BANK FOOLISHNESS.
Two hundred young people at a smart society birthday patty in London resolved to spend a long and carefree evening in behaving like little children. They succeeded better than they knew. Not only did they dress like nurslings and babies, to the extent cf riding in perambulators, sucking at feeding-bottles, and playing with rattles; they displayed to the life the mentality of infants. Science tells us that every baby that comes into the world, even if it be destined to become a Shakespeare or a Newton, is born an idiot in point of brain development. How wonderfully lifelike were the impersonations given by many of these of young sprigs of society 1 “ Back-to-childl.ood ” parties and dances are nothing new. They have often been indulged in by persons who have thought dignity well lost for fun. Probably everybody knows the wise old couplet which tells us:
“ A little nonsense now and then Is relished by the wisest men.” But surely a little healthy jollity, spiced with reasonable frivolity, is far different from such humourless exhibitions as that given at the London party.
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Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 8
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183BANK FOOLISHNESS. Putaruru Press, Volume VII, Issue 301, 15 August 1929, Page 8
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