Norwich bulletin., 1919-09-23
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No one has yet told us why hand kerchiefs are square, but a reader re- fore the early part of the 18th cen- tury, Venice being the place where they made their first appearance
 Otto Fichel German authority. tadopt the new idea They first used them in 1880. and soon afterwards sumptuary laws were enacted in most German states forbidding any person %Of p1ebian birth from blowing his nose with a handkerchief.
 This restriction remained in force for over 200 years. and was enforced even on the stage. So recently as 17e0 an actress was of1icially reprimanded for disregarding it in a Berlin theatre She excused herself by pleading that she had not used a handkerchief, only "a little linen rag"
 SehooInasters who forbid their pu- pills to wear soft collars should study the manifesto issued by Leighton F'rooks, founder and president of the Anti Collar league. which has a large membership in the United States
 MT Frooks maintains that when man bares his neck he sharpens his wits, for collars stop the free flow of blood to the brain. No author ever wrote anything worth reading when wearing a collar. President Wilson ming his messages. And Edison has to take off his collar before he can invent anythings
 MT. Frooks goes on to say that
 there are few men who do not wish al some time or other collars were never invented and there he happens on great truth.
 The opposition to Waaner's music in Paris recalls the outcry against it's production in this country 40 years ago.
 English opposition, however. seems to have been not patriotic. but relig- ious, for pr. Hueffer, musical critic of the Times in the early '1es. records many letters. almost all denouncinx the new music as ''blasphemous." and Threatening him with anyting from duckine in a horsepond to beating to death if he continued to uphold it.
 King Victor Emranuai of Italy, who a s made so splendid a gift to his peo- ple. is a living advertisement of the benefits of a Spartan education
 He was very delicate child and his father determined on. a Spartan natural deiicacy. There was no relax ation of the code laid down.
 One dismal morning it was repre- sented to his tutor that he had cold. and had better not take his usual ride If there were war" said the old mar tinet. would the prircn stay at home bernuse he had a cold?'
 "There Is no arguine with these old soldiers" said the doctor, as he sub mitted.
 word to manufacturers: There is one thing which ought to be said very plainly and at once to British n1anu- lecturers who are complaining of the restoration of German and Austrian competition. The British consumer is not going to pay more for an inferior article simply because the profiteer behind it is British. If the Americans, who are said to be again importing
 
 they can sell their textiles in the world markets more readily than the British textile manufacturers who are strictly confined to the use of British dyes. British, in self protection. to import German dyes also. If our lens makers cannot sell lenses at less than four or five times the price of highly satisfac- world will preserve them even the home market indefinitely. It is noto- rious that the ordinary household glass which took the place of the Aus trian glass in this country in the early years of the war was not only much imported glass.
 The German piano has a good name. and if the British piano manufacturer wishes to hold the piano market given must not increase the price so much as the quality So with toys. We are not toy making people. because our factory laws discourage cottage indus tries. in the disgusting conditions of which the Austrian toy industry has prospered. But the child customer does not consider these dreary eco monies. and unless our expensive and f1yqienic factories contrive to turn out such ingenious and "a artistfc toys as the sweated s1ums of Vienna they will not force our vast army of children to support them because they are British i What ali our manufacturers should set l themselves to do Is to give us better | article at a lower prfce.-The London | Chronicle.
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