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WOMAN’S WORLD
By CLIO
…it is interesting to see how a writer recently on the vexed question of manners, sums up the position. He takes for his text a delightful little half-page in a recent “Punch”, showing an up-to-date governess in the shortest and skimpiest of garments, cigarette in mouth, sprawling on a sofa, and a pretty little pupil making the pathetic request, “Oh, Miss Gazzleton, do tell us a story about the time when there were ladies and gentlemen and not old beans and things.” The writer says that a hundred years or more ago the manners of the English upper class were coarse, and now they are merely vulgar, which, so far, is an improvement.
The Mercury 1922
Rowland looked up from his notebook as Wilfred and Clapton walked in. Edna was coiled on the couch beside him with
