THE ENGLISH GIRL.

Shannon News, 11 October 1929, Page 2

THE ENGLISH GIRL.

“BUT WHEN SHE IS BAD, SHE IS

HOKKID.”

(Published in the “Daily Mail. ”) LONDON, Tuesday.

Whether the modern English girl is as good or bad as she paints herself, two specimens created an unfavourable impression ]iu hifistocratic circles §n Hungary. A lady who invited them to her country house wrote to the “Daily Mail” from Budapest, saying that they were Londoners, aged 10 and 13. Their untidiness was enough, especially the powder which they dispersed on the bedroom floor. ' “Their appqtitc was augmented by the change of air,?’ said their hostess. “They couldn’t wait for lunch and went to the kitehen and ate what they found. They fought with my cook who would not suffer it.

The elder one was a beauty, but also a coquette, as nice girls are everywhere. She spent all her pocket-money on cosmetics. They knew Vilnia Banky, but thought that Queen Victoria died two years ago. In their liveliness they threw my mother, a lady of 70, on the bed and tickled hex*.”