Frozen out. —Saturday s Storm m the Tie-Cup: The snow-clad ground at Wolverhampton, where the Cup-tie between the Wanderers and the London Caledonians had to be postponed on acccount of the blizzard.
This is essentially the hour of Youth, from the
insurance babies who were dowered with thirty shillings on January 13 (as if to demonstrate that 13 is not an unlucky ” number), and the children
who have been attending fancy dress balls, right up to the youth for whom Lord Haldane outlined the Government’s intentions in the matter of Secondary and University education. The
future, of course, rests with the youth of to-day, and the State (under whatever party) will certainly take increasing surveillance of this great asset.
babies should have been named after the Chancellor (one
of them gets the names Lydia Georgina, being the nearest ” approximation to “ Lloyd
George, ” as if Loi ” was not better) is nothing new. The babies of the very poor are often named after the medical students who have attended them, with the result that you
sometimes get a very common surname preceded by aristo
cratic Christian names. The effect is, of course, ludicrous.
In choosing January 13 for
his big Boxing Day the Chancellor was really harking back to old conditions, as
some of his other “ innovations ” also do, and he had the seasonable approbation of the elements. It is often
said that the modern Christmas, is a “ fraud, ” so far as winter is concerned. But it is not that Christmas has changed: it is that we have changed the date of Christmas,
from January 6 to December 25. Its observation began in the second century in the months of January, April and May, and Armenians still celebrate it on January 18.
Now, January is more wintry than December, so that Dickens and the Christmas cards are true to the old tradition after all. The young year, in fact, is swaddled
The education question is really far more important
than the eternal land problem, It is the welleducated nation that wins. The geographical area called England has not been very much interested in the subject, which it still confuses with contentious side
issues. Lord Haldane, for instance, pointed out that there is one University to
every one and a half millions of the Scots; but in England there is one to every three and a half millions. Mr. Joseph King gave another comparison in the same issue of the Times which reported Lord Haldane, showing that
the ratio of students per 10, 000 of the population is:
9 4; and with us in the United Kingdom only 6.
The Hilary Law Sittings
which opened on Saturday introduced lawyers to the extended Law Courts, which Mr. Oakley illustrates for us in an interesting double page. It is a pity that the charming expanse of green in front of
Clement’s Inn has had to be built upon. On the other
hand, the accommodation of the Law Courts had become very awkward for everybody concerned, and we shall soon forget that there ever was a
greensward at all, just as those of us who remember the Law Courts site fail to reconstruct its old houses and courts from memory. The new arrangement will remove the Divorce Court frequenters from their place on the kerb, which is appropriately next the gutter.
in snow, as the picture at the top of this page proves. The football matches suffered severely from the storm,
but in seme cases the usual cloth-capped audience of youths came cut and sat through blinding drift—wet but happy—to see their beloved gladiators.
A REAL QUEEN AT THE MANSION HOUSE
Queen Amelie of Portugal at the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress’s entertainment to the children of the Queen Alexandra League.
A CHILDREN S COSTUME CARNIVAL: SOME CHARACTERS AT THE LORD MAYOR’S JUVENILE FANCY DRESS BALL AT THE MANSION HOUSE
A Butcher: Ian Pirie. Rosalind: Miss Beryl Hitchin, Russian Dancer: Miss Mylius, Freemason: Miss Sylvia Fraenkel. A Butterfly: Miss Madge Jacobs. Mephistopheles: Kenneth Walcy.
This is essentially the hour of Youth, from the
insurance babies who were dowered with thirty shillings on January 13 (as if to demonstrate that 13 is not an unlucky ” number), and the children
who have been attending fancy dress balls, right up to the youth for whom Lord Haldane outlined the Government’s intentions in the matter of Secondary and University education. The
future, of course, rests with the youth of to-day, and the State (under whatever party) will certainly take increasing surveillance of this great asset.
That many of the insurance
babies should have been named after the Chancellor (one
of them gets the names Lydia Georgina, being the nearest ” approximation to “ Lloyd
George, ” as if Loi ” was not better) is nothing new. The babies of the very poor are often named after the medical students who have attended them, with the result that you
sometimes get a very common surname preceded by aristo
cratic Christian names. The effect is, of course, ludicrous.
In choosing January 13 for
his big Boxing Day the Chancellor was really harking back to old conditions, as
some of his other “ innovations ” also do, and he had the seasonable approbation of the elements. It is often
said that the modern Christmas, is a “ fraud, ” so far as winter is concerned. But it is not that Christmas has changed: it is that we have changed the date of Christmas,
from January 6 to December 25. Its observation began in the second century in the months of January, April and May, and Armenians still celebrate it on January 18.
Now, January is more wintry than December, so that Dickens and the Christmas cards are true to the old tradition after all. The young year, in fact, is swaddled
The education question is really far more important
than the eternal land problem, It is the welleducated nation that wins. The geographical area called England has not been very much interested in the subject, which it still confuses with contentious side
issues. Lord Haldane, for instance, pointed out that there is one University to
every one and a half millions of the Scots; but in England there is one to every three and a half millions. Mr. Joseph King gave another comparison in the same issue of the Times which reported Lord Haldane, showing that
the ratio of students per 10, 000 of the population is:
in France, 10; in Germany,
9 4; and with us in the United Kingdom only 6.
The Hilary Law Sittings
which opened on Saturday introduced lawyers to the extended Law Courts, which Mr. Oakley illustrates for us in an interesting double page. It is a pity that the charming expanse of green in front of
Clement’s Inn has had to be built upon. On the other
hand, the accommodation of the Law Courts had become very awkward for everybody concerned, and we shall soon forget that there ever was a
greensward at all, just as those of us who remember the Law Courts site fail to reconstruct its old houses and courts from memory. The new arrangement will remove the Divorce Court frequenters from their place on the kerb, which is appropriately next the gutter.
in snow, as the picture at the top of this page proves. The football matches suffered severely from the storm,
but in seme cases the usual cloth-capped audience of youths came cut and sat through blinding drift—wet but happy—to see their beloved gladiators.
A REAL QUEEN AT THE MANSION HOUSE
Queen Amelie of Portugal at the Lord Mayor and Lady Mayoress’s entertainment to the children of the Queen Alexandra League.
A CHILDREN S COSTUME CARNIVAL: SOME CHARACTERS AT THE LORD MAYOR’S JUVENILE FANCY DRESS BALL AT THE MANSION HOUSE
A Butcher: Ian Pirie. Rosalind: Miss Beryl Hitchin, Russian Dancer: Miss Mylius, Freemason: Miss Sylvia Fraenkel. A Butterfly: Miss Madge Jacobs. Mephistopheles: Kenneth Walcy.