No "Starch" Wanted.
Mi* Harold Begbio tells in the January "Woman at Home" that when Dr. Ingram, the Bishop of London, first went as Bishop to tfie East End, ho discovered that tho people regarded him with marked disfavour; they not only avoided him, bui they openly turned their backs ca him and plainly manifested a vigorous disapproval. A friendly old woman told the reason of this enmity. "Bishop," ehe said, "it's your white shirt. We don't want no white-shirtod gentry here. Couldn't you, now, wear a grey shirt and a dickey, same as our chaps do on Sunday?" From tlnat "hour the Bishop got rid of the starch from his shirts.
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Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 February 1913, Page 4
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112No "Starch" Wanted. Horowhenua Chronicle, 13 February 1913, Page 4
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