I think perhaps, some peoples abroad are more willing to put up with a lower standard of life than your people are," said a foreign friend to me, "and that must make your Government's foreign policy rather difficult sometimes."
A good deal could be said about what Britons really will put up with at a pinch, as the Great War proved. But if my friend had been with me at the opening of the "Daily Mail" Ideal Home Exhibition, he would certainly have found fresh justification for his view.
Concurrently with the movement which is making every man in England his own house-owner, ingenious minds are perpetually at work to find greater comforts for the house. Every year as I wander round these exhibitions I tell myself that luxury can no farther go. Yet next year there are new devices to charm the eye and save our labour.
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