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Dominion, Volume 1, Issue 24, 23 October 1907, Page 10

The subject of profanity was being discussed one evening at a dinner parry in Ifailem. When one of tho guests facetiously' hinted that his host could,tenr it,off a little when no women were present, the hostess became indignant. " 1 would have you understand,' , sho saiil, with . crushing dignity, " that my husband never snys anything before ladies that he wouldn't say anywhere." She is still wondering why it was that everybody laughed.

Eton's loss of the .famous switching block, which has recently been stolen, will no doubt tempt some well-intentioned humanitarian to revive the suggestion that the time-honoured form of punishment at the college should be abolished. It has even been said that a picturo of tho operation in an illustrated paper would at once put an end to the practice. But. it is significant that complaints havo never come from Etonians or their parents: indeed, is there not the historic remark of a Marquis, of Granby. to his sons who had .c----volted and returned home because their rle.isure had hoeii curtailed, that they should go to the theatre that evening for their pleasure, and on the morrow return to Eton to bo flogged for his 1