UNEXPECTED BEAUTY

Dominion, Volume 28, Issue 104, 26 January 1935, Page 23

UNEXPECTED BEAUTY

THE CATHEDRAL ON THE MENU.

“I am very pleased with England,” said the artist, as she stepped out of the Flying Scotsman and handed her friends various things to hold.

“England will be delighted,’’ said the writer. “You remind me of Byron, who said, ‘Roll on, thou deep and dark blue ocean,-roll I’ and the ocean touched its cap and said, ‘Very good, my lord,’ and kept on rolling.”, • As they settled down, among the artist’s impedimenta, in a taxi the musician asked:

“Is it England’s scenery that pleases you?” “Not at the moment,” replied the artist. “What makes me so proud is England’s good taste. Look here 1” She dug in a huge leather bag and produced a quite exquisite etching of Lincoln Cathedral, with wharves and a barge and boys bathing in the foreground. “That,” she said, “is a menu card from the restaurant car. In what other country in the whole world would you find works of art in a restaurant car?” “Nowhere,” they all agreed.

“Do you see that the card is marked Third Class?” continued the artist. “Perhaps,” she exclaimed with enthusiasm, “the golden age is at hand. Perhaps the age of ugliness is over.”