Judge — May 31, 1924 — page 31: what you’re looking at

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Mistress—Now look here, cook, I wish to make myself perfectly plain— Cook (under notice)—You shouldn't Terrible Henry Ford vs. Turk Continued from page 19) the of the English Empire. Anybody who can read his book without a grin, and a thrill, must be a strange sort of person, Even the Irish will like it, being also a brave and humorous people. Yuen there is the other sort of E: nglish- man. “Unconventional Memorie by Ralph Nevill (Doran & Co.), is a price- less record of this breed. An Trishman will like this hook, too— it will confirm all his prejudices. Nevill went to Eaton. “Perhaps,” he “the benefit of an Eton education was best: summed up by Dr. Hornby. An old Eatonian having been heard to say that he r did not know what good an Eton education had the headmaster remarked, ‘Of does not that is the ANS, course he know; beauty of it.” ‘Phe only incredible part of this story is tonian ever doubted the value One is reminded of that recent address by J. M. Barrie, in which he said that the luates of Eton, Harrow and Rugby appear to acquire rtain something,” and advocated distributing “slabs of this something” to other and less favored schools. But, after all, who are we Lo cast the first stone? We have our Groton and St. Mark's. One thing we Nevill did not acquire at Eton, and that is a knowledge Not infrequently his sentences are painful even to a mere American educated in a high school at the public expense. When Nevill got up to Cambridge he evidently lived a life which makes the flask toting sophomores of current Ameri- ion look like members in good standing of the Junior Anti-Saloon League. ‘The Beefsteak Club never had more than five members; sometimes there were only two. There was a re: These members wore at club meetings “a blue cutaway of his education. are sure of English grammar. son. find that hard. coat with brass buttons, buff waistcoat, and a bull’s-head pin in the tie.” “Phere was a standard form of wine glass, which at every toast had to be drained ata gulp, bumpers being obligatory, with the almost inevitable result of a bad headache the next day. Delicate men could not face the ordeal at all.” (Port was the bever- age, by the way.) When he wasn’t din- ing with the Beefsteak Club or some similar group, Nevill was evidently at- tending the races, or riding in steeple- chases. There is no record that he ever attended a lecture. He does admit that he read some—perhaps between head- aches. Later in life the recipient of this aca- demic nurturing was attached to em- bassies in Madrid and Persia, and also visited Japan. His adventures with blue bloods, females of a pink rather than a blue tint, and food, bulk large in his memory. We recommend the book to those who want to how the other half lives—or did live before the war. Again, however, we refrain from casting We read too recently a book see any stones. of reminiscences by our own Mrs. Borden Harriman, which was still more snobbish and silly and piffling. ‘The breed is about the same, whether in a monarchy, or a so- called democratic land, and whether edu- cated at Eton or Miss Spence’s. J E. Sprxcary, formerly a professor at * Columbia, and a literary critic of distinguished accomplishment, has issued his “Poems,” through Hareourt, Brace & Co. In of his Cavalier ditties, in which the supposed singer of the song clopes with a lady, pursued by the irate husband, the good professor first rimes “wood” and “mud,” and then com- mits this couplet: His jealousy! Who cares a feather? That night we went to bed together. At least there is nothing obscure about this. 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