Yet we afe rapidly developing the eyes of cats or owls. A naval friend once told me that young officers Who went to sea for the first time in the last war were quite confused when peace came and they had to navigate with lighted ships. I can believe it.
This week my homeward were unable to give their show because some preposterous rule of the. London County Council forbade them to.put on any make-up, without which their turn was impossible. I cannot get an authoritative explanation of this absurdity. But apparently if you black your face or wear a false beard, your show becomes theatrical, but not otherwise. Miss Monica' Whateley, one of the Labour veterans of the L. C. C, is to raise the question at the next meeting in order to get the ban rescinded. But I have very little doubt she will fail.
The number of people in this country who, unfortunately being invested with a little brief authority, try to force all their neighbours to the Procrustean frame of their own idea of virtue is always the amazement of other nations. The Chief Inspector of Police at Huddersfield has been trying to persuade the local magistrates not to allow dancing on Boxing Day to go on till 2 am. His argument was that the dancers would not be able to do their work properly next day. He evidently does not know much about itt it is not the next morning that One is tired after a dance, but the next night. The magistrates seem to have known this and they allowed the 2 am, dancing.
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