GLAMOUR.

Hokitika Guardian, 23 January 1928, Page 1

GLAMOUR.

Glamour, “the end of a goßlen string,” is not confined to the world of imagination conjured up hy the dreams of other men. It is a certain something in ourselves, a sudden meeting with beauty and its reflection in our souls; the first exquisite touch of pleasure, half pain, that is lost alter prolonged contact with even the most beautiful. See a street procession; soL diers in red coats swinging along against a back ground of grey stone, a band playing, the regular tread harmonising with its notes, and the crowds lining the roadway are moved by something which they cannot describe. Scan their faces and you will seo that the glamour of colour, of music, and of symmetry, has left its mark upon them. There are many things which mean little or nothing to most people, but they arouse emotions and feelings in some of us, of which we do not speak. Their glamour is heightened because they belong to us alone, and because we have no sharers in our “secret bread.” t\e think of glamour as that which awakens and enkindles the imagination, sometimes for a moment but often to last as long as the eyes of the mind can sec.—M. Black in “The Bermondsey Book.”

A BLOW TO KAISER ISM. Everything in Germany nowadays seems mixed up with politics, even golf. An election to the committee of what is said to be the most expensive golf club in Europe would’ not strike us here as a likely occasion for a political demonstration, but it ended in one at Wan nsec, the favourite resort of Berlin pleasure-makers. It is true that the candidate for committee membership was no less a person that the oxCrown Prince. That gentleman certainly has his enemies, but one would not expect to find them in an ultrafashionable club. All tlie trouble arose about his description. He was recommended by bis proposers as “Crown Prince”—a title clearly illegal in Republican Germany—and a Republican enthusiast who is already on the committee at once demanded eitflier that the description he withdrawn or the candidate he not elected. He had no objection to Herr von Hohcnzollorn personally or as golfer, but lie would have no Crown Prince as fol-low-commitoeman. Both sides canvassed with zeal and the club was rent in twain, until it became so clear that the Republicans were winning that the ex-Crown Prince, rather than alter his description, decided to withdraw his candidature. Presum ably pence regins once again at W an usee. The “Manchester Guardian.”

THE EDUCATION OF WOMEN. It. is commonly supposed that the new regime has created a typo of gill much superior in health and capacity to the “fainting miss” of early Victorian or Georgian days. This is a complete delusion. The women of the nineteenth and latter eighteenth century period were certainly Toss masculine and loss fit for sport or business life than the modern girl; but they wore extraordinarily vital and capable in their own sphere of life, fn maternity they suffered less than the wife of to-day, and were better able to nurse their children. Me know that they mothered a race of great personalities. There is every reason to believe that the efficiency of the modern girl in all sorts of masculine occupations and sports has been paid toi with a high price. Nature has built up the physique and nervous system of woman with a view, primarily, to her racial functions, which require a large potential energy ; and when girls are unduly “forced,” or when they develop a masculine robustness of muscle (unnecessary for women), much of the nervous force which should remain stored up for future racial uses is either used up or deflected into other channels. —Meyrick Bootli in “The Nineteenth Century and After.”