ONE OF WAR’S CHANCES.

Taihape Daily Times, 16 April 1919, Page 3

ONE OF WAR’S CHANCES.

Change miay be the note of the moment, but what becomes of social butterflies, male and female, matters not the least. They can well be spared without a national crisis supervening. The social historian of to-day has, however, much to chronicle. B'ond Street loungers and ( bwcll mobsmen have been laughed out of existence long since. Young man, timid, bashful, who approach young ladies and say, “Will you be mine?’ - ’ have disappeared. and this because the young ladies of to-day object to this form of address, and prefer to say to the men of their fancy, “May I be yours?” There arc still a large number of people who think that work ought to roll up to their front doors, and that employers of labour should clamour for their service, notwithstanding that they have no single qualification to do anything properly or efficiently. If only one could banish the creatures whose one dominant thought is, “I shall do as little as I can, because I am not going to be taken advantage of,” then there would be a good hope for England. Yes, these are the folk who are keeping everything back. If there is another class that I wouli like to see disappear it is the people who are so self-centred that they can never yet out of themselves. Luckily, the war has done cue thing which no one prophesied it would do. It has diminished the number of “malades iraaginarics” —the people who make themselves ill in trying to keep well.— “Books of To-day.”