There are the very expensive' ones which make you feel like a set {or q St, James's Theatre comedy in George Alexander's day. I only know one "where they really understand how to cut thin bread and butter, which Is Indispensable to a real tea, Generally "they choose the wrong bread and prepare numbers of slices Jong before they have to be eaten. But afternoon tea' is essentially a hing for the privacy of one's own home, Tf is not even quite the same in another person's home and" the split of it Ales altogether in the rough and tumble of a public tearoom.
Mbs K. Mroz The Youth association in Shanghai, an association which devotes itself to 1 spread" of ational culture But how perfectly ridiculous, are ait our faves on eating and drinking in this "weels. "Punch." Ar.
'Herbert, inno oe his' "itis directed Cosen" proves that where a sandwich {S'ordared to cnabte the customer 40 fet a drink at a tune when he could for have one without tomethingful= tinge tre Tegal detnition of a meal, would be perfectly lawful to serve 1 have heard that the United States statute Book is congested with multi tudes of views often. far more Fidleulows than ours, which Congress. en have, somehow "get posied. fonder to prove to their constituents hat whey are ative, But in America hey have too much sense to enforce fail this. ubblsh. Here," we "untor= itnately allow the misguided Jeyisn {lon of busybodies and killjoys to, be tate as seriously ar they take theme Bishops On Babies A the Convocation of Center' fast week the Bishops debated 9 ques tion of great interest to parents and godparents, namely how to hold. a Baby when christening i The Bishop jor frure objected. to the. baptismal Service forming part ofa large service tense the bony 20 often eried and aisturoed the propriety of ings. The Bishop o¢ Sellzvury replied. that the baby "did. not ery if properly" el Both Bishops, i may be mentioned, fave several sons and daughters. "The [Archbishop of Canterbury said that it the infant behaved with reasonable fiserotion, no. service "was more eautfu than the baptismal You wil not be surprised to hear that the last observation has started general controversy, with people expressing opinions of the doctrine original "sin, included in. the Skptismar service whom one would Hardly have suspected of ever having Feat it, On the beauty of the service one can well agree. with the 'Archbishop: you cannot open a. page the Prayer: Book (except perhaps the "thiriyenine "Articles, some'
hich "are. positively unChrstian) tlthout being impressed. by. its un Cquallea "loveliness. As" for" the ddeivine of original sin, anyone who fies had to do with small children fwoulde agree' that it is nota Imatler" of theological dogma but of Unalterable fact. "So it may as Well appear in'vie service as not.
"But as for babies erying when christened, what of the old belief that file isle sign that the devil Is being fviven out of them? in fact allan Peasant. mothers will surreptitiously Pincha baby to make i ery 1 does for do go naturally, for the sake of the good omen "The Law's An Ass"
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