Norwich bulletin., 1919-05-06
Cleaned from Foreign Ex-
 changes

fdrSS QOuDI6u. -IIdtNGu a fair summary of the tramway1 service. in London just now. There is excellent reason for raising the fares, if the trans are not to become burden on the rates, but the people are getting tired of the slovenly service. If there is time table it is ignored, and when ever the line is blocked, which happens on the average once every journey, the men whose business it is to put things l right, go about it with deliberation which is maddening to the unfortunate travelor.
 With the return of the old servants fares are collected with more expedi- ton than By their understudies. But here again is a grievance. All the con- ductors seem to be demobiliZed ser wants who regard passengers as so many recruits, to be licked into shape without delay.
 The suggestion by Y of the congreg- alton of St. James S.. Bermondsey, that smoking should be- allowed in church will doubtless have caused many good l folk to hold up their hands in horror, but, of course, in the god old days 1 smoking in church was quite common practice,
 In fact, prior to the visit of James I, 1 to Cambridge University in 1915, the Vice Chancellor issued a notice to the students enjoying that moe graduate, i scholler or student Of this universitie presume to take tobacco in Saint Marie's churche uppon payne of finall l expillinge the luniversitie." . Sir Walter Scott, too, in the Heart Eof Midlothian refers to an important parsonage who smoked during the l whole of the sermon tobacco borrowed i from other WOrShipDerS.
 l Twenty seven years old may be a l good age for a straw hat, but it is but i a juvenile compared to hat that has
 seen 6S years service. and which is worn daily by an elderly man who i works in a Government office not a great distance as the crow flies, from l Parliament square.
 This hat is of the beaver type, and \ has been handed down to the present pround wearer by his grandfather. The hat is said to look all it's 6S years but has stood the test of time as no modern hat could do.
 So much for hats. But here comes z
 correspondent who possess an overcoat
 which he has worn In the indictment months for the past forty or more years, and it still lcexs newer ant fresher than other coats made many years later"
 It was made in the Great Exhibition year, 1851, by the master tailor of tht
 Carbineer regiment, for an officer whose valet the present wearer was
 and to whom it was bequeathed afte1 , ten years wear. It was taken to MT
 Poole the weii-known tailor. to b' copied but, alas no such cloth, ever T in 1S66 was to be found to equal tha remarkable coat. It was the last O : the Mohicans in coats. And the pre- } sent weaiers is proudest when he dom it, with feet shod in pair of shooting
 boots given to him 50 years ago.
 On the euarterdeek of the Australia ) at Portsmouth the Prince of Vale ) read a message from the King, ex , pressing thanks for tne efforts mad
 in the waT' by ships manned by mel
 of the Commonwealth.
 The Princes visit was made .ap. propriately enough, on the eve of tn departure of the Australian squadron s from Portsmouth. A guard of honou
 from the Australia was furnished t
 his Royal Highness. wno wore tn g uniform of a naval lieutenant, and h : was >piped on board the vessel. d The King, in his message, expreSse
 his pride and pleasure that ships man
 ned by the sons of Australia, in com |. pany with the forces of the Ernpir, - had shared our naval triumphs in thi !, :, worldwide struggle. He hearth Il thanked the Government and the pee
 pie of Australia for their generous pro
 I vision of so valuable a naval force. g To all who had sailed, or were aboI e to sail, back to the great Common # wealth his Majesty wished God-spee
 and happy return to their homes an
 families.
 Sir Joseph Cook Minister for u
 Australian Navy, made a reference
 the manner in which, in these days e stress and danger, had been realize y. the unity and indestructibility of g
 Empire "broadbased upon the people Is will.'
 > Most schools pay more or less ftf. " visits to their local museums. Sailor s- has made such excellent arrange
 ments that most of her school pol
 ulation visits some part of the tow museum during the year.
 'e Between March and October 25 1r last year at least 250 separate grouI SC of children were introduced to u 5e different collections. A definite pr,
 grame is drawn up allotting to eae
 school it's own proper day and hou of so that there is no overlapping ,e confusion.
 ,d The visit is based on a lecture; ~ distinctive label is affixed to .tho u pictures or other objects in the ga
 lery which should receive special a
 tention both during the lecture al w at any subsequent visit.
 SC Tt is hoped,'' says the Scheme f IS Visits that these visits and lectur 1e will create or develop among t
 children a pecial interest in the bo
 ough in which they live; and thu - should be encouraged to make not ~, of their observations both in and o l-' of the museum"
 ,g .', The Jockey clue of which t