NO MODERN PEPYS
Hundreds of thousands .of peoplo throughout the country start' keeping diaries on every New Year's Day. And a week later, probably, hundreds of thousands have grown tired of the task and will forget all about it. Five million diaries were sold in ■ England during the last few months of 1932. Who uses them?
A diary manufacturer was able to solve the .problem. "Nobody really uses a diary for the purpose for which it was orginally intended," he said in an interview. "They are mostly used nowadayses books of reference and engagement calendars.
"Boy Scouts, strangely enough, aro the most prolific users of diaries. From us alone they buy 200,000 a year. Business men come next, but they favour the specialised type of diary—the type that contains information applicable to their particular trade. I doubt if there are any modern Pepys today who portray so carefully the incidents of everyday life. People are too busy to do that sort 'of thing. "I believe Mr.* "Winston Churchill keeps : a private diary, which may some day see daylight, and the same applies to a few famous people. But the habit is dying; it is a pity.. Some diaries, which have been properly kept, are invaluable as historical records, as for instance, the diaries of Irving Stone. iQueen Victoria, and Arnold Bennett."
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Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 19
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221NO MODERN PEPYS Evening Post, Volume CXV, Issue 71, 25 March 1933, Page 19
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